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In 1974 when the gray wolf was officially listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act, there were only about 750 wolves in the Great Lakes region.Today, it is estimated that there are ...
By December 2011, Oregon's gray wolf population had grown to 24. One of the Oregon gray wolves, known as OR-7, traveled more than 700 miles (1,100 km) to the Klamath Basin and crossed the border into California. [138] Wolf OR-7 became the first wolf west of the Cascades in Oregon since the last bounty was claimed in 1947. [139]
The southern Rocky Mountain wolf (Canis lupus youngi) is an extinct subspecies of gray wolf which was once distributed over southeastern Idaho, southwestern Wyoming, northeastern Nevada, Utah, western and central Colorado, northwestern Arizona (but north of the Grand Canyon), and northwestern New Mexico.
Recovery of Gray Wolves in the Great Lakes Region of the United States: An Endangered Species Success Story. Springer. ISBN 978-0-387-85951-4. OCLC 308158198. Thiel, Richard P. (1993). The Timber Wolf in Wisconsin: The Death and Life of a Majestic Predator. University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 978-0-299-13944-5.
The wolf (Canis lupus; [b] pl.: wolves), also known as the grey wolf or gray wolf, is a canine native to Eurasia and North America. More than thirty subspecies of Canis lupus have been recognized, including the dog and dingo , though grey wolves, as popularly understood, only comprise naturally-occurring wild subspecies.
A young shelter dog recently became the unlikely mentor for an orphaned wolf pup at a zoo in Wichita, Kansas, and the two have since built a bond their human caretakers call the "perfect pairing."
It was a shock: While gray wolves are common in Michigan's Upper Peninsula — the latest estimate is more than 700 — the state's southern Lower Peninsula doesn't offer the proper habitat.
In Canada, the gray wolf was extirpated in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia between 1870 and 1921, and in Newfoundland around 1911. It vanished from the southern regions of Quebec and Ontario between 1850 and 1900. The gray wolf's decline in the prairies began with the extirpation of the American bison and other ungulates in the 1860s–70s. From ...