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Grand Forks Sector’s Challenge Coin
02/14/2013
The Grand Forks Sector Challenge Coin was designed to capture some of the unique and distinguishing characteristics of the north. The design of the coin represents both North Dakota and Minnesota, and depicts the North Star (Polaris) and the Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis). The Gray Wolf also known as the Timber Wolf was once plentiful in most of North America, but today survives in only three percent of its original home range. By the time the Gray Wolf was protected by the Endangered Species Act of 1973, it had been exterminated from the lower 48 states, except for a few hundred that inhabited northeastern Minnesota. Today about 3,000 Gray Wolves live in the wild in Minnesota and with the population increase individual wolves are dispersing into neighboring states. Approximately 400 wolves live in northern Wisconsin and an occasional wolf is sighted in North Dakota.
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