Colville Tribe working to reintroduce lynx in the Kettle Range

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Tue., March 8, 2022

Shelly Boyd, far left, a cultural representative of the area's Native tribes, offers a prayer for safety in her native language before a Canada lynx, trapped in Canada, is released near Inchelium Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022. Wildlife biologist Elizabeth Odell, center, and Michael Finley, right, listen to Boyd's prayer. The animal is part of a reintroduction program to establish a population in northeastern Washington.

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Shelly Boyd, a cultural representative of the area’s Native tribes, offers a prayer for safety in her native language before a Canada lynx is released near Inchelium, Washington, on Feb. 9. The animal is part of a reintroduction program in Northeast Washington.

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A Canada lynx, trapped in Canada, is released in 2022. The Kettle Range Conservation Group and the Colville National Forest finalized an agreement last week that ends a lawsuit over the Bulldog Project, which the group argues threatens lynx habitat.

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A Canada lynx, trapped in Canada, is released by Michael Finley, left, and biologist Ossian Laspa, right, near Inchelium Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022. leaving the crate in which it was transported. The animal is part of a reintroduction program to establish a population in northeastern Washington.

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A Canada lynx, trapped in Canada, scampers away from the release point, near Inchelium Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022. The animal is part of a reintroduction program to establish a population in northeastern Washington.

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Wildlife biologists Ossian Laspa, left, and Elizabeth Odell carry an animal crate containing a Canada lynx, trapped in Canada, to a snowy field where it was released near Inchelium Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022. The animal is part of a reintroduction program to establish a population in northeastern Washington.

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A Canada lynx, trapped in Canada, is released near Inchelium Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022. Shelly Boyd, a cultural representative of the area's Native tribes, takes photographs of the lynx bounds through the snow after leaving the crate in which it was transported. The animal is part of a reintroduction program to establish a population in northeastern Washington.

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Wildlife biologists Ossian Laspa, left, and Elizabeth Odell carry an animal crate containing a Canada lynx, trapped in Canada, to a snowy field where it was released near Inchelium Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022. The animal is part of a reintroduction program to establish a population in northeastern Washington.

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A Canada lynx, trapped in Canada, is released from a transport crate by Michael Finley near Inchelium Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022. The lynx is part of a reintroduction program.

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A Canada lynx, which had been trapped in Canada and transported into Washington state, leaps from its crate near Inchelium, Washington Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022. The release is part of an effort to rebuild the lynx population in the lower 48 states. Releasing the lynx are Michael Finley, left, and biologist Ossian Laspa, right.

Courtesy Of Elizabeth Odell