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Advocacy group highlights increasing wolf population in MN and calls for management strategies amidst urban sightings.

The USDA and DNR have had to trap eight wolves in Northern Minnesota recently because of pets being taken. Pet owners should be on alert and keep their pets close for the time being.

A well-fed bear caught on trail cam is earning all the praise (and a few jokes) online.

A Minnesota-based organization designed to protect gray wolves in the upper midwest is holding a meeting in St. Cloud Saturday to recruit supporters.

A Minnesota congressman says a push is underway to include language in a catchall spending bill to return responsibility for managing wolf populations in the western Great Lakes region to Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan.

Minnesota will issue 500 more wolf licenses this year and allow hunters and trappers to kill 30 more wolves than last year.

DNA tests confirm a wolf trapped and killed at a northern Minnesota campground is the same wolf that attacked a 16-year-old there.

A Mexican wolf has been shot and killed after it escaped from its enclosure at the Minnesota Zoo. Zoo spokeswoman Kelly Lessard says the wolf got out of the Northern Trail exhibit and into a bison area at the zoo located in the Minneapolis suburb of Apple Valley.

The federal program that controls wolves that attack or threaten farm animals or pets in Minnesota is in peril because of budget cuts by Congress. Friday's budget agreement in the U.S. Congress effectively eliminates money for the USDA's Wildlife Services program.