Streams of Thought: A level-headed discussion about wolves

It was likely in 1999 that I first wrote about gray wolves in Minnesota. Numerical goals regarding wolf populations in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan had been reached, and talk was of removing wolves from the federal endangered species list. They were, most wildlife officials proclaimed, “recovered” where they roamed.
It was from my entry into the long-running wolf saga some two and a half decades ago that I became all too familiar with terms such as “distinct population segment” and “delisting,” and became intimately aware of documents such as state management and wolf-recovery plans.

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