WASHINGTON, D.C. - Montana's Congressman, Denny Rehberg, is opposing a move to have wilderness study areas managed as de facto wilderness through bypassing current law that gives authority to designate wilderness areas to Congress.
"It seems some in the House have forgotten why they are in Congress,"
said Rehberg, a member of the House Appropriations Committee.  "The Wilderness Act clearly requires Congress to designate new wilderness, yet some are trying to bypass the law, the will of the American people, and the checks and balances of the Constitution to reward their special interest group friends."

On March 9, 2010, Candice Berner, a 32 year-old special education teacher working in Chignik Lake, Alaska, went jogging at dusk on a road near town and was attacked and killed by wolves.
 
Wolves might be beautiful animals, but they are becoming deadly to humans in North America.
On October 28, 2009, Canadian folk singer Taylor Mitchell was hiking in a Provincial Park in Nova Scotia when she was attacked and killed by two coyotes, which were subsequently identified by park rangers as a wolf-coyote hybrid.