Dont know. My wife was talking with a friend about me going elk hunting next week, she sent this picture and said her uncle shot it after it killed some cattle. She lives in Idaho...thats all I know. I did jump on line and google it and think it's probably BS. the picture has been around since Oct 2009 and everything from Alberta, Idaho, Montana, Alaska??? Either way, its one huge freekin' wolf. Wifey sent an email to see if she could verify. My guess is its fake because anyone who shot a wolf this big would be in the paper and I couldn't find a single article from a mainstream paper. Still pretty cool to look at!