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The largest population of timber wolves remaining in the United States (excluding Alaska) lives in northern Minnesota. Many of these wolves inhabit the Superior National Forest, so protecting the habitat of this endangered species is largely a Forest Service responsibility.
However, on April 17, 1051 was back in the general vicinity of the kill, and he and another wolf were resting on an open hillside about 100 feet from each other. As we descended...
4. Part 4"Suddenly two deer, which we had noticed S. of the wolf earlier, fled across the highway. The wolf soon got to the point where they crossed, hesitated about a minute and then ra...
8. Part 8In past winters some kills had been located that had been only partly eaten, but in each case the carcasses were soon revisited and cleaned up (Mech 1970). This was often not th...
7. Part 7However, it appears that the higher harvest of bucks by human hunters does markedly affect the sex ratio of the deer population in the hunted area, for the wolf-kill of adults i...
2. Part 2No. 1057 and No. 1059 were both members of packs. No. 1057 was captured during the night after a pack of 13 wolves was seen heading toward the area; 5 days later she was seen wi...
5. Part 5Indirect evidence based on comparisons of pack-size distributions for different periods indicates that the wolf density in the study area may have increased since 1953, but that...
1. Part 1The largest population of timber wolves remaining in the United States (excluding Alaska) lives in northern Minnesota. Many of these wolves inhabit the Superior National Forest,...
6. Part 6A further result obtained by aging the wolf-killed deer pertained to the young individuals killed. The deciduous first incisors of fawns and the deciduous premolars of yearlings...