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Modeling emigration of wolves from a wilderness area into adjacent agricultural regions We developed and applied a simple population model to examine the relation between abundance of wolves in a wilderness area and the numbers that emigrate into adjacent agricultural areas and that may need to be removed on an annual basis. The model was applied using Minnesota wolf (Canis lupus) data. The gray wolf is emigrating from northern wilderness areas in the State of Minnesota (USA) into adjacent agricultural and urban areas to the south, and the costs of both wolf control and compensation to farmers for lost livestock is increasing as the number of wolves increases. Emigration reduces the number of wolves on a refuge to about 85% of the carrying capacity, and the number of wolves that emigrate into the agricultural... Categories: Publication; Types: Citation, Journal Citation; Tags: Ecological Modelling, control, gray wolf, livestock depredation, logistic, All tags... predator dispersal, Fewer tags