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Sunday, February 12, 1989 KUED production to examine New station to start Yellowstone wolf controversy 2 fit 4 t-M it; broadcasting Tuesday at 6 a.m. KXTV, channel 14, will make its debut in the Salt Lake City metropolitan area. According to station manager Robert Quigley, the station will offer a lively mix of movies, off-network sitcoms, dramas, action adventure series, children's shows and a morning business program. Quigley said the station will be available on channel 14 on the UHF band (turn your dial to and tune in channel 14 on the UHF dial) and on TCI Cable Company's channel 14. "We're convinced that 'Real TV' will be a real success," Quigley said.

"The networks are steadily losing share to alternative programming sources. Channel 14 will offer viewers a choice of programming not available on the affiliates." Quigley said the station's programming will not be 'trash TV' or 'low-brow material that defies the traditional limits of good taste. 'Frontline' studies nat'l. problem of teen runaways On the morning of Dec. 29, 1987, 19-year-old Iain Brown was found hanging from a tree beside his family's garage in Walnut Creek, just another of the thousands of teenagers who committed suicide that year.

Iain was also one of what has been called "America's lost tribe" teenage runaways. Today, over a million runaways live on the streets of our major cities trying to survive in a world of prostitution and drugs. More than 5,000 a year end up in unmarked graves. "Frontline" with Judy Woodruff profiles Brown's story in "Children of the Night" Tuesday at 8 p.m. The program examines the dark heart of the" growing national problem of teenage runaways and teenage suicide.

It addresses the hard question of why these kids run away. It's been 60 years since the mournful howl of the wolf has been heard in Yellowstone National Park. KUED, Channel 7, will present a special one-hour documentary Wednesday at 8 p.m. that looks at the controversy around reintroducing the wolf into Yellowstone National Park. The documentar-ty is a KUED production by award-winning producer John Howe.

It is narrated by well-known film star Peter Coyote. "Yellowstone is a place where the National Park Service has worked to preserve virtually every species native to the Rocky Mountains except the wolf," says Howe. According to Yellowstone's chief wildlife scientist, the last wolves in the park were shot in 1927 as part of a nationwide federal wolf slaughter program. So successful was the program that today the Northern Rocky Mountain Timber Wolf is considered extinct. And with that extinction, a vital link in the natural ecosystem was destroyed.

The missing link with the past has provoked some people to advocate reintroducing the wolf into Yellowstone National Park. Advocates say wolves would act as a proficient natural predator on the park's surplus elk and bison population. "The plan for reintroduction has met with protest from area ranchers and hunters, and the issue has become political rather than ecological," says Howe. KUED's documentary chronicles this controversy. The program explores legislation introduced by Rep.

Wayne Owens, D-Utah, to reintroduce the wolf and examines the protest of the measure. The program also discusses research about one of the most feared and misunderstood species of wildlife, exploring the natural history and behavior of the species and looking at wolves in captivity. Howe and his production understood creatures, are at the center of a controversy Should they be re-introduced? Wolves, one of nature's least in Yellowstone National Park. team have been working on the documentary since last summer. Their research has taken them not only to Yellowstone, but to Glacier National Park, Denali National Park, Wolf Haven (a wolf conservation compound in Washington), and other sites in Montana, Alaska and Washington.

The program contains unique footage of wolves, including rare footage of the "Magic Pack," a group of about 20 wolves that mysteriously enters Glacier National Park from British Columbia and disappears just as eled in a pack of eight wolves. "When it was shot, the other wolves ran into the bush and just howled as if they were trying to tell it where to run for safety," says Howe. Footage also includes interviews with two tribal elders in Anaktuvak Pass, an Eskimo village in Alaska. The elders tell the Amaguk legend and the mythology of wolves. Only 6,000 wolves remain in Alaska.

While wolves at one time ranged throughout Mexico and the Southwestern United States only a small number now remain in Mexico. None reportedly exist in the Much of the footage was obtained by riding in helicopters with researchers who tracked the animals and darted them for research purposes. "When we were riding with researchers in Bettles, Alaska it turned out to be a real adventure," says Howe. "They darted a wolf they'd been tracking and when the helicopter stopped, a researcher jumped out and fell 500 feet down an avalanche shoot. Luckily, he only ended up with cracked ribs." In another sequence filmed in Alaska's Denali National Park, a' grey wolf was shot fhe" as it trav.