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     WILDLIFE IN DANGER 
     
    
   
   
    
     This is the fourth article in a series on endangered wildlife in Canada, based on 
     
     information by the Canadian Wildlife Federation. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     NORTHERN ROCKY MOUNTAIN WOLF (Canis 
     
     lunus irremotus) 
     
    
   
   
    
     A large, light—coloured subspecies, 
     
     this wolf formerly occurred in the 
     
     forests and foothills of the Rocky 
     
     Mountains in southern Alberta, south— 
     
     eastern British Columbia, south to 
     
     Western Wyoming. It is thought that 
     
     a few individuals belonging to this 
     
     subspecies still exist in the 
     
     mountains of southwestern Alberta and 
     
     southeastern British Columbia. Its 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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     end of the 19th, sea otters were 
     
     ruthlessly exploited for their 
     
     commercially valuable pelts. Sea 
     
     otters were extirpated from 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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     NORTHERN KIT FOX (Vulpes velox neoes) and it was not until 1971 that a 
     
     Typically found in arid short-grass plains and breeding population of otters from 
     
     shrubby deserts, the diminutive northern kit Amchitka Island was transplanted to 
     
     fox is recognizable by its big ears, grizzled . the northwest coast of Vancouver 
     
     grey back and creamy, buff flanks. It form- Island. A small nucleus from this 
     
     erly occurred in southwestern Saskatchewan, transplant survives today. 
     
    
   
   
    
     southern Alberta, southwestern British Colum- 
     
     bia and south to several mid—western states. 
     
     The kit fox is now considered endangered and 
     
     possibly extinct in Canada, although it is 
     
     hoped that a few individuals remain in the 
     
     Cypress Hills of southwestern Saskatchewan. 
     
     Habitat loss and indiscriminate predator cont- 
     
     rol programs contributed to its decline.