GREAT LAKES USA
Michigan / Minnesota / Wisconsin / Illinois / Indiana / Nebraska / North Dakota / South Dakota / Iowa
Gray Wolf (Canis lupus)
Great Lakes Boreal Wolf (Canis lupus x Canis lupus lyacon)
Eastern Timber Wolf (Canis lycaon, Canis lupus lycaon)
Population Statistics nearly 900; in 222 packs (2016), 905 – 944: in 238 packs (2017-2018), 914 – 978; in 243 packs (2018-2019)
Legal Status; protected under Endangered Species Act (September 2014)
Resources
US Fish and Wildlife Service (Gray Wolves in the Western Great Lakes)
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
Canid Howl Program
University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Carnivore Coexistence Laboratory
Ma’iingan Relationship Plan
Organizations
Timber Wolf Information Network (Wisconsin)
Friends of The Wisconsin Wolf & Wildlife
International Wolf Center – Wisconsin
The Nature Conservancy – Wisconsin
Aldo Leopold Foundation
Cedar Lakes Conservation Foundation
Sierra Club – Wisconsin John Muir Chapter
Wisconsin News Resources & Publications
On Wisconsin (UW – Madison, Wisconsin)
The Cap Times (Madison, Wisconsin)
Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, Wisconsin)
Wisc News (Baraboo, Beaver Dam, Portage, Wisconsin)
WIFC (Wausau, Wisconsin)
Wisconsin Public Radio (Wisconsin)
Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
LATEST WISCONSIN NEWSWolf and Wildlife News from Wisconsin
- Deer caused about three times the reimbursable damage compared with wolves in state last year | Chippewa Herald
27th Nov 2021
- Dane County judge temporarily bars Wisconsin’s wolf hunt, orders DNR to set quota of zero wolves | Wisconsin NPR
23rd Oct 2021
- Wisconsin Tribes Claim Half The Quota For Fall Wolf Hunt | Wisconsin Public Radio
21st Sep 2021
- Wisconsin lawmakers propose legislation to make annual mandatory wolf hunt optional | Badger Herald
14th Sep 2021
- How Wisconsin’s Wolf Hunt Quotas May Prompt Federal Review | PBS Wisconsin
02nd Sep 2021
- Wisconsin More Than Doubles Wolf-Hunting Quota, Angering Conservationists | New York Times
12th Aug 2021
- Groups Want Natural Resources Board Chair Removed Ahead Of Key Vote On Fall Wolf Hunt | WPR
25th Jul 2021
- Wolf study raises questions about what’s going on in Wisconsin’s woods | Wisconsin Examiner
13th Jul 2021
- With wolves, we seldom agree about much | Watertown Daily Times
06th May 2021
- UW grad combines research, tribal traditions in wolf relationship plan | University of Wisconsin–Madison
02nd May 2021
- Wolf Killing and the Legacy of Conquest | CounterPunch
12th Mar 2021
- DNR forms committee to advise on wolf plan; to include hunter, farmer, advocacy groups | Madison
06th Mar 2021
- ‘Was that something we wanted to have happen? Absolutely not.’ Gray wolf kill rises to 216, 82% above state-licensed goal | Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
26th Feb 2021
- 20% Of Wisconsin Wolves To Be Killed After Court Sides With Hunters | HuffPost
22nd Feb 2021
- Wisconsin DNR narrowly rejects immediate wolf hunt | WLNS
24th Jan 2021
- Wisconsin says wolf season will be held next November | lacrosse tribune
05th Dec 2020
- Liberalizing the killing of endangered wolves was associated with more disappearances of collared individuals in Wisconsin, USA | Scientific Reports
22nd Aug 2020
- Wolf Population Appears Stable In Wisconsin | WXPR
03rd Aug 2020
- Tracking wolves through sound: Wis. professor leads innovative study in Wood County | WSAW
28th Dec 2019
- Wolves expand their territory in Wisconsin | WBAY
18th Jan 2019
Journal Articles
Preliminary Estimate of Impact of Impact of Recommended DNR Quota on WI Wolf Population. Treves, A., 2021.
Liberalizing the killing of endangered wolves was associated with more disappearances of collared individuals in Wisconsin, USA. Santiago-Ávila FJ, Chappell RJ, Treves A. Scientific Reports. 2020 Aug
Keepers of the Wolves. Martin ME. Journal of Mammalogy. 2020 Mar
Deer, wolves, and people: costs, benefits and challenges of living together. Martin JL, Chamaillé‐Jammes S, Waller DM. Biological Reviews. 2020 Feb
A landscape of overlapping risks for wolf-human conflict in Wisconsin, USA. Olson ER, Van Deelen TR, Wydeven AP, Ruid DB, MacFarland DM, Ventura SJ. Journal of Environmental Management. 2019 Oct
Compensatory mortality in a recovering top carnivore: wolves in Wisconsin, USA (1979–2013)
JL Stenglein, AP Wydeven, TR Van Deelen – Oecologia, 2018
Risk map for wolf threats to livestock still predictive 5 years after construction. Treves A, Rabenhorst MF. PloS one. 2017 Jun
HTML] Blood may buy goodwill: no evidence for a positive relationship between legal culling and poaching in Wisconsin
A Stien – Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological …, 2017
Gray wolf mortality patterns in Wisconsin from 1979 to 2012
A Treves, JA Langenberg, JV López-Bao… – Journal of …, 2017
Changes in attitudes toward wolves before and after an inaugural public hunting and trapping season: early evidence from Wisconsin’s wolf range
J Hogberg, A Treves, B Shaw… – Environmental …, 2016
Estimating the Age of Male Gray Wolves (Canis lupus) Using Baculum Measurements
LR Walleser, SM Crimmins… – The Canadian Field …, 2016
Pendulum swings in wolf management led to conflict, illegal kills, and a legislated wolf hunt
ER Olson, JL Stenglein, V Shelley… – Conservation …, 2015
Wisconsin wolf management: a cauldron of controversy
LD Mech – Conflicts in Conservation: Navigating Towards …, 2015
Tolerance of wolves in Wisconsin: a mixed-methods examination of policy effects on attitudes and behavioral inclinations
C Browne-Nuñez, A Treves, D MacFarland… – Biological …, 2015
Mortality patterns and detection bias from carcass data: an example from wolf recovery in Wisconsin
JL Stenglein, TR Van Deelen… – The Journal of …, 2015
Wolves, lone and pack: Ojibwe treaty rights and the Wisconsin wolf hunt. Sanders JD. Wis. L. REv.. 2013
Hunters as stewards of wolves in Wisconsin and the Northern Rocky Mountains, USA. Treves A, Martin KA. Society & Natural Resources. 2011 Sep
The price of tolerance: wolf damage payments after recovery. Treves A, Jurewicz RL, Naughton-Treves L, Wilcove DS. Biodiversity and Conservation. 2009 Dec
Paying for tolerance: rural citizens’ attitudes toward wolf depredation and compensation. NAUGHTON‐TREVES LI, Grossberg R, Treves A. Conservation biology. 2003 Dec
Death of gray wolves, canis lupus, in porcupine erethizon dorsatum, dens in wisconsin. Wydeven AP, Boles SR, Schultz RN, Doolittle T. The Canadian Field-Naturalist. 2003
Road density as a factor in habitat selection by wolves and other carnivores in the Great Lakes Region
BE Kohn, R Thiel, JL Hansen – Carnivore Conservation in …, 2001
Travel, range, and food habits of timber wolves in Wisconsin. Thompson DQ. Journal of Mammalogy. 1952 Nov