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Gray Wolf (Canis lupus) Occurrences in the Dakotas

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Table 1. Characteristics of the 10 gray wolves shot in the Dakotas since 1981: MAN = Manitoba; MN = Minnesota; ND = North Dakota; SD = South Dakota; Unk = unknown.

	Date of mortality	State	County	Est age	Sex	Distance to nearest wolf range km	Likely region of origin	Percent crop- land¹	Percent pasture¹	Percent wood- land	Km of road per km²	Human density per km²
1	3/15/81	SD	Brown	2	F	223	MN	72.1	22.9	0.6	1.03	8.22
2	10/13/85	ND	Dickey	1.5	F	248	MN	66.1	18.4	0.3	0.93	2.4
3	6/4/86	SD	Harding	2	F	561	Unk	12.3	80.2	0.3	0.18	0.3
4	11/10/89	SD	Brown	1.5	M	254	MN	72.1	22.9	0.6	1.03	8.22
5	2/27/90	ND	McIntosh	2	M	298	MN	64.7	25.4	0.2	0.84	1.8
6	2/2/91	ND	Walsh	2	M	46	MN	82.4	10.4	2.4	1.13	4.6
7	2/27/91	ND	Mountrail	2	F	268	MAN	58.9	38.6	0.2	0.66	1.7
8	12/1/91	SD	Grant	2	M	203	MN	64.2	21.1	1.8	0.84	5.0
9	12/22/91	SD	Tripp	4	M	530	MN	43.4	47.2	0.8	0.24	1.7
10	1/6/92	ND	Dunn	3.5	M	343	Unk	35.2	74.3	2.4	0.23	0.9

	Mean					297		57.1	36.1	0.93	0.713	3.53

Notes: 1 = percentages may exceed 100% due to sampling methods (U.S. Bureau of Census, 1989); 2 = mean human density is 2.4 per km² when Aberdeen (Brown Co.) is excluded; 3 = mean values calculated from sum of county values.

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