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HAVRE — An Oklahoma cou-ple has been arrested in Montanafor investigation of burying ayoung girl then digging up herremains and moving the bodyfrom state to state for more than ayear, authorities said Tuesday.

Abel Wolf, 35, and DeniseWolf, 40, were being held withoutbail in the Hill County jail inHavre after being charged inOklahoma with unlawful removalof a body, Hill County AttorneyGina Dahl said .

The suspects are scheduled fora court appearance today.

An autopsy will be done todetermine the cause of death andwhether the remains are those ofAbel Wolf’s 11-year-old daughterCheyenne, said Jessica Brown, a

spokeswomanfor the Okla-homa StateBureau ofInvestigation.

Abel andDenise Wolfwere arrestedThursday nearRocky Boy’sIndian Reser-vation south-west of Havre.

Sharon Sky-berg, a bookingofficial at theHill County jail,didn’t know ifthe Wolfs hadretained alawyer. Dahl

said the defendants likely will beappointed a public defender bythe court if they haven’t retainedone privately.

Brown told The AssociatedPress that relatives had reportedto Oklahoma police thatCheyenne Wolf was missingwhen her father and stepmotherDenise moved to Montana andOregon.

The investigation led police todiscover the remains in a storageunit in the Milton-Freewater areaof Oregon.

An affidavit filed by OSBIinvestigator David Houston saidAbel Wolf told Houston the familywas upset with Cheyenne in April2008 because she would not eatdinner one night.

While Abel was outside smok-ing, he heard a thump but saidCheyenne seemed fine, the affi-davit said.

She was found dead the nextday, according to the document.

“Abel Wolf put CheyenneWolf’s body in a sleeping bag andthen put her body into a largeplastic tub,” the affidavit said.

That tub was then stored in ashed, buried under the deck andmoved with the family in August2008 to Havre, it said.

When Cheyenne’s sister ranaway in January and was placedin a hospital, the couple began toworry that word would get outabout Cheyenne, so they movedher remains to a chicken coop onproperty owned by Denise Wolf’sbrother in Oregon, the affidavitsaid.

Denise Wolf later movedCheyenne’s body to a storagebuilding in the Milton-Freewater,Ore., area, Houston said in hisaffidavit.

In court, the suspects will begiven an opportunity to waiveextradition, voluntarily surrenderto Oklahoma law officers and bereturned to that state for prosecu-tion.

Otherwise, Oklahoma will seekto have the defendants extraditedto that state, Dahl said.

By KARL PUCKETTTribune Staff Writer

Two conservation organiza-tions are proposing to pay ranch-ers cash for grazing rights in theCharles M. Russell NationalWildlife Refuge in the hopes ofending conflict between nestingbirds and foraging cattle and elk.

The World Wildlife Fund andthe National Wildlife Federation

sent letters to ranchers explain-ing the voluntary cash-for-grassprogram this week, in which upto $600,000 will be set aside forpayments.

Ranchers have until Aug. 7 toname their price.

“We’re trying to find a moreconstructive way of trying toresolve the conflict that I think isresponsive to the economicneeds of permitees,” said Hank

Fischer of the National WildlifeFederation.

In exchange for cash pay-ments, cattlemen would agree to

leave the refuge and not renewtheir yearly grazing permits,which can be passed on only tofamily members.

Cattle and wildlife such as elkthat compete for forage haveclashed in the refuge since it wascreated in 1936, Fischer said.

The conservation groups wantto give the refuge a hand in man-aging wildlife, Fischer said.

“The CMR sits in an area innorthcentral Montana that’sincredibly important bothbecause it’s intact and there areopportunities for conservation,”said Dawn Montanye, managerof conservation economies forWWF’s Northern Great Plains

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Wildlife refuge grazing deal sought

Employment program buildswork ethic, teaches new skills

By ZACHARY FRANZTribune Staff Writer

For many teens, the hardest partof summer is finding a way to staybusy. Thanks to federalstimulus dollars, 15-year-old Colette Spangler’sbiggest challenge iswrenching knapweed outof the ground.

Spangler, of Great Falls,is working through Mon-tana’s Youth SummerEmployment Program —one channel of the federalgovernment’s American Reinvest-ment and Recovery Act.

She has spent the past couple ofweeks maintaining the River’s Edge

Trail — learning which plants areactually weeds, picking up garbageand clearing brush. The job paysminimum wage and it’s not glam-orous work, but she doesn’t mind.

Like all participants, sheworked with administra-tors to find a job that suitsher interests and abilities.

“I got this job because Ilove being outdoors,” shesaid. “I like it a lot.”

Besides, she’s thinkingof the payoff. Spanglerplans to spend her earn-ings on a car and put sometoward a trip to Mexico

next summer for her cousin’s 15thbirthday celebration.

Expertsmixed onfuture ofmissiles

By PETER JOHNSONTribune Staff Writer

One arms-control expert pre-dicted Tuesday “with a great dealof uncertainty” that the U.S.could achieve nuclear reductionscalled for under a new agreementby trimming the number of mis-siles on nuclear submarines —and leaving land-based missilesintact.

“Montana’s land-based mis-siles are probably safe for now,”said Daryl Kim-ball, executivedirector of theprivate Washing-ton, D.C.-basedArms ControlAssociation, inan interviewwith the Tribune.

But an expertwith anotherthink tank, Eric Edelman of theCenter for Strategic and Bud-getary Assessments, said “it’sintrinsically hard to predict at thispoint. I wouldn’t want to venturea guess now.”

Edelman, a former Depart-ment of Defense undersecretaryfor policy from 2005 to 2008, saidhis former colleagues “will wres-tle with that.”

He noted the joint statementissued Monday by U.S. PresidentBarack Obama and Russian Pres-ident Dmitry Medvedev listedwide ranges of warhead andlauncher limits that still have tobe fine-tuned in negotiations.

In addition, Edelman said, theDefense Department’s NuclearPosture Review, to be completedby the end of the summer, willhave a big role determining the

Inside:Leadersurge Obamato keep 450land-basedICBMs /3A

Memorial humanizes icon Michael JacksonMichaelJackson’sdaughterParis Jack-son, top,holds herbrotherPrinceMichaelJackson II,at thememorialservice atthe StaplesCenter inLos Angeleson Tuesday.

AP PHOTO/GABRIEL BOUYS

By NEKESA MUMBI MOODYAP Music Writer

LOS ANGELES —Michael Jackson was anentertainment phenomenonboth triumphant and trou-bled, a dazzling performerwho transcended barriers,transformed the music worldand transfixed fans and non-fans alike in every corner ofthe Earth.

But Tuesday’s memorial

was not for that MichaelJackson.

Instead, those closest tothe legend provided aglimpse of Michael Jacksonthe man.

In a poignant and sereneservice, the portrait theypainted was of a human justas remarkable, making hisloss doubly painful to bearfor those who truly lovedhim.

“I just wanted to say ...

ever since I was born, Daddyhas been the best father youcould ever imagine. And Ijust wanted to say I love him— so much,” said Jackson’s11-year-old daughter, Paris-Michael, before dissolvinginto tears and falling into theembrace of her aunt Janet.

It was a deeply emotionalmoment, the most profoundpart of a memorial thataccomplished what Jacksoncould not in life: humanizing

a man who for so long hadseemed like a caricature.

How could someone whomoved like he moved, sanglike he sang, and reachedmusical heights few haveever touched be as humanas the rest of us? How coulda man who threw a wed-ding for Elizabeth Taylor,had a chimpanzee as a com-panion, and wore masks to

Family gives look inside the man behind the music

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Devon Dunham, left, passes brush from the River’s Edge Trail to fellow crew members Collette Spangler (in van) AllanReis and Alex Baez. All four have summer jobs through the Montana Youth Employment Program, which is part of the fed-eral stimulus package.

Collette Spangler, left, and Alex Baez team up toyank out knapweed Monday along the River’sEdge Trail.

Two conservation groups pitch ‘cash-for-grass’ deal to ranchers

Stimulus creates summer jobs for teens

City hires energy consultant /1M

Hearing on Little Shell recognition set /1M

Electrics split with

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