The Leech Lake Band is located west of Lake Superior in northern Minnesota. Leech Lake educates about Ma’iingan on it’s website and participates in interagency monitoring of Ma’iingan populations in northern Wisconsin.
“The Leech Lake Reservation encompasses approximately 800,000 acres of land and water, but the amount of land under tribal title is only about 30,000 acres. For this reason it would be impractical to only conduct monitoring on our lands, and there are some wolf packs that occupy territories that are both in and outside the reservation boundaries. This is the reason we participate in the multiagency monitoring program that has been conducted across much of northern Minnesota approximately every five years. This gives us a much better picture of the wolf population on the reservation. It is the plan of the DRM to continue to support and participate in these monitoring efforts into the future. The band will also work with the DNR to establish harvest quotas should either party decide to allow for such harvest.”
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