Chuck Bonham

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File - This May 8, 2012 file photo provided by the California Department of Fish and Game shows OR-7, the Oregon wolf that has trekked across two states looking for a mate, on a sagebrush hillside in Modoc County, Calif. Chuck Bonham, the director of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, said Wednesday that the scientific evidence suggests some protections are needed for the gray wolf, but not a listing on the endangered species list, The San Francisco Chronicle reported. Bonham said his decision was reached after a yearlong department study spurred by conservationists, who filed a petition seeking protections after a lone gray wolf, called OR-7, wandered into California from Oregon. (AP Photo/California Department of Fish and Game, Richard Shinn, File)