Remember that the wolf and it's range is politically charged.

The truth is obscured by anti-hunting groups.

Wolves are retaking their original range..............................Nature takes it's natural path; and as always hunters must assume their natural role !!!

As always, just one man's opinion

I'm glad miked3 brought it up, as i know for a fact that a young wolf from eastern Jackson Co WI was found dead in an Indiana Field.

Wolves where not planted in WI they came from MN. Stop blaming the DNR. It was a Federal program as the Feds listed them endangered.
Link'
http://www.fws.gov/midwest/wolf/abou.../r3wolfrec.htm

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Wisconsin

From 1960 to 1975 there were no breeding wolves in Wisconsin. But after the wolf was listed as federally endangered, wolves began returning, apparently dispersing from Minnesota. The Wisconsin DNR started monitoring wolves in 1979 by radio-collaring and tracking wolves, surveying for winter tracks, and conducting summer howling surveys.

Oh and I don't like them anymore than you do. The wolf in northern WI has stopped me from hunting many grouse woods.


I do follow this
http://dnr.wi.gov/topic/WildlifeHabi...f/dogdeps.html

JW

No shortage of them here. Cougar too.

I will agree that there are wolves much more than years past, but also, many wolves that people see are really coyotes. I live in N. WI in an area with a fair amount of agriculture. In 20+ years, I am yet to hear one howl at night, nor see one that I knew for sure was a wolf. Yet nearby neighbors tell me of all the wolves they see! Hear many coyotes though. And up until recently, I was out, every other night, at dark or near dark, jogging back roads, so I saw just about every animal there was to see - deer, bear, badgers, bobcats, coyotes, but not one wolf (for sure). I saw one large coyote, once, that may have been a wolf. And there are wolves within 10 miles of us, I just don't think they like smaller broken up woods when there are larger blocks of woods available. (Or maybe the farmers are keeping them out) And I know what a wolf howl sounds like as I was camping once in N. MN and heard them very close by - will never forget that sound!

MZS, I live here to, working as a logger all day long in the woods, i see wolves, there tracts & scat, ALL DAY LONG. Coyotes are way smaller with pointy little noses. Wolves are thick in Wisconsin.

To put it bluntly, anyone confusing a Wolf And Coyote either needs some serious eye care or an education on what a wolf looks like. About the only similarity between the 2 is they have 4 legs and are canine. IN Coyotes are on the large side 45 pounds and that will be a BIG one. An average adult Timber wolf is closer to 90 pounds and can run in upwards of 150 in the lower 48. I've personally never seen one in Indiana but that for sure means little. I have seen some vague signs of them around the IN and IL border where I hunt a lot. I do know I have blasted in upwards of 50 coyotes in that area alone. They breed like rats around there for some odd reason. But I have yet to lay eyes on a Wolf there. Probably just a little too much competition with that many coyotes in the area.

So what would you say this is? Coyote or Wolf?

Thats a hybrid and a darn big one too judging from the rear quarter. Hard to tell without a full picture and some "landmarks" to judge but from what little I can see in that tiny pic it looks to be a full grown male that took MOST of it's genetics from it's Wolf daddy.

MZS,

What state did you see him in ?

Is that a trail camera shot ?

That sure would make a nice mount - huh !