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Due to a history of extensive hunting and trapping, Michigan’s wolf population — once found across the state — dwindled to near-extinction in the 1950s. The Endangered Species Act of 1973 ...
Michigan voters then rejected wolf hunting in two statewide ballot measures in November 2014. But the Legislature and Gov. Rick Snyder, at the urging of hunting groups, restored the wolf hunt that ...
The wolf was killed in Calhoun County, roughly 300 miles (482 kilometers) south of the Upper Peninsula, during coyote hunting season. The DNR said it learned about it through social media posts.
The wolf was killed in January by a hunter who told investigators that he had mistaken it for a coyote. It was a shock: While gray wolves are common in Michigan's Upper Peninsula — the latest estimate is more than 700 — the state's southern Lower Peninsula doesn't offer the proper habitat.
The wolf is a fundamental component of kinship and identity for Anishinaabe people. [36] They view the wolf as a relative, a brother. [37] The wolf is ingrained in the Anishinaabe people's soul and identity through legends, clan membership, and culture (other Indigenous Nations have their own, and sometimes different relationship with the wolf).
Wolf packs on the island have been known to fight to try to extend their territory and, thus, supply of moose. In 2006, the East pack killed Chippewa Harbor pack's alpha male, as witnessed by John Vucetich, a professor at Michigan Technological University and one of the lead researchers on the island, who believed that the Chippewa Harbor pack ...
Fewer than 1,000 wolves roamed in the U.S. at that time, according to the International Wolf Center. Protected from hunting, gray wolves began to proliferate, and some people grew concerned they ...
Paul Collins, Wisconsin director for Animal Wellness Action, part of a group that in October 2021 led a successful lawsuit to stop a Wisconsin wolf hunting and trapping season planned that fall ...