Wolves Making a Comeback in Northern Michigan

"The Michigan Department of Natural Resources this year added an auspicious new chapter to the story of the gray wolf’s recovery in the Great Lakes region. With its team of professionals, volunteers, and a fleet of off-road vehicles, the agency is searching for evidence that healthy wolves have established a breeding pack in the thick forests of northern Michigan, one of the fastest growing regions of the Midwest. According to Brian Mastenbrook, the DNR’s wildlife habitat biologist, there is no doubt that,

Last December, a study by researchers at Northland College in Ashland, Wis., found that 90 percent of those surveyed said wolves should be allowed to live throughout Michigan...The survey underscored the emotional, educational, and ideological impediments that wolves face in the Upper Midwest. Michigan’s history is one of rapaciousness when it comes to the natural realm...All that’s left of the tens of millions of acres of virgin white pine, hemlock, spruce, cedar, and maple that blanketed Michigan until the early 20th century are a few trees protected in state parks. Wolves were part of that sad tradition..."