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Wolves may be returning to Door County (Wisconsin)
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| 6-29-03
Posted on 06/29/2003 12:25:41 PM PDT by Dan from Michigan
Wolves may be returning to Door County
The Associated Press
6/29/2003, 2:02 p.m. ET
NEWPORT STATE PARK, Wis. (AP) Wolves are continuing their remarkable comeback by returning to one of the most unlikely spots in northern Wisconsin tourist-rich Door County.
There may now be as many as a half dozen animals in the county coming in from Michigan's Upper Peninsula, said Adrian Wydeven, head of the state Department of Natural Resources wolf recovery program.
Door County is an unlikely spot for wolves because it is cut off from northern Wisconsin wolf packs by the Sturgeon Bay canal and by the City of Green Bay and its suburbs.
"Door County has never had a confirmed wolf," DNR warden Mike Neal said. "They're not supposed to be here."
But last month, an 82-pound timber wolf was shot by a hunter at the northern end of the county. The shooter claimed he mistook the wolf for a coyote.
Although it is illegal for a hunter to shoot a timber wolf, the hunter was not charged.
The wolves may be crossing Green Bay through Chambers Island, about seven miles away from both Door County and Michigan's Menominee County. The animals could also be island-hopping south from the Garden Peninsula.
Wisconsin may be overfilling with wolves, which are steadily creeping out of the forests and into the paved corners of the state.
The latest count in the state is 335, though Wydeven said there may be more, since wolves that leave their packs are hard to track.
The comeback is just the latest chapter for the once-reviled species.
Wolves in Wisconsin were hunted, trapped and poisoned to near extinction by the 1950s, but under protections from the Endangered Species Act, they have steadily expanded in the past two decades from northern Minnesota into Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula.
The federal government in April reclassified the wolf from "endangered" to "threatened." That means problem animals, such as those that grow addicted to livestock or pets, can be killed by state or federal employees.
TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Michigan; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: environment; wisconsin; wolves; yoopers
To: Dan from Michigan
ummmmmmmm isn't it a little difficult to mistake a 35lb coyote for an 83lb wolf?
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posted on
06/29/2003 12:38:21 PM PDT
by
agitator
(Ok, mic check...line one...)
To: Dan from Michigan
"
Wolves are continuing their remarkable comeback by returning to one of the most unlikely spots in northern Wisconsin" They've returned to the Supreme Court too.
To: Dan from Michigan
It's all them doggone lighthouses- wolves is drawed right to 'em.
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posted on
06/29/2003 12:44:04 PM PDT
by
niteowl77
(Pray for our troops... harder.)
To: farmfriend
ping
To: Dan from Michigan
Let's see how hard they cry when a pet or a child of theirs gets snatched. The more I know about my neigbors, the more I like wild animals....
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posted on
06/29/2003 1:22:38 PM PDT
by
TheSpottedOwl
(America...love it or leave it. Canada is due north-Mexico is directly south...start walking.)
To: Dan from Michigan
This may mean we can get a campsite at Peninsula State Park this summer. There's the Great Outdoors (Bambi) and then there's the GREAT OUTDOORS (Hungry Like The....). I figure once they see a wolf, they'll be packing up & heading out.
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posted on
06/29/2003 1:55:38 PM PDT
by
Catspaw
To: Catspaw
Don't they already have Bears up there? I know North Michigan has em, and the UP is known for them.
Bears would scare me more than a wolf.
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posted on
06/29/2003 1:57:43 PM PDT
by
Dan from Michigan
(Liberals - "The suckiest bunch of sucks that ever sucked")
To: Dan from Michigan
Sure they have bears, primarily in northern Door. There have been a few seen in Peninsula State Park & in the wooded areas around Door County (north and south). Heck, they've even had bears wander into Appleton and that's 30 miles south of me (Green Bay).
I do remember getting a campsite at Peninsula a few years back when a skunk wandered through a campsite & the family was outta there early next morning. "Outdoors" for cityfolk means cute deer and a few birds. They only realize that there are racoons in the park when the stuff they left out on the picnic table disappears overnight. Telling them that bear & wolf are wandering the park would clear out about 75% of the campers.
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posted on
06/29/2003 2:13:03 PM PDT
by
Catspaw
To: Catspaw
I'd pay big bucks to see a populated camp get cleared out by a bear or wolf...especially if I had a camera and was nearby.
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posted on
06/29/2003 2:19:45 PM PDT
by
Dan from Michigan
(Liberals - "The suckiest bunch of sucks that ever sucked")
To: Dan from Michigan
I came face to face with a wolf in my back pasture last winter. This happened in S.E. Indiana. I fed it Polska Kielbasa.
It was an escapee from my neigbor's sanctuary.
To: Dan from Michigan
I'd pay big bucks to see a populated camp get cleared out by a bear or wolf...especially if I had a camera and was nearby.LOL! So would I. Communing with nature has its limits :-))
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posted on
06/29/2003 2:47:16 PM PDT
by
Catspaw
To: Dan from Michigan; marsh2; dixiechick2000; Mama_Bear; doug from upland; WolfsView; Issaquahking; ...
Rights, farms, environment ping.
Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from this list.
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posted on
06/29/2003 3:33:14 PM PDT
by
farmfriend
( Isaiah 55:10,11)
To: Dan from Michigan
May all the local environmentalists now fear to tread in the forest.
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posted on
06/29/2003 3:57:57 PM PDT
by
Carry_Okie
(California: Where government is pornography, every day!)
To: Dan from Michigan
Four years ago I was camping on Lake Tahoe.
The city-slickers in the campsite(50%+) left their coolers, etc. on their tables overnight, and attracted a black bear two nights in a row. The first night of destroyed coolers and freaked-out kids wasn't enough, evidently.
Both nights the bear fled after I blew my whistle. Those whistles do work, you know. ;^)
To: Dan from Michigan
Four years ago I was camping on Lake Tahoe.
The city-slickers in the campsite(50%+) left their coolers, etc. on their tables overnight, and attracted a black bear two nights in a row. The first night of destroyed coolers and freaked-out kids wasn't enough, evidently.
Both nights the bear fled after I blew my whistle. Those whistles do work, you know. ;^)
To: farmfriend
BTTT!!!!!!
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posted on
06/30/2003 3:20:40 AM PDT
by
E.G.C.
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