The Minnesota Wolf Project maintains an extensive education program. The wolf is one of America's most controversial animals, and considerable misinformation has long persisted about the creature. All recovery plans dealing with wolves encourage extensive public education about wolves. Thus, as part of public-private partnership, Project scientists founded the International Wolf Center, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to deliver objective, accurate information about wolves. Northern Prairie uses the International Wolf Center as its primary arm for interpreting its research results about wolves to the general public.
Most mammalian research done by Northern Prairie staff is conducted in the field.
A 10-acre enclosure and observation tower, suitable for a variety of mammalian behavioral studies, is located at the Center's Woodworth Research Station, about 40 miles NW of Jamestown. Dormitory, laboratory, and other support facilities at the Woodworth Station permit researchers to live on site during the field season. As part of a partnering arrangement with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's North Central Forest Experiment Station, the Kawishiwi Field Laboratory near Ely, Minnesota is available to Northern Prairie scientists studying wolves and white-tailed deer in the central Superior National Forest. Some 13 miles from Ely along a paved road, this facility has allowed Northern Prairie scientists to conduct long-term studies in a comfortable headquarters.