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The Center is very large and true to the log cabin north woods

architecture. They had a large hall with exhibits concerning the
history of the wolf and man through worldwide literature.

The wolves have an acre or more of wooded land to wander and
can den if they wish. We were lucky that the wolves were hanging

around with their human friend close to the viewing area as we
had a long time to watch them all at play and at rest. We didn’t

get to see them eat as they only feed them once a week, on
Saturday nights. Wolves gorge and fast in the wild as they only get

prey on average once a week. It would not be uncommon for a 90-
pound wolf to eat 12 pounds of meat at one “helping”.

We had a spirited lecture by a young lady on interesting facts
about wolves. Then we saw a slide show on the habitat and other

residents of the Arctic Wolf. The man who has done the most
research on the wolf and published widely, David Mech, was there

today and in the enclosure with the wolves.

We finished up our stay with an hour walk through the adjoining

woods with a guide. She pointed out various plants and trees.
Nothing to do with wolves – just a pleasant walk.

We then drove all over the place trying once again to see the

lakes. There’s supposed to be thousands of them around here but
it’s hard to know that from the car. We ran into the same problem

here as at Lake of the Woods. Trees from the road hide the
shoreline and the shoreline you can get to by car is all privately

owned. The public land is designated wilderness and therefore

there are no roads.

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