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Science on Tap @ The Deepwater Grille – Gray Wolves in Wisconsin
April 15, 2025 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
Adrian Wydeven, Timber Wolf Alliance
This presentation will discuss the biology and ecology of wolves in Wisconsin, and how wolves are impacting deer and forest ecosystems. Adrian will also examine the current and future scientific management of the state wolf population.
Adrian obtained a BS degrees in Biology and Wildlife Management at University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point in 1976, and a MS degree in Wildlife Ecology from Iowa State University at Ames in 1979. From 1980 through 1982, he worked as an assistant wildlife area manager in northeast Missouri. In 1982 he returned to Wisconsin to work for the Department of Natural Resources as a wildlife manager in Oshkosh, Appleton, and Shawano 1982-1990. From 1990-2013 Adrian moved to Park Falls, heading up the state wolf recovery and management programs and other programs on non-game wildlife in northern Wisconsin. He was involved with monitoring and management of American martens, surveys for lynx, investigations of cougar observations, surveys of other carnivores, serving on the state wolf, furbearer, elk, marten, and bat advisory committees, as well as other state and federal wildlife advisory committees.
In February 2013, he began to work as a Forest Wildlife Specialist, promoting forest management practices that enhanced or protected habitat for various forest wildlife species working closely with foresters, land agencies and landowners. Adrian retired from the DNR on January 3, 2015. He worked part-time as coordinator of the Timber Wolf Alliance with the Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute (SOEI) at Northland College in Ashland, WI, from September 2015 through June 2017. He continues to volunteer as the Chair of the Timber Wolf Alliance Advisory Council, and does contract with the SOEI for workshops and talks; does volunteer wolf, bird, bat surveys, and Snapshot camera surveys for WDNR; and is active as a volunteer with Wisconsin Green Fire. He continues working on issues involving wolf conservation, other carnivores and wildlife in general. Adrian and his wife Sarah live near Cable, Wisconsin.
