Melanie Weberg: ‘Enough is enough’ on failure to protect wolves : Ct

In Wisconsin by Twowolves1 Comment

Dear Editor: “Would state management endanger wolves?” Three days following the relisting of Great Lakes wolves, one of Wisconsin’s wolf recovery biologists, Richard Thiel, answered, “The jury is out.”

The following examples of mismanagement by Wisconsin may have something to do with that: 17 wolf packs gone, 700+ wolves killed in trophy hunts, 170+ killed at the behest of livestock owners, 180-360 wolves poached, pack size down to 3.2, the unprecedented use of hound dogs trained to track and fight wolves, increasing threats of poaching by fringe hunting groups, unregulated trapping in woods saturated with bait and gruesome traps, and more.

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