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State and federal bounties (no longer in effect), habitat loss, poaching, car kills, disease, starvation and parasites have all contributed to the decline of the timber wolf. Today, thanks largely to protection afforded by the 1973 Endangered Species Act, wolf populations have returned and are growing in the Upper Midwest .
