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Email from Dr Linda Rutledge of the Eastern Wolf Survey, Trent University:

Hi ***

There is no way to tell for sure [these are true eastern timber wolves] without genetics, but I suspect the black ones/white ones are gray wolves (C. lupus) and the others are a Great-Lakes Boreal wolf (of hybrid ancestry from Canis lupus x C. lycaon - although some will tell you it is a gray wolf x western coyote hybrid)

Timber wolf has been used widely for eastern wolves and boreal wolves and great lakes wolves. I associate that term with the Great Lakes-Boreal wolf that occurs in Great Lakes states and in the Boreal forests of Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec. Mariomassone (talk) 18:07, 19 April 2014 (UTC)