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Timber wolves have made a tremendous recovery in the states of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan. Wolves in Wisconsin has gone from a population of 25 wolves in 1980 to over 500 today. Wolves in Michigan and Minnesota have been equally successful with Minnesota now having nearly 3,000 wolves. [FWS] But what many deer hunters want to know today is how many deer are being killed by wolves.

The data on the subject might be a bit disappointing to whitetail hunters looking to blame low deer population numbers on wolves.

A few hunters continue to kill wolves, believing that such actions will help the deer herd. It is important to place in perspective the impact of wolves feeding on deer. Each wolf kills about 18 deer per year. Multiply this by the number of wolves found in Wisconsin in recent years (330), and approximately 5940 deer may be consumed by wolves annually. This appears as a fairly low when compared to over 40,000 deer hit by cars each year, and about 450,000 deer shot annually by hunters. [WI DNR]

So next time you are in your stand and see a wolf, try to enjoy the view and watch a predator at work.

If you wish to discuss wolf depredations on dogs or livestock, please do so here.

deerslayer - Wolves are killing far more deer than that each year.
September 29, 2009
watev - these things are killing way more than that & those are just estmates not the real fact!
April 27, 2010
Sean - I think they are the real facts as I read another article on another website that also stated that wolves kill about 18 deer per year. Because if you think about it wolves hunt in packs and most wolves go roughly 1 week between deer hunts as they could hunt other prey too, so as the meat from one deer should be enough to fill a pack of around 8 wolves for a week. So one pack would probably kill about 50 deer a year as they wouldn't only kill one deer a week. This divided by the average number of wolves in a wolf pack probably would average about that.
January 06, 2012
fasdfsd - Alright, first off, those 40,000 hit by cars and 450,000 by hunters are most likely national. I would like to know. And, 6,000 deer killed by wolves in one state is a lot.
January 08, 2012
Basketballstatsguy - That a wolf eats 18 deer a year does not take into face that most of their kills are fawns, which means what, 54+?
January 09, 2012
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