Gray wolves are gone from Indiana today. NatureServe lists the species SX, presumed extirpated, in the state, and unregulated hunting and land clearing eliminated wolves from the region well before most of the Midwest’s other large predators disappeared. The 69 records mapped here, all from GBIF with no iNaturalist photographs, almost certainly represent historical specimens rather than a living population.
Those records cluster oddly in August, more than the rest of the year combined, a pattern that likely reflects when a particular batch of museum or survey specimens was cataloged rather than any true seasonal signal from an animal no longer present. Coyotes have since filled much of the ecological role wolves once played in Indiana, and the state has no active reintroduction effort underway.
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