Voyageurs Wolf Project
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The official Twitter account of the Voyageurs Wolf Project, which studies wolves in the Greater Voyageurs Ecosystem, MN.
Voyageurs Natl. Park, MN
Joined October 2020
2026 VWP calendars are for sale at our new online store!! Each month in the calendar has a super cool trail camera shot of a wolf or wolves in our area (see photos below for some examples!) All proceeds go to supporting our research so get a snazzy calendar and help the project
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Sources for those who want to read more: Barber-Meyer et al. 2021. The importance of wilderness to wolf survival and cause-specific mortality over 50 years. Biological Conservation. van den Bosch et al. 2024. Temporal dynamics in gray wolf space use suggest stabilizing range in
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How does the illegal killing of wolves impact wolf populations in the Greater Voyageurs Ecosystem and the Great Lakes states (Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan) overall? Illegal killing is one of, if not the largest single source of mortality in these areas. Last week, we
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Some beautiful footage from the dam of a remote beaver pond in early spring this year. You can hear the sounds of spring all around this pond, which we call “Capsaicin Pond” (story behind that below). But this is more than just pretty footage...the footage highlights an
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Check out the VWP online store here and get some cool merch and support the project:
voyageurswolfproject.itemorder.com
Online ordering for Voyageurs Wolf Project
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All proceeds from these items get donated to our project to support our work. So get cool stuff and support the project at the same time! Big thanks to 7 Corners Print and Promo out of the Twin Cities for helping set-up/run the online store and making/shipping apparel for us!
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AND, for the first time, we have 2026 VWP calendars for sale. Each month is a photo of a different wolf/pack with an interesting description about the wolf/wolves in that photo!
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VWP swag is FINALLY available at our new online store, which just went live yesterday! Get a sweatshirt, fleece, or something else with your favorite VWP design. And there is on new design that we have never released before too. Link to store below!
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Illegal killing of wolves is one of, if not the single most common cause of death for wolves in Minnesota and across much of the Northern Hemisphere. And one of the largest peaks of illegal killing in Minnesota and other Great Lakes States is during deer hunting season in
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Web designers like @reijowrites bring powerful interactions to the web with one platform: Framer
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This pair, Wolf B2L and the breeding female of Mithrandir, stuck together and produced a litter of 5 pups this spring. The pair remains together to this day and most of their pups were still alive as of early November. As you read this, these wolves, the Mithrandir Pack, are out
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In early January 2025, Wolf B2L, who had been the breeding male of the Vermilion River Pack for two years, left his territory and dispersed northward, likely because his mate had died in August 2024 due to starvation. He wandered north to the Mithrandir territory (about 15 miles
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We did not see the pup traveling with the female after mid-December…in fact, we never saw that pup again. Around that same time, the breeding female of Mithrandir started traveling around with a different male wolf, one we did not recognize. This new pair traveled together
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The breeding female of Mithrandir, Wolf V083, and the pup traveled together as a pack for about a month. Notably, V083 was an old wolf in 2024 (~8-9 years old) and was looking increasingly thin and tired. And then, he also simply disappeared in late early December (again, we
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The Nashata Pack, helmed by V083, produced pups in Spring 2024 but the mother of the pup’s disappeared in the Summer 2024 and has not been seen since (again, we think she likely died). However, V083 continued to care for the pups. By late Fall 2024, only one pup was alive…and
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Many pastors, churchmen, seminarians and their families look forward to this time of preaching, teaching, and fellowship each year. Join us for the 2026 Confessional Conference as we consider “The Church: The Bride of Christ.” Meals, a free book, merch, and all sessions included.
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These two wolves had split for some reason in Fall 2023 when Wolf V083 left the pack, shacked up with his former mate's mom, who was the breeding female of the Nashata Pack, and became the breeding male of the Nashata Pack (the Nashata and Mithrandir Pack territories overlapped
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For context, the Mithrandir Pack was just two wolves (a breeding pair) in Spring 2024. The pack had pups but they did not survive long. Sometimes by mid-to-late Summer 2024, the breeding male of the pack disappeared and we have not seen him since (we suspect he died but who
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As a result, it is not uncommon for wolves to have more than 1 mate in their lifetime. Sorry to burst some folk's bubble but the notion that wolves are 'monogamous for life' is nonsense. Anyhow…on to today’s case study: the breeding female of the Mithrandir Pack. From Summer
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And below is the story of one pack/wolf from this past winter that illustrates this well. But first, most studies on the topic have generally found breeding wolves only occupy the breeding position of a pack for ~2 years on average. Breeding pairs often dissolve because one wolf
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Often, wolf packs are thought of as stable social groups where the same two wolves, the breeding pair, lead the pack for many years until old age claims them. And while this does happen, the reality is that pack dynamics are far more, well, dynamic than most might realize or
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