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.

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 ...

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 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 ...

ST PAUL, Minn — Minnesota's population of gray wolves is resilient and robust, wildlife managers said Thursday as they released a draft updated plan to keep it that way. The Department of ...

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 ...

Minnesota had the only reproducing gray wolf population in the U.S. outside of Alaska when, in 1973, the animals were listed under the Endangered Species Act, protecting them from hunts.

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 ...

WCCO Digital Update: afternoon of June 23, 2022 01:45. ST. PAUL, Minn. — Minnesota's population of gray wolves is resilient and robust, wildlife managers said Thursday as they released a draft ...