Gray wolf confirmed in Mich. area; second since 1910
Ok, so where's that damn dentist these days? He may be needing someone to follow him around to make sure he doesn't decide to go "hunting" in Michigan.
"DETROIT — It took a year and a half, but there's now no doubt: The animal spotted on a trail camera in Emmet County in the northwestern Lower Peninsula was indeed a gray wolf — only the second one confirmed in the Lower Peninsula since 1910.
The wolf was confirmed on the reservation land of the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians. After spotting wolf-like tracks and seeing what appeared to be a wolf on a trail camera in March 2014, tribal biologists were able to collect scat and send it to Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario, for analysis. The results came back last week and confirmed a gray wolf. They also show it is not likely an escaped captive wolf, as its genetic information closely matches that of wolves in northeast Ontario.
Tracks found on reservation land indicate there could be two wolves, said Kevin Swanson, the state Department of Natural Resources' bear and wolf specialist based in Marquette.
The DNR has regularly conducted wolf track surveys in the northern Lower Peninsula since 2003, anticipating the possibility of a southern migration of wolves as numbers rebounded in the Upper Peninsula. The most recent winter wolf survey by the DNR in 2014 showed 636 wolves in the U.P. ..."
More:http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/09/17/gray-wolf-confirmed-mich-area-second-since-1910/72369660/
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