Southeast Alaska’s wolves tend to favor deer and moose at mealtime, but in a pinch they won’t say no to black bear – or even sea otter.

Two Alexander Archipelago wolves are seen March 21, 2020, in a trail camera image provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service photo) The U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...

Wolves are the largest members of the canid family, and these 10 species are the largest wolves on Earth today.

While the wolf's range includes parts of southeast Alaska and coastal British Columbia, the groups say the wolves in Alaska, and particularly on Prince of Wales Island, are at notable risk.

Legal trapping recently killed more than half the wolves in one key population on Prince of Wales Island in Southeast Alaska. The Trump administration opened hundreds of thousands of acres of the wolf ...

Wolves on an Alaskan island caused a deer population to plummet and switched to primarily eating sea otters in just a few years, a finding scientists at Oregon State University and the Alaska ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Sept 8 (Reuters) - Environmentalists said on Wednesday they plan to sue the Biden administration to hasten federal protections for a small and isolated population of wolves ...

More information: Gretchen H. Roffler et al, Switching to marine prey leads to unprecedented mercury concentrations in a population of coastal Alaska wolves, Science of The Total Environment (2025).

In early March, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) announced that trappers had killed 165 Alexander Archipelago wolves—which some consider to be a subspecies of the northwestern wolf ...

Gray wolves turn to new food source after killing off deer in Pleasant Island, Alaska Sea otter populations are healthy in Alaska, even with wolves licking their chops.

Wolves on an Alaskan island caused a deer population to plumet and switched to primarily eating sea otters in just a few years, a finding scientists at Oregon State University and the Alaska ...

Southeast Alaska wolves are not threatened or endangered, federal agency concludes U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service again rejects request to put them on Endangered Species List. By James Brooks ...