The 1,000-Mile Great Lakes Adventures

Wednesday, August 26, 2020

Wolves & Moose of Isle Royale

Loreen Niewenhuis is an author, adventurer, and dynamic speaker. 

She has completed a trilogy of 1,000-mile journeys exploring the Great Lakes and has authored three books about these adventures. 


To learn more about her work, or to engage her as a speaker, go to 

http://www.laketrek.com/great-lakes-speaker/





My recent week hiking on Isle Royale was wonderful. While the famous wildlife study based there had been paused this year, the island opened to hikers arriving by float plane and private boaters in late June.


I joined some friends to hike the island and we saw several live moose, saw some moose bones, and came across many wolf tracks...including those of pups.





Wolf pup track (left) and adult (right)

[dollar for scale]





Female cow moose


Moose!

A grand bull moose in the woods:




And moose bones:





Zan and Julie discuss kill

April, casual in field of bones


This moose had two broken ribs that had healed in the past







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