Shannon Basner / Volunteer / Wolf Song of Alaska Minnesota is the only state in the Lower 48 where wolves were not wiped out by government control programs. Presently there are approximately 2,445 wolves in Minnesota. Rabies has never been found in wolves in this area, and healthy wolves generally shy away from humans. There […]
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Source: Timber Wolf Alliance News / October 2002 The new wolf population figure for Michigan (excluding Isle Royal National Park) is 280 wolves spread throughout all counties of the Upper Peninsula. There continues to be the hypothesis that wolves will expand into the northern lower peninsula, but there still is no documented evidence that this
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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Estimated gray wolf population of lower 48 states at the adoption of the Endangered Species Act in 1973: 400 or fewer, nearly all in Minnesota. Current estimated population: 4,008. Distribution: 2,445 in Minnesota, 373 in Wisconsin, 360 in Michigan, 29
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Peter Rebhahn / Green Bay Press-Gazette / July 4, 2004 ISLE ROYALE, Mich. – It was the wildness that attracted Rolf Peterson to this Lake Superior island 34 years ago. He stayed for the science. “When you realize what goes on here in terms of the predator-prey relationship – there’s no other place like it,”
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Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute / Timber Wolf Alliance / September 2002 Why did wolves disappear? State and federal bounties (no longer in effect), loss of habitat. poaching, car kills, disease, starvation and parasites have all contributed to their decline. Today, thanks largely to protection provided by the 1973 Endangered Species Act, wolf populations have returned
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Detroit News / AP / May 20, 2004 An endangered species, their population has risen above 360 animals TRAVERSE CITY – The Upper Peninsula’s surging gray wolf population has exceeded 200 for the fifth consecutive year, a milestone that likely will bump the animal from the endangered species list. Once virtually extinct in Michigan, the wolf
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Source: Timber Wolf Alliance News / October 2002 Wolves were extirpated from the Northeast by the mid-1800s. Scientific studies have confirmed that there are more than 29.722 square miles of suitable wolf habitat throughout New York, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. With ample prey of moose, deer and beaver, wolf recovery in the Northeast will
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