Gray Wolf (Canis lupus)

Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan Wolf Management Plans

Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan support healthy wolf populations. In preparation for the time when Endangered Species Act protection would be removed for those wolves, the states developed wolf management plans. Now that the Gray Wolf Western Great Lakes Distinct Population Segment has been delisted these plans will dictate wolf management in those states. Below are links to those plans and summaries of the plans that were prepared by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Minnesota State Plan: 2001 (PDF)
Summary of the Minnesota State Plan
Summary of the Minnesota Law that revised the Minnesota Wolf Management Regulations

Michigan Wolf Management Plan: July 10, 2008 (PDF)
Michigan State Plan: 1997 (PDF)
Summary of the Michigan State Plan
Wolf Management Roundtable - Includes Recommended Guiding Principles for Wolf Management in Michigan (Nov. 2006)

Wisconsin State Plan; 1999 (PDF)
Summary of the Wisconsin State Plan
Addendum to the Wisconsin State Plan; 2006

Revised January 29, 2007

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