History, Population Growth, and Management of Wolves in Wisconsin

摘要: While we were growing up in Wisconsin during the 1950s and 1960s, gray wolves (we always called them timber wolves, Canis lupus) making their last stand northern Wisconsin. Wolves considered a wilderness-dependant relic of Wisconsin’s frontier past that no longer belonged our state. We did not expect to ever again return state, at least any sizeable numbers. Among us, Dick Thiel was most tenacious about trying find evidence Wisconsin, even as student 1960s 1970s. When began returning mid-1970s, dared hope for more than token population reestablish. The recovery has succeeded beyond wildest dreams. have had pleasure document track amazing this powerful predator