The "creel" study at Isle Royale will ask anglers to report on their catch rates, species, and fishing methods. This survey method is named after a “creel,” which is a basket historically used ...

A last-minute medical issue grounded researchers' annual wolf-moose survey on Isle Royale this past winter, marking yet another year that scientists have run into problems trying to count the ...

ISLE ROYALE, Mich. (WJMN) — The 2024 census of moose on Isle Royale was completed this past weekend, according to the Isle Royale Wolf-Moose Project. While the full study hasn’t been released ...

News No new Isle Royale wolf, moose estimates will be released this year after survey plane issue Published: Jul. 14, 2025, 2:06 p.m.

Nation World Isle Royale wolf-moose survey grounded after unexpected medical issue The survey has been conducted since 1958 and tracks wolf and moose populations on the remote island in Lake Superior.

An Isle Royale moose in January. Researchers conducting the annual survey of moose and wolves have been pulled off the island due to unsafe ice conditions for their survey plane.

Isle Royale is a 134,000-acre (54,200-hectare) island in far western Lake Superior between Grand Marais, Minnesota, and Thunder Bay, Canada.

A last-minute medical issue grounded researchers' annual wolf-moose survey on Isle Royale this past winter, marking yet another year that scientists have run into problems trying to count the ...