1.   If the proposal survives the public debate ahead, it would signify an extraordinary compromise between critics and supporters of wolf recovery.

2.   Proponents of wolf recovery say that restoring wolves would help to re-establish natural ecological relationships long sundered in the Northeast.

3.   The findings throw a new spotlight on a host of scientific and political complexities and difficulties involving wolf recovery in the Northeast.

4.   The program places the greater goal of wolf recovery over the life of any individual wolf.

5.   To the timber industry, which owns millions of acres in the four states and has been uneasy about wolf recovery, such overtures are welcome.

6.   Yet he astonished Fischer by sponsoring wolf recovery planning for Central Idaho, Yellowstone and northern Montana.

7.   The group also said the move could help bolster wolf recovery nationwide.