Hello fellow predator hunters!
I have been doing some research on the Gray Wolf and Red Wolf finding its way into Pennsylvania. I thought I would also post some of what I found here too.
This article is about Gray Wolves ending up in Indiana and Missouri. If you kill a really big coyote, or a large canine, it just may be a Gray Wolf or Red Wolf. Here is the info quoted from the article and the links to the stories.
Quote:
WildIndiana - Gray Wolf Look about 3/4 down the page from the bottom.
Another link to a good article is here:
Post-Crescent - Wolf struck by car. + Indiana kill
I am doing some more research on the Gray Wolf at "HuntingPA.com". The link to the site is here if you are interested.
HuntingPA.com Predator Hunting Forum
If you are in a state that usually does not have Gray Wolves and you hear about one, please reply to my post "The Gray Wolf is on the way." by nrarick
Thanks!
titanium (aka "nrarick" at HuntingPA.com)
P.S. If you shoot an animal that looks like a wolf, it may in fact be one. Don't throw it over a bank to rot thinking it is a dog! It may also be a wolf hybrid. More at HuntingPA.com
I have been doing some research on the Gray Wolf and Red Wolf finding its way into Pennsylvania. I thought I would also post some of what I found here too.
This article is about Gray Wolves ending up in Indiana and Missouri. If you kill a really big coyote, or a large canine, it just may be a Gray Wolf or Red Wolf. Here is the info quoted from the article and the links to the stories.
Quote:
The link to this article is here:Monday, August 04, 2003
Wisconsin wolf turns up in Indiana
Indiana Department of Natural Resources biologists occasionally get calls from people reporting sightings of mountain lions, bears or wolves. Most of these sightings are cases of mistaken identity. These large predators, which once roamed Indiana, are now absent from the state.
Last month, however, a Randolph County resident wasn't crying wolf when he reported a large canine found dead in a soybean field. Indiana DNR and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials retrieved the remains of a young male gray wolf that had traveled more than 400 miles from its birthplace in northern Wisconsin.
"This is the most southern movement we've ever detected of a Wisconsin wolf and is really a pretty remarkable example of a young male wolf dispersing from its pack to try and establish its own territory," said Adrian Wydeven, a mammalian ecologist and wolf specialist for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.
"This wolf was found more than 407 miles away in a straight line across the map, which cuts across the bottom of Lake Michigan, so it is obvious he actually traveled much farther, especially considering he had to get around the greater metropolitan Chicago and Gary areas." U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials are currently investigating the wolf's remains to determine a cause of death.
The wolf was initially captured east of Black River Falls in Jackson County, Wis. in August 2002 as a 46-pound pup. He was a member of the Wildcat Mound Pack in the Black River State Forest where he was probably born in April 2002. He was fitted with an ear tag transmitter that allowed biologists to track his movements. The transmitter failed after Jan. 15, 2003, at which time he was still in his home territory in Wisconsin. Wolf dispersal normally occurs when wolves are 1 or 2 years old.
"They leave their home pack and travel some distance to join a new pack, or find a mate and empty wild area where they establish their own territory," Wydeven said. "Wisconsin wolves normally disperse an average of 70 miles from home, and the previous record was a 300 mile move of a northern Wisconsin wolf into Canada." Other records in North America include travels as far as 550 miles. Wolves most commonly disperse in fall and winter, but it can happen any time of the year. The pressure of a new litter about to be born into the Wildcat Pack in April may have encouraged this wolf to leave, Wydeven said. Indiana DNR biologist Scott Johnson doesn't think that the presence of this single wolf heralds a return of large predators to Indiana.
"With the information available now, it appears this is an isolated case of extreme dispersal. It's unlikely that wolves would settle in the agricultural, industrial and suburban landscapes that dominate Indiana," said Johnson. "We don't have the large tracts of forested or undeveloped land that wolf packs need to thrive." The Randolph County wolf was the third Great Lakes region wolf known to have wandered well south of its home range in the past two years. In 2001, a wolf that had been fitted with a radio collar in Michigan was shot in northeastern Missouri. Another Great Lakes wolf was shot in Marshall County Illinois last December.
Gray wolves, which are also known as timber wolves, have slowly increased in numbers in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan since they were listed as a federally endangered species in 1974. And although they were downgraded to threatened this spring, they still are protected under federal law in all states but Alaska.
Johnson is not concerned about wolves endangering humans. "There has never been a case of a wild wolf killing a person in North America. The handful of cases involving injuries from wolf bites were cases in which wolves were accustomed to being fed by people," said Johnson.
posted 3:14 PM
WildIndiana - Gray Wolf Look about 3/4 down the page from the bottom.
Another link to a good article is here:
Post-Crescent - Wolf struck by car. + Indiana kill
I am doing some more research on the Gray Wolf at "HuntingPA.com". The link to the site is here if you are interested.
HuntingPA.com Predator Hunting Forum
If you are in a state that usually does not have Gray Wolves and you hear about one, please reply to my post "The Gray Wolf is on the way." by nrarick
Thanks!
titanium (aka "nrarick" at HuntingPA.com)
P.S. If you shoot an animal that looks like a wolf, it may in fact be one. Don't throw it over a bank to rot thinking it is a dog! It may also be a wolf hybrid. More at HuntingPA.com