Emigration and First-year Movements of Initial Wolf Translocations to Isle Royale

Elizabeth K. Orning^1,*, Mark C. Romanski², Seth Moore³, Yvette Chenaux-Ibrahim³, John Hart⁴, and Jerrold L. Belant¹

¹SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Global Wildlife Conservation Center, 1 Forestry Drive, Syracuse, NY 13210. ²National Park Service, 800 E Lakeshore Drive, Isle Royale National Park, Houghton, MI 49931. ³Department of Psychology, Animal Behavior Program, University of New England, 11 Hills Beach Road, Biddeford, ME 04005. ⁴US Department of Agriculture-Animal Plant Health Inspection Service-Wildlife Services, 34912 US Hwy 2, Grand Rapids, MN 55744. *Corresponding author.

Northeastern Naturalist, Volume 27, Issue 4 (2020): 701–708

Abstract
Canis lupis (Gray Wolf or Wolf) can move great distances with important consequences to the persistence of isolated populations. We used global position system (GPS) tracking technology to summarize the movements of 4 Wolves translocated to Isle Royale National Park, MI, in 2018–2019. We quantified aspects of movement behavior of individual Wolves following translocation to, and an emigration event from the Isle Royale ecosystem.

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