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My friend watched helplessly as a pack of wolves killed his lab and tore up another. If you live on the Northshore you will meet plenty of people who have lost pets to wolves.
I've found plenty of deer wolf kills too. Not a farmer and don't know any but I know the government traps a lot of wolves that kill livestock.
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I live right there, and frankly your statement is completely erroneous, could you cite some official documents? I get a notification automatically when any gray wolf depredation takes place in either Minnesota, Wisconsin, or the UP of Michigan. Most people living in the great lakes region have never even seen a gray wolf! I respond frequently to complaints from ranchers & farmers in northwestern Wisconsin, always they are looking to blame their losses on the back of these iconic animals, yet I routinely discover that they have great difficulty distinguishing the difference between gray wolves and their little cousin, the coyote! Frequently I have these ranchers lead me to coyote sign, which they have confused for wolf sign, or often they just are looking to collect on a dead, or lost animal, and the best way to do that is to cry wolf!
Allow me to put things in some perspective for you, Wisconsin has about 40,000 black bear, a conservatively estimated 60,000 coyotes, 5,000 or so Bobcats, millions of birds, fowl, foxes, raccoons, scunks, ect..and a white tail deer herd that runs steadily between 1-2,000,000 strong, the nations largest, as is our black bear population!
This winters wolf count, just released, lists a gray wolf population of just 783 animals, in some two hundred packs(two wolves comprise a pack)! The vast majority of these animals are in the northern third of the state. Yet they are blamed for every unfortunate thing that takes place. We have a barbaric bear hunting system in place, where "sport killers" are allowed to run the bear with radio collared hounds, they are free to "train" these hounds pretty much all summer long in preperation for the fall killing season!
Guess what, their maurauding hounds encounter gray wolves frequently, unfortunately for the "gps tracked hounds," the gray wolves are not impressed by them, and routinely kill them as they transgress on the wolves den, and rendevous sites. In NW Wisconsin(Indianhead country)its safe to say that these bear killers(its not hunting)are despised by virtually everyone! When I was a boy in Alaska, we shot such dogs, especially dogs that ran game. In Wisconsin, these "bear killers" get $5,000 per dog courtesy of the taxpayer, a black outrage!
The deer hunting lobby tries to piggyback upon this gray wolf hysteria, typically making ridiculously stupid, and completely unfounded complaints, decrying the gray wolfs decimation of the poor, defenseless deer herd. Consider, this years deer count was an estimated 1.400,000 animals, after humans culled 450,000 of them in the fall! A gray wolf consumes about 15-20 deer per year, which adds up to just under 16,000 deer killed by gray wolves annually! How many deer do you think are killed by automobiles each year in Wisconsin? Wisconsin deer hunters illegally shot seven gray wolves this past season! Ranchers & farmers routinely kill gray wolves illegally!
As a hunter & a trapper(40 + years)I am opposed to these upcoming wolf kills, did you know that Wisconsin intends to duplicate its bear hunting tactics by allowing the "sport killers" the use of up to six dogs armed with spiked, and shock emitting collars? Unlike the bear, the gray wolves will not be run, they will turn and attempt to defend their den sites, it will be savage, and it will be bloody. We sent Michael Vick to federal prison for something far more civilized, it would appear that the state only responded to him as it did, because they felt they were being cheated out of their cut of the spoils!
When you choose to live on the "northshore of Lake Superior, and Lake Superior national forest" you should understand that you are living in the last great wilderness area in the entire lower forty eight, far wilder then anything left out west, and that includes both Yellowstone & Glacier national parks. You should be expected to fully understand that when you wander out into these great wilderness areas, you and your animals are entering into the foodchain.
But as an outdoorsman of over seventy years, I sorta like the idea of having the big predators around--but not in my corral. 
