Haliburton Wolf Centre; Haliburton Forest, Ontario
The Haliburton Wolf Centre, or more correctly, Haliburton Forest and Wildlife Reserve Wolf Centre, is on Kennisis Lake about 30 minutes drive north of Haliburton village. The Wildlife Reserve has been in operation since 1962, though the Wolf Centre is quite recent -- as late as 1996, when a Gray Wolf pack was brought here from Michigan.
Entrance to the Wolf Centre is $10 for adults and $6 for children or $20 for a family. Opening hours are 10 am to 5 pm and last entrance is 4:30 pm every day from Victoria Day (around May 25th most years) to Thanksgiving (October, in Canada).
In
winter,
that is from Thanksgiving to Victoria Day, the centre is only open on weekends.
They are fed road-kill, for the most part, deer or
beaver,
which are their natural food prey in the wild.
Speaking of 'wild', don't imagine that because these wolves are in a research center they are tame. The center staff and visitor centre building have the minumum impact of the pack as they possibly can. Feeding is necessary only because the area they have to roam isn't actually big enough to maintain wolf pack. They normally hunt over a huge territory, which the centre doesn't have.
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Wolves are very affectionate with family members and like to 'rough-house' a lot, if the wolves at Haliburton are any guide.
If you've enjoyed this glimpse of the Haliburton Highlands area, you may want to visit our page --
