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Canadian gray wolf12/15/2023 ![]() ![]() Status: Federally protected with exceptions as a nonessential experimental population. » North Carolina: 15 known (As of May 2023) Status: Population state managed as both a big game animal and a furbearer, management includes intensive predator control programs. Fish and Wildlife’s Mexican Wolf Recovery Reports. Fact Sheet re 2015 Final Rule courtesy USFWS. ![]() » New Mexico: 136 ( 2022 population survey) Status: Federally protected in the western two-thirds of the state, state/tribe managed in the eastern one-third. » Washington: 216 individual wolves in 37 family groups/packs ( April 2023). Wolves in the western portion of the state (west of Hwys 395-78-95) lost federal protections in January 2021 and regained federal protections in February 2022. Status: Wolves throughout Oregon were delisted from the state Endangered Species Act (ESA) on November 9, 2015. Status: Federally protected and State endangered. » California: The Whaleback pack has 10 wolves, the Lassen pack has approximately 12 wolves, and the Beckwourth pack has 2 to 3 wolves. Fish and Wildlife Service’s 2012 decision to remove gray wolves in Wyoming from the endangered species list -March 2017) More information. Montana's wolf management plan includes an annual harvest season. » Montana: 1,141 (2021 - Patch Occupancy Model) Idaho’s wolf management plan includes an annual hunting season. » Idaho: ~1,543 (2021 - Based on remote camera surveys) GRAY WOLVES IN THE NORTHERN ROCKY MOUNTAIN STATES Between 2018 - 2019, a total 19 wolves were relocated to Isle Royale from the mainland of US and Canada. NPS Wolf Relocation Project: September 2018 - National Park Service began its wolf relocation project - a planned "genetic rescue" of Isle Royale’s dwindling wolf population to keep the species going and allow the unique ecological study that began 60 years ago to continue. Federally delisted in January 2021 and relisted in February 2022. Additionally, people are not permitted to hunt on Isle Royale. Federally delisted in January 2021 and relisted in February 2022. GRAY WOLVES IN THE WESTERN GREAT LAKE STATES Fish and Wildlife Service and state agencies: Gray wolf populations according to the U.S. Due to the destruction of their habitat and persecution by humans, they now occupy only about two-thirds of their former range worldwide, and about 10 percent of their historic range in the continental 48 United States. They inhabited most of the available land in the northern hemisphere. Gray Wolves ( Canis lupus) were once among the most widely distributed wild mammals. ![]()
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