Program features wolves
Published Monday, August 4, 2003 11:38:00 AM Central Time
WATERSMEET — Nancy Warren, a spokesperson for the Timber Wolf
Alliance,
will present Thursday’s program at the Ottawa Visitor Center. Her
program is
entitled “Wolves of the Great Lakes.”
Warren has been involved with TWA since 1992. Her study of wolf
behavior led
to her membership and ultimately a position on the speaker’s bureau.
Michigan’s wolf population is now listed as threatened under the
federal and
state Endangered Species List. In 1989 the Michigan wolf population
was only
two. Today it has reached 321 in more than 68 packs. Wolves are now
found in
every county in the Upper Peninsula.
Unlike the successful wolf reintroduction efforts into Yellowstone
National
Park and central Idaho where biologists actually relocated wolves
back to
those regions, the wolves in the Upper Midwest returned on their own,
according to Timber Wolf Alliance.
The combined wolf population of Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan is about
3,000, the largest wolf population in the lower 48 states.
Using slides, props and displays, Warren will dispel wolf myths,
talk about
the Great Lakes wolves and share her personal experiences in her
quest to
learn more about this much-maligned mammal.
The program begins at 7 p.m. and is free of charge. The visitor
center is
located at the corner of U.S. 2 and U.S. 45 in Watersmeet.
All programs are sponsored by the Ottawa National Forest in
partnership with
the Ottawa Interpretive Association. For more information, call 358-
4724.