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connection the effort of the Italian 
forest administration to reforest many 
cleared mountain regions is certainly 
a positive factor. 
To conclude our work in the 
Abruzzi, my wife and I flew along 
the Apennines from Florence in the 
north to Calabria in the south. We 
wanted to find out what the country 
looked like in between the high moun- 
tain areas where Luigi had originally 
concluded that wolves still survived. 
We spent four days crisscrossing the 
mountains, and found no distribution 
area that seemed to be completely iso- 
lated from the rest. Thus, according 
to the present state of our knowledge 
of their behavior, wolves should be 
able to roam from Monti Sibillini in 
the north of the Abruzzi to Monti 
della Sila in the south. That would 
make their final extinction in Italy 
more unlikely than we had originally 
supposed. 
It soon became clear to us that their 
survival, whether they lived in isolated 
enclaves or in contact with one an- 
other, depended on doing away with 
their total reliance on humans. This 
could be accomplished only by large- 
scale reintroduction of their natural 
prey. The red deer was exterminated 
in the Abruzzi in the nineteenth cen- 
tury, but a small population of roe 
deer survived in the national park area 
up to the 1960s. The principal cause 
for the disappearance of both species 
must have been hunting, although the 
competition resulting from overinten- 
sive grazing of domestic animals may 
also have played a part. 
In 1971 and 1972 a total of forty- 
five red deer from Yugoslavia and 
twenty-one roe from northern Italy 
were set free in the national park. 
When our project began a year later, 
little was known about their where- 
abouts. The red deer had evidently 
established themselves in the vicinity 
of their point of release, but the roe 
seemed to have disappeared again. 
We therefore proposed that more 
animals of both species should be re- 
leased and that they should be studied 
with a view to gaining knowledge and 
experience for further large-scale re- 
introductions. We were particularly in- 
terested in how they would multiply, 
the influence they would have on the 
vegetation, and their interactions with 
domestic animals, as well as with the 
wolf and the bear. Between 1974 and 
1977 a total of twenty-eight red deer 
and sixteen roe were released at var- 
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