Researchers with Minnesota’s Voyageurs Wolf Project capture and collar their first black wolf

It’s not every day you see a black wolf roaming the wilds of northern Minnesota in and around Voyageurs National Park near the Canadian border.
As wilderness happenings go, it’s a rare occurrence. That’s the word from the Voyageurs Wolf Project, which reported the black wolf Aug. 8 on its social media platforms after collaring the animal as part of its ongoing wolf research at the 218,000-acre Greater Voyageurs Ecosystem (which includes Voyageurs National Park).
“It was the first black wolf we’ve collared in our 11 years of research.”

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