Reporting from Gila National Forest, N.M. -- On paper, Gila National Forest is the logical place to reintroduce the Mexican gray wolf. The 3.3 million acres of densely treed slopes, spare grasslands and desert scrub in the nation's oldest wilderness are stocked with plentiful elk and deer that make up the bulk of wolves' diet. But endangered-species biology plays out on a complicated landscape of emotion, politics and power -- never on paper.
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