In an article in the Duluth News Tribune (Cook 4/15/18) a De…

In an article in the Duluth News Tribune (Cook 4/15/18) a Department of Natural Resources (DNR) official is quoted as saying, “But as far as impacting the deer population, wolves are not the driving factor in the number of deer we have on the landscape. The two primary impacts are hunter harvest and winter severity. We’ve had some of the highest harvests of deer on record while at the same time having the highest estimates of our wolf population.” “It’s pretty clear that wolf numbers aren’t driving deer numbers, but wolf numbers are a result of deer numbers,” he said. “When we have more deer, we have more wolves…” According to this quotation, if you don’t consider the human hunting influence, the wolf population is most likely regulated in a