Here's a little article about the wolves in Northern WI. http://www.northernwisconsin.com/wolfreport.htm
I have shared a few wolf stories in earlier posts, but there's one I don't think I've shared! If I have, please forgive me.
I frequently travel to a hospital in "Boondocks" (names have been changed, hehe), MI to work. It's a very remote little town deep in the North Woods. I could tell you stories about how remote this little town is!
Up here, many of the wolves are marked with radio collars to track their travel, habits, etc. (That's one of the ways I knew for sure I had seen a wolf - he was wearing a collar)
Anyways - I work closely with this Dr. who is also the medical examiner. His best friend was a helicopter pilot, and part of his job was to study these wolves with the radio collars on. I guess Dr. H. used to fly with him sometimes. I don't know what exactly he did - but he had to observe them from the air. About a year or so ago his helicopter crashed while he was studying the wolves. It took them a while (a day or two, I think) to find him. Since Dr. H. was the medical examiner, it was his responsibility to go to the scene and examine the body of his best friend. By the time they found him, he had been eviscerated by animals - though they didn't reveal which animals had been eating him.
Wild, huh? In addition to wolves and bears, we have a lot of bald eagles and other wildlife. Though local people have been reporting cougar sightings for years, it wasn't until last year that the DNR finally admitted to it.
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