Feb 17, 2008
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The candlelight ski wasn’t the only excitement this week. We have a timber wolf pack roaming the area and this week they were hunting around the visitor center and campground. An alert park visitor took a photo of a wolf right outside the window of the visitor center. Another visitor saw three wolves by the park entrance and one of the Gooseberry staff was lucky enough to see the whole pack.Wolf Killed Deer 001
The pack currently has five members. This week we have found remains of four deer that the wolves have taken down. The one that caused the most excitement was a doe caught along the shore of Lake Superior. I came up on the wolves and scared them off before they finished their meal so several park visitors were able to see not only the tracks but the remains of the deer.
If anyone is interested in reading more about wolves, there is a winter study currently taking place on Isle Royale, go to http://isleroyalewolf.org/wsjournal/wtrstdy/index/index.html to read the daily diary entries.