Wolves Affecting Deer Populations

How Wolves are affecting the Deer Population In The Upper Peninsula? I Believe that the deer population is being affected drastically and I think that there should be a wolf hunt to thin down the wolf population. The wolf hunt would help the deer population because there would be less wolves to eat the deer and the deer population would increase.
The wolves are one of the biggest decrease in deer population because in our harsh and extremely long winters the deer cannot find as much food as they do in the summer and fall months, the wolves take advantage of the deer that are weaker and cannot find as much food by chasing them down and killing them. The deer population is affected by wolves more because there is not a whole lot of bigger food sources for the wolves to eat so they pretty much stick with they're instincts and kill the deer to survive, the whitetail deer makes up over 50% of the wolves diet. Wolves are actually on the endangered list as of December 9th 2014 but their are close to 750 wolves that they actually got …show more content…
Wolves travel in packs of 10-30 and have two leaders and they are called the alpha male and alpha female and they are in charge of the pack. Wolves are a really good predator to be on Isle Royale because they really help manage the predator to prey ratio but they are not quite as useful in the Upper Peninsula because they are getting a little to friendly with coming in to small towns and a few years ago they were found right in the middle of Crystal Falls MI in someone's backyard at a standoff with the homeowners dogs, the homeowner called the Michigan Department Of Natural Resources and they gave them permission to shoot and kill the 2 wolves that were endangering them and their