Gray Wolf (Canis lupus)
Range in the Conterminous United States
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Gray
wolves once lived in much of the contiguous United States. They were only
absent from a portion of California,the southwest corner of Arizona and
from the red wolf range in the southeastern United States. By 1974, when
gray wolves were listed as an endangered species, their breeding range
had been reduced to a small corner of northeastern Minnesota and Isle
Royale, Michigan. Individual wolves were periodically observed in the
West, but there were no breeding packs. Recovery efforts have since restored
the wolf to many areas of its historic range, including portions of the
Southwest, the Rocky Mountains, and the western Great Lakes Region.
![map of current range](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20081105114754im_/http://www.fws.gov/midwest/wolf/images/range_05.jpg)
![map of the 1974 range of the gray wolf in the lower 48 states](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20081105114754im_/http://www.fws.gov/midwest/wolf/images/listing-r.jpg)
![map of historical gray wolf range in lower 48 states](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20081105114754im_/http://www.fws.gov/midwest/wolf/images/histrangeHall81.jpg)
Revised January 29, 2007
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