Thanks, I don't do allot of posting to forums, but I have a particular interest in wolves. There is quite a bit of incorrect information about wolves out there, and since I like sitting in the woods and listening to them howl,and wanting to see and hear them for years to come, I would do anything I could to help people understand them better, and for me to gain a better understanding of them. Not that your article was incorrect, but since I have a place in the arrowhead of Minnesota, I wanted to claim bragging rights on the wolf population question. Your article was accurate in every way, except for the exsitance of wolves in Minnesota.

I believe the Wolves were able to survive up here because the landscape is wet, very heavy vegetation, and in the arrowhead very rugged, and for those reasons, not only would it be difficult to hunt under those conditions, it is also difficult to farm, so I don’t think there was any reason to completely eliminate them from the area.

One last thing for Final shot, The deer population in northern Minnesota is excellent, and the Moose population is good in the arrowhead, therefore there is plenty of large prey for the packs to take, and as James wrote in his article, they also eat mice, rabbits, beaver, and other small animals they come across, since there are many lone wolves, and others traveling in pairs within the total population, this will be the only food they will have available to them other than carrion.