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After the island’s wolf population crashed a decade ago - and the island’s moose population began growing out of control - ...
Isle Royale National Park officials had to kill a wolf that was becoming too conditioned to human food and displayed ...
A wolf on Isle Royale that had been going into campsites for human food has been killed after other measures to discourage it ...
Isle Royale National Park officials euthanized a wolf due to its habituation to human food and safety concerns.
Isle Royale National Park officials said they have killed a wolf on the island after it became "food-conditioned" and had ...
Managers of the remote island made the decision after noting the wolves had grown reliant on human food sources and had been ...
ISLE ROYALE, Mich. — Isle Royale officials have lethally removed a wolf that repeatedly obtained human food at campgrounds.
The wolf was seen repeatedly in campgrounds and developed areas, and dragged away food storage bags and backpacks at numerous ...
It was one of two seen dragging backpacks and bags of food away from campsites and developed areas, "exhibiting signs of ...
Then came the wolves. They arrived on the island sometime around the 1940s, likely traveling over a 15-mile bridge of ice that sometimes forms between Isle Royale and mainland Minnesota.
Isle Royale likely down to 1 wolf — here's why it's a big problem The loss of wolves on Isle Royale has thrown the predator-prey balance out-of-whack, leading to a population explosion of more ...
Throughout June and July, park managers at Isle Royale National Park became concerned with the activities of at least two ...