Registration for the 2024 Great Lakes Wolf Symposium closed after September 30, 2024. If you would like to inquire about registration, please contact Timber Wolf Alliance Coordinator Melanie Michaels at mmichaels@northland.edu.

All presentations will take place in the Alvord Theatre, which is located in the Ponzio Campus Center at Northland College. Meals will be located in Baldwin Commons, which is also in the Ponzio Campus Center.

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Parking Information

There is no permit required to park during the day. Overnight parking is not allowed without a parking permit.

The closest parking lot to the symposium is Parking Lot 1; however, no lots are further than a 5–10 minute walk to the Ponzio Campus Center.

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Movement ecology of gray wolves in the western Great Lakes region
Alejandra Zubiria Perez, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University

Born to Die: Pack and Population Level Estimates of Wolf Pup Survival and Recruitment in the Greater Voyageurs Ecosystem
Andrea Hynes, Northern Michigan University

Gray Wolf Tolerance of Human and Road Densities on and around the Fond du Lac Reservation
Grace Lavan, Fond du Lac Resource Management Division.

Differential provisioning roles, prey size, and prey abundance shape the dynamic feeding behavior of a social carnivore
Dr. Thomas Gable, University of Minnesota/Voyageurs Wolf Project

How can changes in the genetic health of wolf populations cascade to influence boreal forests?
Sarah Hoy, Michigan Technological University

An Update on the Wolves of Minnesota
Dan Stark, MN Department of Natural Resources

An Update on Wolf Management in Wisconsin
Randy Johnson, WI Department of Natural Resources

An Update on the Wolves of Michigan
Brian Roell, MI Department of Natural Resources

An Update on the Wolves of Ontario
Brent Paterson, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry

1854 Treaty Authority Wolf Update
Morgan Swingen, 1854 Treaty Authority

Great Lakes Indian Fish & Wildlife Commission
Allison Carl, Great Lakes Fish & Wildlife Commission

Wolf Recovery in the Northeast
John Glowa, Maine Wolf Coalition

An Update on Wolf-human Conflict in Minnesota
Duane (Pete) Sahr, USDA/APHIS/Wildlife Services

An Update on Wolf-human Conflict in Wisconsin
Dave Ruid, USDA-Wildlife Services

An Update on Wolf-human Conflict in Michigan
Brian Roell, MI Department of Natural Resources

Wolf-proof Fences for Dummies
Austin Homkes Voyageurs Wolf Project, University of Minnesota

Citizen-Science Study of Polar-bear Hunting Wolves
Jad Davenport, National Geographic/Churchill Wild

Do wolves adjust their predation behavior when hunting deer fawns near human infrastructure?
Sean Johnson-Bice, University of Manitoba

Wolves in the highly populated Netherlands – what could possibly go wrong?
Glenn Lelieveld, Averti Ecologie BV

Changing the Tolerance of the Intolerant: Does Large Carnivore Policy Matter?
Erik Olson – Department of Natural Resources, Northland College

Back to the Future: Achieving Wolf Co-existence in the Western Great Lakes Region
Peter David, Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Services, Retired

Ma’iingan (Canis lupus) Conservation and the Remarkable Legacy of W813: A Multidisciplinary Approach from the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa
Genevieve Adamski, Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Treaty Natural Resources Dept.
Ron Nordin Jr., Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Treaty Natural Resources Dept.

Video of wolf predation on a foraging beaver: insight into how wolves influence beaver foraging?
Dani Freund, Trent University

Human-caused wolf mortality persists for years after discontinuation of hunting
Roman Oliynyk, Harvard University

Gray wolf survival in the Great Lakes region increases with residency, not federal protection
Alejandra Zubiria Perez, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University

How the temporal dynamics of wolf predation during summer are shaped by resource pulses, prey availability, and pup-rearing demands
Thomas Gable, University of Minnesota/Voyageurs Wolf Project

Wolf search efficiency in northern Ontario: a time to event modelling approach
Brent Paterson, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry

Genetic-morphologic investigation of Minnesota wolves: assessing the presence of distinct wolf types
Tyler Wheeldon, Trent University

Wolves foraging on berries is likely a widespread behavior in southern boreal ecosystems
Isabella Evavold, Northern Michigan University

A case study on seasonal and population density effects on an intraspecific aggressive event in Gray Wolves in the central forest of Wisconsin
Danielle Deming, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources

Summer diets of Gray Wolf packs across several years in the Greater Voyageurs Ecosystem
Magdaline Baham, University of Minnesota/Voyageurs Wolf Project

How black bear hunting influences the time budgets and foraging behavior of gray wolves
Ian Smith, Voyageurs Wolf Project, University of Minnesota

Insights from a Collared Wolf
Annie McDonnell, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources

Wolves on the Landscape. Investigating the Effects of Selective Predation on the Spread of CWD in Wisconsin
Michael Menon, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies CALS, Department of Forest & Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison

How wolves alter forests by killing beavers
Thomas Gable, University of Minnesota/Voyageurs Wolf Project

Germination rates of blueberries eaten by wolves in northern Minnesota, USA
Alex Gross, University of Minnesota/Voyageurs Wolf Project

Characteristics of gray wolf (Canis lupus) dispersal in northern Minnesota
Livia Coletta, Northern Michigan University

One man’s trash: impacts of anthropogenic food subsidies on foraging behavior of gray wolves
Sophie Heny, University of Minnesota/Voyageurs Wolf Project

Wolf Pup Survival in Northeastern Minnesota
Sammi Shimota, 1854 Treaty Authority

WI DNR Winter Carnivore Tracking Program
Annie McDonnell, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources

Wildlife Science Center Internship
Andrew Linder, Wildlife Science Center
Jayden Janusiak, Wildlife Science Center

Wolves: Wisconsin Rural Perspective
Laurie Groskopf

View the Great Lakes Wolf Symposium abstracts PDF here.