HOUGHTON, Mich. — It takes a certain kind of person to hike off trail through dense boreal wilderness on a remote Lake Superior island in search of dead moose, then haul the bones out in a backpack.

In 2018, the wolf population in Michigan’s Isle Royale National Park hit a record low while the moose population hit a record high. Seven years later, the two resident populations of the Lake Superior ...

Isle Royale's wolf population was higher this winter than it has been in almost 50 years, researchers found in their annual count of wolves on the remote Lake Superior island, while moose numbers have ...

The wolf population on Isle Royale has grown to its largest level since the 1970s while the moose population has plummeted nearly 75% in less than a decade, according to a long running survey from ...

Near-record highs for the number of wolves and near-record lows for the number of moose characterized the 2026 Isle Royale Winter Study, a population survey led by Michigan Tech researchers on Isle ...