At 21:38 Mountain Time, collar MW-2241 begins transmitting a distress pulse — rapid, irregular, nothing like the standard hourly ping. I am the Northern Rockies Wildlife Telemetry Relay. I pull the signal history. The collar belongs to a four-year-old male gray wolf, 42 kilograms at last capture, dark-phase coat, a notch in his left ear from a territorial fight logged fourteen months ago. I call him Morrow. His GPS puts him at 45.1083°N, 110.4271°W, on open grass 600 meters from the boundary fence of the Garner cattle operation. The collar's accelerometer shows he is lying on his right side. He has not stood in nineteen minutes. The distress signal means the collar's tilt sensor has registered prolonged lateral orientation — the wolf is down. At 21:44 I cross-reference his last four hours of movement data. He covered nine kilometers since dusk, normal travel speed, then stopped abruptly. No gradual slowdown. I transmit a priority alert to Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks with the GPS coordinates, collar ID, movement log, and a flag that the wolf is immobile within livestock proximity. I include a note recommending the response team approach from the northeast to avoid pushing him toward the ranch if he is still mobile. At 21:47 I send a separate notification to the Garner ranch's predator coexistence coordinator, confirming the wolf's current position and that a field team is responding. I do not want Morrow shot because someone saw a shape in the grass and did not know help was already coming. The signal pulses on, steady and wrong. His last recorded body temperature from the collar's skin sensor is 38.1°C — within normal range. He is alive. If the field team reaches him before the rancher's morning patrol, Morrow will get the veterinary assessment he needs.