Why aren more lands outside Olympic National Park considered suitable wolf habitat?
Most of the land on the Olympic Peninsula outside the Park contains too many roads to be considered suitable wolf habitat as defined in this study. Some lands are at too high an elevation to provide year-round wolf habitat. The remaining lands were not considered large enough to support enough deer and elk to sustain at least two wolves year-round. The result is that 78 percent of the area considered suitable wolf habitat on the Olympic Peninsula is within the Olympic National Park and 19 percent is on the Olympic National Forest. The remaining lands (about 3 percent) are distributed among state, tribal and private ownership.
