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STATE WOLF POPULATION PUSHES ABOVE 800
Monday, April 18th, 2011 -- 11:30 am
Posted by Riley Hebert-News Director
Researchers say Wisconsin's wolf population has risen to a modern record of about 825 animals in over 200 packs.
That's and increase of 100 over the previous counting period, according to Adrian Wydeven, wolf ecologist for the Department of Natural Resources.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports the number was released Friday at the annual Wisconsin Wolf Stakeholder Committee meeting in Wausau. It came out a day after the Fish and Wildlife Service announced plans to remove wolves in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan from the
Records show 47 farms sustained wolf depredation in 2010.
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