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The Gray Wolf (Canis Lupus)

Also Known As: Timber Wolf

MN Status: Special Concern?

Federal Status: Threatened

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General Facts: Gray Wolf

Identification Length: About 40 to 52 inches, with 13 to

19-inch tail Weight: 60 to 120 pounds Color: Gray, Black, Brown, White or

Reddish Food: Elk, Deer, Moose and Caribou,

Beaver, Rabbits Population: 7,000 to 11,200 wolves in Alaska

and more than 5,000 in the lower 48 states Geographic Range: Michigan's Upper

Peninsula, northern Minnesota, Wisconsin, Alaska and Canada

Biomes: These highly adaptive animals once inhabited a variety of biomes within North America including boreal forest, temperate deciduous forest and temperate grassland

Habitat: The forested areas of Northern Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin.

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Special Concern in Minnesota

A species is considered a species of special concern if, although the species is not endangered or threatened, it isextremely uncommon in Minnesota, or has unique or highly specific habitat requirements and deserves carefulmonitoring of its status.

Wolves where first protected by the Endangered Species Act of 1973.They are no longer endangered.

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As of June 11, 2008, the Gray Wolf is still listed as a special concern in Minnesota on the “Minnesota’s List of Endangered, Threatened, and Special Concern Species”.

Human-Related Problems: Hunted year-round in every national park in the U.S.

Retreated to most wild areas on continent Loss of habitat

Hunted to near extinction by ranchers and land owners Kills farm stock Improves overall health of livestock

Range: Wolves were once common throughout all of North America but were killed in most areas of the United States by the mid 1930s.

Reasons for Endangerment

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Isle Royale

By the time wolves were protected by the Endangered Species Act of 1973, only a few hundred remained in extreme northeastern Minnesota and a small number on Isle Royale, Michigan.

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Federally Threatened

Wolves are making a comeback in the Great Lakes, Northern Rockies and Southwestern United States.

Bush administration rushes to strip protections from Northern Rockies wolves

January 14, 2009 - In a last-ditch effort by the Bush administration to undermine environmental protections, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that the Northern Rockies gray wolf will be taken off the Endangered Species List.

• Obama suspends delisting of gray wolves on his first day as

president.

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Current Gray Wolf Range and Southwest Recovery Area

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Resources & References Gray Wolves:

http://www.thewildones.org/Animals/grayWolf.html

Gray Wolf-Defenders of Wildlife:  http://www.defenders.org/wildlife_and_habitat/wildlife/wolf,_gray.php

Gray Wolf Recovery:  http://www.fws.gov/midwest/wolf/recovery/r3wolfct.htm

Gray Wolf Population in U.S.:  http://www.fws.gov/midwest/wolf/population/status-map.htm

International Wolf Center:  http://www.wolf.org/wolves/learn/intermed/inter_mgmt/endangered.asp

Parvovirus is killing wolf pups in Minnesota:  http://www.startribune.com/local/34718879.html?elr=KArksUUUU

MN DNR-Gray Wolf:  http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/snapshots/mammals/graywolf.html

Isle Royale Map:  http://troop777bsa.homestead.com/isle_royale_aREA.jpg

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