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  • Tags: The 1970s

This article reports that Jack Lynch (54 years old) started an "Adopt-a-Wolf" program to help fund care of his wolves. For $20, an adopter will get their name on a plaque on a wolf pen, receive unlimited visiting privileges, a color photo of their adopted wolf, and a brochure. Since starting the…
Date: January 11, 1978

This article reports that the Colorado Division of Wildlife has denied Ed Andrews, the president of the Wolf Country Foundation in Boulder, CO, a permit to bring 200 of Alaska's 12,000 wolves to Colorado to spare them from a planned hunt. A Colorado wildlife officer stated that anyone (except a zoo)…
Date: December 7, 1979

This article reports that Mr. and Mrs. Jack Lynch run a 40-acre wolf preserve on Washington's Olympic Peninsula where lobo wolves are kept in 40-by-80-foot pens in the woods. The history of the lobo wolf and the park are described, as is the move to Washington, during which 20 wolves were flown to…
Date: June 24, 1972

This article reports that Jack Lynch is opposed to plans for development near his wolf park (which is referred to as the "Pacific Wolf Preserve") because sewage and water lines would mean higher tax levies which Lynch cannot afford. He has tried to get fellow landowners to oppose the plans.…
Date: December 7, 1978

This article reports that Jack and Margie Lynch care for more than 100 wolves on a 40-acre preserve on Washington's Olympic Peninsula. They keep lobo wolves and six other subspecies, and their goals are to save the lobo wolf from extinction, research the wolves, and educate the public about them.…
Date: August 21, 1975

An interview with Dr. Randall L. Eaton regarding his 1974 Pacific Search Press article "The Lonely Plight of the Lobo Wolves."
Date: November 25, 2013

This article reports that Jack Lynch is moving his wolf pack from Route 6 near Kane, PA to Gardiner, WA. The move was caused by difficulty in obtaining food for the 53 wolves (which eat three steers a week) and I-80 rerouting tourist traffic away from the park. Jack fears he will no longer get the…
Date: February 13, 1972

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This photograph depicts Jack Lynch and John Shetler loading a wolf into a trailer to be moved from the lobo wolf park's location along Route 6 five miles east of Kane, PA to a new location in Gardiner, WA.
Date: February 1972

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This photograph depicts Jack Lynch and John Shetler loading a wolf into a trailer to be moved from the lobo wolf park's location along Route 6 five miles east of Kane, PA to a new location in Gardiner, WA.
Date: February 1972

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This photograph depicts Jack Lynch with a wolf on a leash, and John Shetler at Jack Lynch's lobo wolf park, located along Route 6 five miles east of Kane, PA. Another wolf can be seen in the pens, and a sign hangs on the gate into the pens which says "keep out" with a skull. Judging by Jack's outfit…
Date: February 1972

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This photograph depicts at least seven wolves and Jack Lynch at his "Loboland USA" wolf park in Gardiner, WA. This photograph has "June 1974" written on the back, so I assume it was taken in June 1974 and developed in January 1975.
Date: June 1974

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This photograph depicts Jack Lynch leaning over a wolf with a syringe in his mouth, sedating the wolf so that it can be put in a trailer to be moved from the lobo wolf park's location along Route 6 five miles east of Kane, PA to a new location in Gardiner, WA. Judging by Jack's outfit, I believe…
Date: February 1972

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This photograph depicts Jack Lynch leaning over a wolf with a syringe in his mouth, sedating the wolf so that it can be put in a trailer to be moved from the lobo wolf park's location along Route 6 five miles east of Kane, PA to a new location in Gardiner, WA. Judging by Jack's outfit, I believe…
Date: February 1972

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This photograph depicts Jack Lynch in the back of his truck with chicken necks to feed the wolves at his buffalo wolf preserve, located in Gardiner, WA.
Date: Between 1977 and 1979

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This photograph depicts John Holland (a member of the board of the Dr. E. H. McCleery Buffalo Wolf Foundation) with the wolf named Idiot Elliot on his back at Jack Lynch's buffalo wolf preserve, located in Gardiner, WA.
Date: Between 1977 and 1979

This article reports that in February, Jack Lynch will move the wolves to a site near the Olympic National Park in Washington. He had been considering a move for the past few years because planned highway changes will diminish tourism potential, and meat for the wolves has been difficult to obtain.…
Date: January 17, 1972

This article profiles Jack Lynch (54 years old), the keeper of the last of the lobo wolves, of which he currently owns 72. He has an additional 26 wolves of five other subspecies. Lynch describes the lobo subspecies as Canis lupus nubilus, whose historic range overlapped with Canis lupus irremotus,…
Date: November 5, 1979

Letter from Jack Lynch to the editorial staff of the Kane Republican. Lynch recently learned Edward Andrews' visit to Kane earlier this year, during which time he claimed to represent the Dr. E. H. McCleery Lobo Wolf Foundation. Andrews stole slides and tape-recordings from Lynch's home in Gardiner,…
Date: December 28, 1979

This article reports that Bil Gilbert has earned his third Penney-Missouri Magazine Award. Gilbert's most recent article appears in the same issue and profiles Jack Lynch and his work with buffalo wolves. Gilbert greatly admires Lynch, and this article offers an additional anecdote from Gilbert's…
Date: November 5, 1979

A lengthy letter from Curtis J. Carley, a concerned member of the Wolf Specialist Group, to several newspaper editors regarding articles that recently appeared in their newspapers about Ed Andrews and the Wolf Country Foundation (located in Washington with plans to relocate near Fort Collins, CO).…
Date: December 28, 1979