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NEWS:
Tracks of 2 Wolves Confirmed in Cheboygan County
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) Wildlife officials say they've confirmed the presence of two gray wolves in Michigan's Lower Peninsula.
Biologists said Tuesday they verified tracks of two wolves that were discovered by a landowner in Cheboygan County.
The landowner actually reported three sets of tracks. Scientists with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources and Environment and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Wildlife Services Division investigated but couldn't find the third.
But they say this is the strongest evidence yet that a wolf pack may be roaming the northern Lower Peninsula.
Wolves were driven to near extinction in Michigan during the last century but began returning to the Upper Peninsula in the late 1980s. A census last year turned up 577 wolves in the U.P.
Tracks of 2 Wolves Confirmed in Cheboygan County
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) Wildlife officials say they've confirmed the presence of two gray wolves in Michigan's Lower Peninsula.
Biologists said Tuesday they verified tracks of two wolves that were discovered by a landowner in Cheboygan County.
The landowner actually reported three sets of tracks. Scientists with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources and Environment and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Wildlife Services Division investigated but couldn't find the third.
But they say this is the strongest evidence yet that a wolf pack may be roaming the northern Lower Peninsula.
Wolves were driven to near extinction in Michigan during the last century but began returning to the Upper Peninsula in the late 1980s. A census last year turned up 577 wolves in the U.P.
