Volunteer Carnivore Tracking Survey Blocks

Portions of northern and central Wisconsin were divided up into tracking blocks where wolves are, or are likely to occur. There may be a tracking block in your area or where you visit often. See Wisconsin's Volunteer Carnivore Tracking Program to find out what's involved in becoming a volunteer tracker.

Click on a region to choose a survey block area. At this time, maps are only available for survey blocks 1 to 50.

Each trained tracker is assigned a survey block of about 200 square miles. The survey block will be designated by a system of roads or natural boundaries such as lakes and rivers. Not all portions of the survey block will contain suitable habitat for forest carnivores. It will be the tracker's responsibility to survey the forested areas of his or her block for forest carnivores. Surveys are conducted by slowly driving the survey block 1 to 3 days after fresh snowfalls. All recent sets of tracks of medium and large forest carnivores are recorded along these snow-covered roads.