A Bay State wolf
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- March
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An Eastern gray wolf showed up in Massachusetts last fall. The wolf was shot by a farmer after attacking and killing his sheep. But the find amazed biologists, especially after DNA testing confirmed the wolf was a wolf and not some overgrown coyote.
The gray wolf wandered into Shelburne, which is in the western part of the state, close to Vermont and about 160 miles from White Plains. 
The gray wolf in the photo (courtesy of TJN photographer Mark Vergari) is from the Wolf Conservation Center in South Salem.
You can find more in the Boston Globe.
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Journal News staff writer Greg Clary writes Earth Watch, reporting on environmental issues in the lower Hudson region. Clary has been a reporter, editor and columnist at the Journal News since 1988 and has covered police and courts, transportation, municipal government, development and the environment in the Lower Hudson Valley, among other topics. 
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Mike Risinit covers Patterson and Kent in Putnam County, as well as environmental topics touching on the Hudson River and the Great Swamp. Risinit has been a reporter at The Journal News since 1998.
