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Article: Wisconsin wolf population keeps increasing, DNR says.
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- Duluth News-Tribune (Duluth, MN)
- Article date:
- June 7, 2006
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Jun. 7--Wisconsin's wolf population continues a slow increase, with the state's annual winter survey showing somewhere between 465 to 502 animals. That's up about 7 percent from last year's count of 435 to 467, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources reported Tuesday.
Biologists have conducted annual wolf population surveys since the winter of 1979, when the number of wolves began increasing after the animal was extinct for decades in the state. The survey doesn't include pups born this spring. Wisconsin now has far more wolves than called for in the federal wolf recovery plan for the region, and the federal government is in the process of ...