Norway's top environmental official insists that wolves will continue to be protected in the country, but now another one may be hunted down.
A female wolf suspected of attacking and killing around 100 dogs has raised the hackles of those living the eastern portions of Akershus and ?stfold counties. She was once a member of the so-called ?rjang-Kongsvinger pack, but lately she's been roaming on her own.

There were at least three documented killings of domestic dogs in R?mskog, Aurskog-H?land and Marker last autumn. One of them was the hunting dog owned by Erling Karlstad.
"We had let Tito go, to hunt, but then it was quiet for several hours," Karlstad said. "We started looking, and found a trail of blood that ended in some underbrush. There was Tito, lying there all torn up."
Local residents blame the female wolf, and want to add her to the quota of five wolves recently authorized for a hunt in the eastern valley called ?sterdalen. Wildlife authorities are considering the request.
Meanwhile, the ?sterdalen hunt will resume this weekend. More than 100 hunters failed to shoot any of the five authorized last weekend.
Environmental minister Knut Arild Hareide told members of Parliament this week that "the wolf shall live" in Norway, with management of the small wolf population under control of conservation authorities. Politicians representing farmers and residents of the areas where a small population of wolves has reestablished itself are constantly pressuring for more hunts.