Shoot at us and we'll be gone Minnesota 2921 We'll never be your friend Idaho 705 But now the rage has gone away Wisconsin 690 We're coming back again Montana 566 Wyoming 343 Just a lonesome wanderer loping through the night N.Carolina 120 Or an alpha leader followed by his pack Arizona 29 We're claiming back what's ours by right California 1 The wolves are coming back! Alaska 10000 Canada 52000 (2011 numbers)
Persecuted for centuries, in 1915 Congress sanctioned a wolf eradication campaign, which 50 years later was almost complete, northern Michigan and Minnesota the last outposts of a population once numbering 400 000. A similar retreat took place in Europe but now Spain has 2000, Italy and Poland 1000 each, Sweden 220 and there are 200 in the French Alps, spreading north through France.