<P> Canada has over 60,000 wolves, which are legally considered a big game species, though they are afforded protection in 3% of Canada's territory . The Northwest Territories, Nunavut and Yukon have 5,000 wolves each, British Columbia has 8,500 wolves, Alberta 4,200, Saskatchewan 4,300, Manitoba 4,000 - 6,000, Ontario 9,000, Quebec 5,000 and Labrador 2,000 . Canada currently has no livestock damage compensation programmes . In the fall of 2012, the government of British Columbia was considering a cull of the wolf population in some areas . In the winter of 2015 the government of British Columbia began undertaking a cull of up to 184 wolves in an effort to combat dwindling caribou populations in the South Selkirk Mountains and the South Peace region . The cull, like ones before it, is opposed by some environmental groups . </P> <P> On 12 March 2012, a grey wolf, mistakenly thought to be a coyote, was shot on Newfoundland . It was the first confirmed grey wolf on Newfoundland since ca . 1930 . </P> <P> The United States as a whole has up to 18,000 wolves, about two thirds of which are in Alaska . They are increasing in number in all their ranges . Usually however, wolves in the United States are mostly seen during the winter months in northern Minnesota, northern Wisconsin Michigan's Upper Peninsula, and portions of Washington, Idaho, northern Oregon, and Montana, as the majority of wolf populations migrate from the Canada areas to the Northwestern states & some of the Midwestern and Great Lakes States during the winter months for the competition over eating Bison, Elk, White Tailed Deer and other large ungulates, disputed between other carnivores such as Grizzly Bears, Cougars, and Coyotes . Wolf recovery has been so successful that the United States Fish & Wildlife Service removed the western gray wolf from the federal endangered species list on March 28, 2008 . Due to the controversy over wolf shootings, a coalition of environmental groups sued the federal government to put the gray wolf back on the Endangered Species list . On July 18, 2008, a federal judge ruled in favor of renewed endangered species protection . Alaska has a stable population of 10,500 - 12,000 wolves, which are legally hunted from August to April (in deer - rich areas) as a big game species . </P> <P> Minnesota has a population of 4,100 wolves, which are legally protected, though they are occasionally culled for depredation control . Minnesota used to have control over its wolf population, but this was revoked by a federal appellate court on August 1, 2017, making wolf management the charge of the federal government . The court decided to retain the state's minimum population of 1,600 animals . It has been argued by state officials that management should remain in the hands of the state, allowing for the wolf to be removed from protected status, since the population has exceeded recovery goals for more than 25 years . </P>

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