Gray wolf population in state has 'taken off'
The Associated Press
MADISON — A preliminary estimate of Wisconsin's gray wolf population put it at between 539 and 590 during the winter, compared with a maximum of 502 a year earlier, the state Department of Natural Resources says.
The winter population estimate is the highest since wolves returned to Wisconsin from Minnesota during the mid-1970s.
Adrian Wydeven, a wolf ecologist for the agency, attributed the rise in the population to several factors, including an abundance of public land, a teeming deer population and wolves' population dynamics through which it has grown steadily "and then just seems to have taken off."
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