Final up-date on Isle Royale

Wolves at Isle Royale Click here to read the following article and answer the questions that follow. 1. What is the National Park's Service bold plan to help the wolves on Isle Royale? 2. How many wolves are now on the island? 2 8 15 30 3. When did the predator-prey island study start? 1945 1958 1960 1980 4. Besides the fact that ice bridges don't form as often, what do they think happened in 1980 to cause the wolf population to decline from 50 to just 14 wolves? 5. What three different groups of people did the National Park Service rely on before making their decision on how to handle the wolf decline on the island? 6. How long will it take for them to complete their plan of relocating 20-30 wolves to the island? 1-3 years 3-5 years 5-7 years 7. In 2018 what was the first part of the plan? How many and from where? 8. What happened in the winter of 2019? 9. Where did they get the wolves from that they took to the island in the fall of 2019? Ontario Michigan Minnesota 10. The new wolves that they captured in the wild were then carefully transported to the island and set free. Why do these wolves all have tracking collars? 11. At the time of this article (around 4 months ago), there are how many total wolves on the island? And how many are male female? 2 - 1 male 1 female 16 - 8 male 8 female 15 - 8 male 7 female 12. What 3 things will the Park Service continue to monitor look for evidence about the wolf population? 13. A study released in December of 2019 found several things - list 2 of them. 14. The wolves are only eating moose. True False 15. One of the original wolves has died due to wolf-on-wolf aggression. True False 16. The wolves on Isle Royale are feeding, traveling sleep close together, but what has to happen in order for them to be considered a "wolf pack"?