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A letter from Richard Coleman, editor of the Kane Republican, to Jack and Mary Lynch (he got their address from their friend Jim Sirianni). Coleman mentions that each year, the Kane Republican distributes a calendar featuring a local picture to its customers. The most popular calendar featured Dr.…
Date: December 8, 1986

This excerpt covers the section of the book called "The Wolf." It contains two photos - one credited to "E. H. McCleery" and captioned "Wolves, seldom seen now, once ranged over many parts of North America." The other is credited to "Leonard K. Beyer" and is captioned "A captive wolf." Presumably,…
Date: 1986

This article appears in the sensational tabloid the Weekly World News. It profiles Jack Lynch (57 years old), who owns a 250-acre preserve in Emigrant, MT for his buffalo wolves. The wolves are reported to weigh up to 200 pounds each. Lynch raises cattle to feed them, and spends an additional $552…
Date: March 30, 1982

This article reports that Jack Lynch has moved the wolf park from Gardiner, WA to Livingston, MT. Lynch stopped soliciting visitors to "Loboland" a couple of years ago, having never gotten many in the first place, and that an "adopt a wolf" program was started to help fund the wolves. The Gardiner…
Date: September 10, 1981

This article reports that the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Parks has denied Jack Lynch permission to pick up roadkill to feed his wolves. At the time of writing, Lynch has about 100 wolves, each of whom eats 35-40 pounds of meat per week. A photo is included of Lynch and a buffalo wolf…
Date: February 1981, probably a day or two before the 18th

This article reports that Jack Lynch (age 57) and Mary Wheeler (age 52) are moving the wolves in their care to a 160-acre lot which they have recently purchased in the Gallatin Range, Montana. One of Lynch's reasons for the move is that Montana is the wolves' natural range and they will lose…
Date: October 19, 1980

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This photograph depicts Jack Lynch being kissed by a wolf at Jack Lynch's "Loboland USA" buffalo wolf preserve, located in Gardiner, WA. A wolf in a neighboring pen can be seen in the distance.
Date: April 5, 1980

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This photograph depicts a wolf at Jack Lynch's "Loboland USA" buffalo wolf preserve, located in Gardiner, WA.
Date: April 5, 1980

This article, written for children, profiles Jack Lynch who cares for a pack of 80 of the last of the lobo (or buffalo) wolves, which are larger than most wolves. Lynch first read about the wolves in 1961 and purchased them from the aging Dr. E. H. McCleery who had saved the original 25 lobo wolves…
Date: April 1980

This article reports that Jack Lynch, who claims he can no longer afford to keep the 72 wolves in his care, has asked for state aid. During the 1980 Washington Legislature session, a proposal to appropriate $50,000 for a buffalo wolf preserve in Eastern Washington was included in a supplemental…
Date: March 14, 1980

Letter from Marjorie "Margie" Lynch to the Kane Republican and the people of Kane, written on stationary from Port Angeles Motor Inn. Marjorie implores the Kane people to do all they can to bring the wolves back to Kane and expresses sorrow for moving them to Gardiner, saying she knows Jack is sorry…
Date: March 5, 1980

This article describes the possibility of creating a preserve for Jack Lynch's lobo wolves in their natural habitat, in part due to Lynch's inability to continue funding the wolves. The proposed house bill (1916) - an idea of Rep. Jerry Hughes, a proponent of the wolves - would appropriate $50,000…
Date: March 2, 1980

Letter from Jack Lynch to the editor of the Kane Republican. Lynch has enclosed a newspaper clipping regarding Ed. A. Andrews, a self-proclaimed wolf expert who visited Kane in the spring of 1979, falsely claiming to represent the Dr. E. H. McCleery Lobo Wolf Foundation and making untrue statements…
Date: January 5, 1980

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

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

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 describes Jack Lynch, his partner Mary Wheeler, and their work with wolves. At the time of writing, Lynch had 125 wolves representing six subspecies (72 of which are buffalo wolves). It reports that the buffalo wolves can reach up to 200 pounds and seven feet in length. Lynch has…
Date: December 13, 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

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

This publication includes Durward L. Allen's proposal for a Great Plains National Park which was presented in 1976 at the First Conference on Scientific Research in the National Parks in New Orleans, LA.The proposed park would be located near the tri-state area of Nebraska, South Dakota, and Wyoming…
Date: 1979