The New York Times offers an in-depth view of Idaho, Montana and Wyoming's wolf controversy — wolves have been taken off the endangered list only to quickly be gunned down. But as often is the case, the NYTimes proves geographically challenged west of the Hudson River.

(Another New York publication famously summed the perennial issue up at right.)

One animal, says the article, datelined from Denver, may become a martyr for the pro-wolf movement. Wolf 253M was shot in western Wyoming.

The killing made headlines as far away as Utah, where 253M had wandered in 2002, before being transported back to Wyoming.

"As far away as Utah?" Perhaps, someone should tell the NYTimes that with the Pony Express and all, news makes its way from western Wyoming to Salt Lake City even faster than 253M could walk.