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Isle Royale

National Park

Michigan

Established: April 3, 1940

571,790 acres

Annual Visitors: 24,966 (2016)

Official Site: https://www.nps.gov/isro/index.htm

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle_Royale_National_Park

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Isle-Royale-National-Park-127161610664143

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/isleroyalenps

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Starving wolves successfully relocated to Isle Royale National ParkA U.S.-Canadian team has successfully relocated about half a dozen gray wolves to Isle Royale National Park in Michigan

Isle Royale’s new black wolf moves away from others, GPS tracker shows whyThe black wolf was picked up from the Ontario, Canada mainland last weekend and is in better physical shape that some of the recent arrivals.

National Parks Traveler:

2018 Year In Review: A Look Back At The Top Stories Involving National Parks

Contains links to their coverage of the wolf repatriation throughout the year...

https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2018/12/2018-year-review-look-back-top-stories-involving-national-parks

Only 1 wolf now seen on Michigan's Isle RoyaleA pair of wolves was last seen in January as the National Park Service decides whether to replenish the pack on the island in Lake Superior.

Wolves and Moose of Isle Royale

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Study: Isle Royale moose getting smallerAs the last wolves die off on Isle Royale and the Lake Superior island's moose herd continues to grow rapidly, another odd phenomena is occuring.Isle Royale moose are getting smaller.Research to be published in an upcoming edition of the journal Global Change Biology shows that the size of moose skulls...

Lake Superior's last caribou nearly gone; Ontario rushes to move...The last few Lake Superior woodland caribou may be on the brink of extirpation thanks to the freakishly cold winter of 2014 and hungry wolves decimating caribou herds in their last two holdouts.While wildlife enthusiasts mourn the loss of the last remaining wolves on Isle Royale, the opposite problem...

Isle Royale National Park has it all for a backpacking alternativeMaybe it's time for something different than, say, the Superior Hiking Trail. Isle Royale is accessible — and remote.

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