Wolf Slaughter Statistics thru 2017

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Wolf Kill Statistics
When wolves lost their Endangered Species Act (ESA) protections in the Northern Rocky Mountains and Great Lakes regions in 2012, state
wildlife agencies gained exclusive management of their states’ wolf populations.

Once given management authority over wolves, the states of
Idaho, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Wisconsin, and Wyoming enacted “emergency” rules and laws to authorize the trophy hunting of them,
with unsporting and cruel methods such as the use of painful steel-jawed leghold traps, strangling neck snares, archery, and—in Wisconsin—
even packs of trailing hounds. What’s more, Wisconsin adopted a reckless management plan to allow the reduction of its wolf numbers from
approximately 800 down to 350—based upon no science. This was counter to the opinion of the majority of Wisconsin residents (even in rural
areas), who see wolves as beneficial for balancing nature.

Fortunately, in late 2014 Michigan voters overturned laws designating the wolf as a “game species,” and in 2014, two separate federal district
courts ordered, as a result of lawsuits by The HSUS and other wildlife advocacy organizations, that wolves in Wyoming, Michigan, and Wisconsin
were granted “endangered” status, while those in Minnesota were granted “threatened” status under the ESA. The courts’ orders stopped any
further hunting, trapping, or hounding of wolves in those states. Today, wolves in Wyoming, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan remain under
protection of the ESA.

Sadly, trophy hunting of wolves continues in Idaho and Montana. Wolves in these states were delisted through Congressional action in 2011.
The fight is not over. Every day The HSUS works hard to protect wolves from being unjustly persecuted across the U.S.—whether by individuals,
states, or even USDA Wildlife Services. A 2016 study by Kelly George, Jeremy Bruskotter, and others shows that the majority—more than 60
percent—of Americans value wolves and want them protected, not harmed.
The table below details how many wolves have been killed in each state during their trophy hunting seasons:

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