do wolves live in ga?

Answer 1

the only wolves i have ever seen is the ones that knock on your door looking for money or to repo your car.

Answer 2

No, these people definitely did not do their research. Wolf populations are very restricted across the lower 48 states. Why? because the white man slaughtered them. Why? because wolf ate his livestock....but why did wolf eat livestock? because white man cut down all the forests and killed off all its prey.

I know there are red wolves in North Carolina's Alligator national park. Yellowstone and Minnesota have a couple thousand gray wolves(much bigger). Georgia exclusively has coyotes right now. Although, you can bet that Georgia had thousands of red wolves hundreds of years ago running around. Georgia has NEVER had Gray Wolves(check my second source. It shows the distribution of Gray wolves in the U.S., then and now.

These coyotes filled the niche of the wolf after the wolf was exterminated. It migrated across the country to the east from the southwest only about 100 years ago or less, while the wolf was being exterminated. It is quite a remarkable story. The white man also tryed to exterminate the coyote. It didn't work because the coyote is a very intelligent and adaptable animal(its population actually increased when white man was trying to exterminate it). The coyotes began having more pups, they started to feed only at night. These adaptations allowed them to survive man. Also, coyotes are more adapted to open fields, the suburbs etc. than the wolf. The wolf needed primarily a forest to live. By cutting down the forests, man has increased the population of deer and coyote.

*(Check my first source). Red Wolves DO NOT inhabit Georgia anymore. Read about where they were re-introduced with limited or no success. Note "In 1991 two pairs were reintroduced into the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, where the last known wolf was killed in 1905. Despite some early success, the wolves were relocated to North Carolina(Alligator national park) in 1998, ending the effort to reintroduce the species to the Park.

*This may be why people are saying wolves are in NW Georgia...but as this source states, that re-introduction effort failed and the wolves removed

*The person's answer below mine claims to know a guy who released gray wolves into the blue ridge mountains. This would of been extremely illegal. Gray wolves did not inhabit much of the southeast(check second source).....and if people are releasing them, shame on them for the animals will lack the instincts(unless learned when a pup) to live in the wild.

*my third source will show you that the red wolf and gray wolf are recognized by the university of Georgia to not inhabit Georgia anymore.

Answer 3

In North Georiga.

Answer 4

Yes. I knew a guy who did release work into the local population in the Blue ridge area for awhile.

And this would be of the Grey wolf variety

Answer 5

yes but only in North Ga

Answer 6

yes, I live in north ga and I see them all the time

Answer 7

yes they are hard to find but they are here im in nw ga

Answer 8

very very small number of red wolfs are seen in the state your chance of seeing one is pretty much zero

Answer 9

there are a few but a TON of coyotes.