Gray wolves are gone from Massachusetts today. NatureServe lists the species SX, presumed extirpated, in the state, and unregulated hunting and land clearing eliminated wolves from southern New England well before most of the region’s other large predators disappeared. The 46 records mapped here almost certainly represent historical specimens rather than a living population.
Those records cluster loosely in February and again across October and November, too old and too scattered to describe any real seasonal pattern. Coyotes have since filled much of the ecological role wolves once played in Massachusetts, and the state has no active reintroduction effort underway.
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