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Previous surveys and observations by biologists since 2010 have indicated evidence of scattered wolf presence in northern parts of the Lower Peninsula. The most recent wolf sighting in the Lower ...
The last known wolf sighting in the Lower Peninsula was in 2014 by biologists from the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians. Little Traverse Bay is about a 265-mile drive north of Calhoun ...
The Michigan DNR is unraveling the mystery of how an endangered gray wolf ended up in Calhoun County, miles from a wolf habitat in the U.P.
The wolf was killed in January by a hunter who told investigators that he had mistaken it for a coyote. 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.
As of 2002, approximately one-third of Michigan's nesting pairs of piping plovers were found in Wilderness State Park. [4] One of the first sightings of wolves in the Lower Peninsula was reported along the park's shoreline by a Coast Guard pilot in 1997. [7] In 2015, MDNR officials confirmed the presence of wolves in the Lower Peninsula. [8]
Wolves have naturally migrated in the three state region. As of 2021, the estimated stable population is 4,400 in the three states. [20] Wolves may also disperse across the Great Plains into this region from the northern Rocky Mountain region which includes Wyoming with approximately 300 wolves and Colorado with a small population.
Wolf OR-7 became the first wolf west of the Cascades in Oregon since the last bounty was claimed in 1947. [139] Oregon's wolf population increased to 77 wolves in 15 packs with 8 breeding pairs as of the end of 2015. [125] As a result, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife proposed to delist wolves from their protected species list. [140]
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.