Traverse City – Federal officials announced a tentative plan Friday to relocate 20-30 gray wolves to Isle Royale National Park in Michigan over three years to replenish a population that has nearly died out because of inbreeding and disease. The National Park Service said it would make a final decision after giving the public a month to react to its proposal …
Michigan’s Isle Royale wolves: Area probably down to a single wolf
DETROIT — Isle Royale may be down to a lone wolf, as the federal government ponders whether it will replenish the pack on the northern Michigan Island. For the last two years, a male and female wolf have held on as the last remaining pair of wolves on the 893-square-mile island national park in Lake Superior. The pair were spotted in the …
Michigan Wolf management a back-and-forth battle
In the serve-and-volley process of managing wolves in Michigan and the Western Great Lakes region, the ball is once again in a federal court. Last week, according to the Sportsmen’s Alliance, its lawyers and those of the Michigan DNR, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and other agencies and groups presented oral arguments in an appeal of an earlier ruling on Great …
Wolves on Isle Royale ‘most certainly headed for extinction
Had Federal officials been proactive versus reactive, this Wolf Population could have been maintained. The wolf population on Isle Royale is “most certainly headed for extinction.” That’s the prognosis from researchers at Michigan Technological University, which put out its annual look at how the wolves (and moose) on the island are doing. Isle Royale is located in Lake Superior, …
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