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The Searching Wolf leaves no stone unturned in its search for information.
Places to See Wolves
Captive Wolves
The International Wolf Center and Wolf Park are two of the best captive wolf facilities. The International Wolf Center is a beautiful facility near the town of Ely, MN. It is made up of a well-laid out building dedicated to education and a 1.3 acre enclosure for its ambassador wolves. The Center educates the public about wolves through its magazine, The International Wolf, courses, outdoor experiences, a huge museum display, videos, talks, invited international wolf biologists, and the ambassador wolves. The International Wolf Center is the place to go for the very best in factual wolf information.
Wolf Park is surrounded by farm land near Battle
Ground, Indiana. Included in the
Park are several small buildings (Visitor
Center, Education Center, and Observation Platform Building), a large
wolf enclosure of several acres, bleachers to view the wolves in their
enclosure, and acreage devoted to a small herd of bison. Wolf Park is noted
for its wolf courses which are taught under the guidance of the Park's founder
Dr. Erich Klinghammer, a Purdue University emeritus professor. The courses
include the Wolf Behavior Seminar, One Day Photography Seminar, Reproduction
Seminar, Wolf and Dog Seminar, Wolves for Teachers, Wolves for Artists
Workshop, and Wolf 101. All of the courses include close observations
of wolves and most of them allow hands-on experience with wolves.
A description of Wolf Park cannot be complete without mentioning Howl Nights and the Wolf-Bison Demonstration. On Howl Nights, the public is invited to come and sit in the bleachers and howl with the wolves. The Wolf-Bison Demonstration is also open to the public and illustrates how wolves and prey interact.
If you want to see a lot of wolves and perhaps even interact with them personally, Wolf Park is the place to go. It is dedicated to Wolf Education Plus.
Wild Wolves
Wild wolves are also frequently observed in northeastern Minnesota. That's because Minnesota, especially the northeastern portion, has a large wolf population (estimated at about 2600+ animals). We have seen wolves there walking along State Road 169 and U.S. 53. Our closest encounter with a wild wolf was near 6am one August morning after just getting out of our car near a marsh. The wolf was about 10 feet away. It looked at us, yawned and slowly walked away.
