Now this was in 1979.  That intersection today is all retail.  Highway 6 and FM 529 have both been widened.  There is no remnants of the intersection as I knew it.   But, in 1979, Wolf Corner still existed and was a very rural intersection of two black top roads.

Wolf Corner was the place you could go see actual wolf pelts.  A local farmer/rancher Charles Grisbee shot wolves for bounty money.  And in that time it was a greeted as a good thing as wolves were a menace to the local ranchers and farmers.

Charles Grisbee at Wolf Corner

Truth be told, I don’t recall seeing wolf pelts hanging on a fence.  I think by then they were all taken down.  We  always tried to spy them, though.

I saw this article about Wolf Corner last year in the local newspaper and intended to blog about it back them.  I forgot all about that article until recently when I was sent the photos of wolves taken in Idaho.  I think those have been proven bogus by Snopes.com.  Here is another discussion about Wolf Corner and Charles Grisbee with a republication of another article on him and his legacy.

Recently, I went to go see “The Grey”.  That’s the movie with Liam Neeson where he plays a gunman hired to shoot wolves to protect oilfield worker lives.

The wolves in that movie are portrayed as aggressive hunters killing for sport.  Most of what you think you know is incorrect about large gray wolves.  Here is a fact sheet found on the movies’s web site that dispels some myths.  For instance, wolves rarely kill and do not consume humans.

Wolf Fact Sheet

However, wolf attacks do occur.  Read this about a jogger in Alaska  that was attacked.  The article tells of a pack that was exterminated when they became habituated near humans.

Here is a great blog post of wolves taking down a moose.  And of course you can see the link to the right for other great posts concerning wolves.

Here’s the story.

Wolf or Coyote?

From the email: “This Wolf was shot recently in Drayton Valley, Alberta….which is near Edmonton about 3 hours North of Calgary. The wolf weighs over 230lbs smashing the previous record of 175lbs.

Apparently a bear hunter witnessed this wolf chase off a big black bear at his baiting station.”

Massive!