News No new Isle Royale wolf, moose estimates will be released this year after survey plane issue Published: Jul. 14, 2025, 2:06 p.m.

Researchers from Michigan Tech University were unable to conduct their annual wolf-moose survey on Isle Royale this past winter. A last-minute medical issue grounded their ski-plane pilot, and no ...

The COVID-19 pandemic forced them to cancel the survey in 2021, marking the first time since 1958 that population counts weren't conducted. View from Isle Royale National Park's Mount Ojibway ...

The "creel" study at Isle Royale will ask anglers to report on their catch rates, species, and fishing methods. This survey method is named after a “creel,” which is a basket historically used ...

Researchers from Michigan Tech University were unable to conduct their annual wolf-moose survey on Isle Royale this past winter. A last-minute medical issue grounded their ski-plane pilot, and no ...

Isle Royale is a 134,000-acre (54,200-hectare) island in far western Lake Superior between Grand Marais, Minnesota, and Thunder Bay, Canada. The island, which doubles as a national park, offers ...

FILE - This Sept. 26, 2018 file photo provided by the National Park Service shows NPS staff unloading a crated gray wolf from a United States Fish & Wildlife Service aircraft at Isle Royale ...