Wolf Sighting in Wayne County

Deb F
Northville, MI

Date of Sighting:  Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Time of Sighting: 2:00 PM

Wayne County

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Wolf Sighting in Kalamazoo County

Name Penny B
Mattawan, Michigan

Date of Sighting:  Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Time of Sighting:  5:30 pm

Kalamazoo County

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Interview: Jill Fritz, Keep Michigan Wolves Protected - CW7 Michigan - Kalamazoo TV :: News - Top Stories

KALAMAZOO, Mich. (NEWSCHANNEL 3) - This past week, Governor Rick Snyder signed legislation that could lead to the first wolf hunting season in Michigan since the animal was put on the endangered species list in 1974.

The new law empowers the State Natural Resources Commission to decide which types of animals can be hunted.

The law has created much controversy as many have fought to protect the wolves.

Jill Fritz, Director of Keep Michigan Wolves Protected, joined us in the studio Sunday morning to give her thoughts on why the legislation should not have passed.


See the Story Here:  CW7 Michigan - Kalamazoo TV :: News - Top Stories - Interview: Jill Fritz, Keep Michigan Wolves Protected

Save the Wolves of Isle Royale National Park - NYTimes.com

IN Lake Superior lies a remote island, Isle Royale National Park, 134,000 acres of boreal and hardwood forests where a life-or-death struggle between wolves and moose has been the subject of the world’s longest study of predators and their prey, now in its 55th year.
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Moose first appeared on this Michigan island in the first decade of the 20th century, apparently by swimming from the mainland. With no predator to challenge them, the moose population surged (interspersed by two crashes, from starvation) and devastated the island’s vegetation in search of food. Then wolves arrived in the late 1940s by crossing an ice bridge from Canada, and began to bring balance to an ecosystem that had lurched out of control.

Michigan wolf hunt | freep.com | Detroit Local News | Detroit Free Press

A photo essay from the Detroit Free Press on wolves in the Upper Peninsula

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Wolf hunt allows controversial steel-jaw traps | Detroit Free Press | freep.com

The wolf hunt this November and December will allow for the use of steel-jaw leg traps, raising criticism from those who consider it a cruel practice and who question allowing traps on public lands.

Adam Bump, a Michigan Department of Natural Resources bear and furbearer specialist, said only foothold traps will be allowed.

Residents say Michigan's wolves 'becoming more comfortable around people' as hunt is scheduled | MLive.com

At sunset on an April evening, Shannon Lutz opened the back door of her home and walked out on the deck to let her three dogs outside.

That’s when she heard the growling, gnashing and nipping of three or four animals disturbing the quiet near the heart of Wakefield – a town of roughly 1,850 in Michigan’s western Upper Peninsula.