Re:Generations 2024

Fieldwork for the Isle Royale wolf-moose project—the oldest predator-prey study in the world—is led by researchers at Michigan Technological University and supported by volunteers. Last summer's researchers included two Huskies. Neither student minded being off their phones. Both put their cameras to regular use. Biomedical engineering major Wesley McGee and Jack Schafer, who majors in ecology and evolutionary biology, spent a month on Isle Royale beginning in late May as part of a four-student team. They backpacked roughly 150 miles both on- and off-trail to help research the relationship between moose, wolves, and environment. Their duties included measuring density and new growth of balsam fir—a primary winter food source for moose. They focused on more than 30 plots, including random locations and those moose are known to frequent.