"Rare Gray Wolf Harvested by Hunter in Southern Michigan, DNR Confirms"

A gray wolf was found and killed in Michigan's southern Lower Peninsula during a January coyote hunt, prompting an investigation by the state Department of Natural Resources (DNR) as the known wolf population is located in the Upper Peninsula. Gray wolves are federally endangered in Michigan and can only be killed if posing a direct threat to human life. The DNR does not believe the wolf was part of an established population in the southern Lower Peninsula and is conducting genetic testing to learn more about its origin. Despite occasional signs of wolves in the Lower Peninsula, the DNR has found only a few since the wolf population was re-established in the 1980s.