The Minnesotan gray wolf has been listed as a threatened, rather than an endangered, species since 1978 — a unique status among the lower 48 states only held by Minnesota until 2011.

Minnesota has estimated wintering population of 2,445 wolves. 2001 Minnesota writes wolf management plan, calling for hunting and trapping five years after ESA delisting.

Gray wolves in Minnesota, ... Wisconsin and Minnesota each held three wolf seasons before a federal judge put their wolves back on the list in December 2014. Michigan held one.

A 46-year-old man has been given probation and fined for killing a gray wolf in northern Minnesota with a semi-auotomatic rifle and later destroying the weapon for fear that conservation officials ...

A gray wolf peers through ferns in the woods north of Duluth, Minn., in 2017. The wolf had just been released by biologists with the 1854 Treaty Authority after being trapped and examined as part ...

During one of the periods, wolves were federally delisted, under the support of the DNR and then-Gov. Mark Dayton, a DFLer, Minnesota had wolf hunting and trapping seasons for three years, from ...

During one of the periods when wolves were federally delisted, under the support of the DNR and then-Gov. Mark Dayton, Minnesota held wolf hunting and trapping seasons for three years, from 2012 ...

The video, which has 5.5 million views, emerges as Stauber continues the fight to delist gray wolves through an act of Congress. Gray wolves in Minnesota are currently listed as “threatened” under the ...

A young gray wolf that’s been on the move since September, traveling from Minnesota to northern Wisconsin and still roaming, is helping biologists get a better understanding of a complex apex ...

According to a Jan. 11, 2025, citation issued by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, Lucas Dean Heusinkveld, 21, of Spring Valley, Minnesota, shot and killed a gray wolf while out ...

These numbers are important to consider because Minnesota’s wolf population is currently around 2,700, according to DNR estimates. So, unless wolf numbers take a dive, the MDNR could potentially allow ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – Wildlife managers say Minnesota’s gray wolf population is resilient and robust, and they’ve released a draft updated plan to keep it that way.