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
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
- 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
- Scientist at work: Identifying individual gray wolves by their howls | The Conversation
14th Jul 2018
- Federal Government Reviewing Removing Gray Wolf From Endangered Species List | Wisconsin Public Radio
04th Jun 2018
- Conservationists line up against ending wolf management | KSL
14th Jan 2018
- Patricia Randolph’s Madravenspeak: Bill would let wolf poachers kill with impunity | Column | The Cap Times
04th Dec 2017
- Red Cliff Tribe To Trap, Collar Wolves This Fall | Wisconsin Public Radio
04th Oct 2017
- Clashes with wolves: Wisconsin wildlife is hounded with unbearable cruelty | Wisconsin Gazette
07th Sep 2017
- Smith: Hunters and severe winters — not wolves — key to Wisconsin’s deer numbers | Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
24th Aug 2017
- Complaint: Wisconsin Bear Hunters ‘Criminally Harassing’ Wolves | Wisconsin Public Radio
15th Aug 2017
- Gray wolves in northern Wisconsin are saving the forest | Wolves of Douglas County Wisconsin
21st Jul 2017
- Wolf Population Stabilizing in Wisconsin | Public News Service
13th Jul 2017
Journal Articles
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