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An animal a Michigan hunter thought was a big coyote when he shot it in January has been determined to be a gray wolf, the first time the species has been found in southern Michigan in more than a ...
Wildlife experts have hit a dead end in their quest to determine how a gray wolf arrived in southern Michigan for the first time in more than 100 years. It was a shock: While gray wolves are ...
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. Gray wolf ends up in southwest Michigan, far from 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.
The wolves on Isle Royale, Michigan, in Lake Superior are considered separately and are not included in the count for the state. [1] The Michigan DNR Wolf Management Advisory Council began meeting in August 2021 and plans to provide input on a management plan in May 2022. [47] Native American tribes will also be consulted on wolf management. [48]
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]
In 2021, a mitochondrial DNA analysis of North American wolf-like canines indicates that the extinct Late Pleistocene Beringian wolf was the ancestor of the southern wolf clade, which includes the Mexican wolf and the Great Plains wolf. The Mexican wolf is the most ancestral of the gray wolves that live in North America today.
Due to a history of extensive hunting and trapping, Michigan’s wolf population — once found across the state — dwindled to near-extinction in the 1950s. The Endangered Species Act of 1973 ...