Actually I intended to follow up last week’s post on dogs’n’bears (plus a raccoon catching snowflakes) with a general video on caniforms, before going back to canids (the dog family).
None of the ones online appealed to me, but this video on a canid caught my eye because of its oddly specific title: “The State of Wolves in Minnesota.”
It’s from a local PBS station and is, indeed, about wolves in Minnesota. And along the way I learned that Minnesota is the only US state that has always had a viable gray wolf population. (Source)
Three cheers for Minnesota!
From that source, though, it sounds as though Minnesota wolves are once again numerous enough to raise the age-old concern about human-carnivore conflict.
So yes, let’s check out the state of wolves in Minnesota today. It’s important to every stakeholder, including those of us who simply want this beautiful animal to stay free and healthy — and not a threat to anyone.
Is that an impossible dream?
Featured image: A Minnesota wolf in 2008, by dalliedee, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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