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Alaska is home to an estimated 7,000 to 11,000 wolves. Wolves have never been threatened or endangered in Alaska. Other names Grey wolf, timber wolf.
If you’re looking for the biggest wolves in Alaska, head to the Fortymile country. That’s where legendary Alaska wolf trapper and hunter Frank Glaser caught a 175-pound male in the summer of 1939, the largest wolf ever documented in Alaska. Glaser trapped the wolf on the Seventymile River near Eagle.
The Alexander Archipelago wolf is a subspecies of the gray or timber wolf and is found in southeast Alaska. The information that follows is from the referenced report by Person et al. (1996). This technical report was published by U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service.
Range map of wolf in the State of Alaska.
Wolf. The wolf (Canis lupus) occurs throughout mainland Alaska, on Unimak Island in the Aleutians, and on all of the major islands in Southeast except Admiralty, Baranof, and Chichagof. This range includes about 85 percent of Alaska's 586,000 square-mile area. Wolves are adaptable and exist in a wide variety of habitats extending from the rain ...
Living and Camping in Wolf Country. Because wolves are widespread, thousands of people live, work and enjoy outdoor activities in wolf country. Wolves rarely act aggressively toward people, but there have been instances in Alaska and Canada where wolves have attacked people.
Wolves are adaptable and exist in a wide variety of habitats extending from the rain forests of the Southeast Panhandle to the arctic tundra along the Beaufort Sea. Alaska is home to an estimated 7,000 to 11,000 wolves. Wolves have never been threatened or endangered in Alaska.
Description. In Alaska, wolves range in color from black to nearly white, with every shade of gray, tan and even "blue" between these extremes. Gray or black wolves are most common. They are nearly the size of deer, standing about 30 inches at the shoulders.
Wolf Defensive Behavior. Unlike bears, which usually attack when they feel that they, their cubs or their food are threatened, wolves rely on their speed and quickness to escape a threat. Wolves may dash toward an intruder but then veer of suddenly with sharp barks and snorts.
Few creatures embody the wilds of Alaska like the wolf. Silent and tireless hunters, they lope with fluid grace for hours across miles of snow-covered terrrain in search of prey. The wolf once ranged across most of the Northern Hemisphere above the 30th parallel, but its numbers and range have dwindled greatly.