If you’re planning a trip to Isle Royale National Park this summer, you can expect to feast your eyes on miles of pristine shoreline, explore secluded caves, wander the boardwalk through the swamp forests and stroll in the shade from the canopy of the boreal forests. You’ll likely see wildlife like moose and beavers and if you’re really lucky, you might glimpse a gray wolf just before it disappears into the trees.
A small island in vast Lake Superior positioned 15 miles from the mainland, might seem an unlikely place to encounter such an animal, but wolves have existed on Isle Royale since the 1950s. Sarah Hoy, a researcher at Michigan Tech University, explains that wolves first arrived here thanks to the frigid winter conditions you’d expect from an area that’s closer to Ontario than it is Michigan.
