There are only about 500 eastern wolves(red wolves) in all of North America and most -- about 300 -- are in Ontario(50 in North Carolina)..........."The animal's status was recently upgraded federally to threatened, a notch below endangered"................. "Ontario currently classifies the eastern wolf as a species of special concern".............(Nonetheless), Ontarians are allowed to hunt wolves, but must purchase a seal (which costs about $11) and can only harvest two per year, whether they are grey wolves or coyotes".............. "But a legislative change has been proposed that would remove the requirement to purchase a seal, as well as "open the bag limit for coyotes in Northern Ontario"............................"The rationale of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry for the move is to protect declining moose populations in the North, but it's a misguided strategy that contradicts the ministry's own science"................. "The ministry points out in their own Moose Project that loosening hunting restrictions for wolves will actually not benefit the moose, because it tends to be that when you splinter a wolf pack, they just end up having more wolves later"................ "They have compensatory behaviour, essentially".............. "The pack splinters and there are more breeding pairs and more wolves the following year"

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Sudbury 

group:

 Wolves the 

necessary

 predator

By Jim Moodie, The Sudbury Star

Friday, March 4, 2016 12:40:43 EST AM

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