Currently an estimated 50,000 to 60,000 wolves inhabit Canada, the second-largest population in the world after the former Soviet Union. Historically, wolves inhabited virtually all regions of Canada, from the shores of the Great Lakes to the northern tip of Ellesmere Island, with the exception of Prince Edward Island, Anticosti Island and the Queen Charlotte […]
Reese Halter / The Calgary Herald Recently, while traveling on the eastern seaboard, I was asked by schoolchildren where the most remarkable remaining wild forests in North America were located? My answer: British Columbia. The land base of British Columbia is an astounding 95 million hectares and it contains picturesque fjords, jagged peaks, glaciers and
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The Mackenzie Wolf was originally classified as Canis lupus mackenzii, the Northwest Territories wolf; not recognized as a sub-species of the Gray Wolf until 1943. In 1992, this wolf was re-classified as Canis lupus occidentalis, common with wolves in Alaska and Western Canada. Terms such as timber wolf, arctic wolf, buffalo, buffalo runner and Mackenzie
In the mid-1990s, when the wolf reintroduction programs in the Rocky Mountain states were ready to proceed, biologists trekked north to capture and relocate wolves from central Alberta and northern British Columbia. These wolves released into Yellowstone National Park were the genesis of the most famous wolf reintroduction program in the world. The first group
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