Renowned Minnesota wolf researcher Dave Mech was in his early 20s and a graduate student at Purdue University when he arrived on Isle Royale in 1958 to study the predator-prey relationship between ...

Sarah Hoy spends winter in a small cabin on a remote, snow-covered island colonized by wolves. Drinking water comes from a hole in the ice on Lake Superior, which surrounds the island. A generator ...

BILLINGS – Since wolves were reintroduced into Yellowstone National Park in 1995, Kristin Barker jokingly estimated there have been “12.75 bajillion studies” conducted to answer: How a recovering ...

Dave Mech wrote the book on wolf research, literally, back in 1970, and has just kept going ever since. Renowned as among the most influential wolf biologists worldwide, Mech, set the bar 50 years ago ...

Rolf Peterson is a research professor at Michigan Technological University in Houghton, where he holds a Robbins Chair in Sustainable Environmental Management. In addition to studying wolf-prey ...

On a small island near Gustavus, a wolf pack has decimated the local deer population – and started feeding on sea otters instead. The shift underscored coastal wolves’ adaptability. But then one died.

Late in the afternoon of Oct. 15, Dennis Nitz hunkered down in a hunter's blind fashioned of tree boughs in a forest clearing near Eau Claire. It was the day Wisconsin hunters began gunning for wolves ...

Already the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and the state Legislature have plans to open a sport hunting and trapping season on the wolf. MinnPost’s reporters work hard to bring you ...

The gray wolf is a common motif in Eurasia and North America, corresponding with the wolf’s geographic location. As a predator, the wolf is strongly associated with danger and destruction. In modern ...

The first education session on wolf reintroduction will happen this month and the public is invited to attend. On April 28, from 6 to 8 p.m., two experts from Montana and Idaho will present to the ...