When I met up with biologists working on the reservation, they took me on as a basic field biologist, teaching me how to track wolves and collect data for them.

Telemetry enables ranchers to track wolves fitted with radio collars and scare them off.

The hunters track wolves on horseback, with their dogs in sleds.

Conan, who had tracked wolves in his native hills, found no insurmountable difficulty in following the trail of the Keshani priests.

This practice, begun last year, allows anyone with a $15 license to track wolves by aircraft, run them to the point of exhaustion, land the aircraft and open fire.

Often, The Shadow had tracked lone wolves of crime; but crooks of their caliber were rare, indeed, and appeared only at intervals.

The board said all options were to be considered, meaning that at least in theory Alaska could return to the days when hunting guides were permitted to track wolves by air, then land their planes and lead their clients directly to wolf packs.

People on both sides of the question said the rancor was reminiscent of highly charged campaigns in 1996 and 2000 over ballot measures that outlawed a practice in which hunters used planes to track wolves and then landed and killed them.