U.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)- On 11 August 2021, the Wisconsin Natural Resources Board held a meeting that had, as one part of the agenda, the setting of a quota for the number of wolves to be harvested in the November 2021 hunt. The board took testimony from over 50 people. The meeting took over six hours.
Link to youtube of Wisconsin Natural Resources Board Meeting on 11 August 2021.
At about 5:43:00 Board member Greg Kazmierski gave the number of wolves killed in previous years, which he read from a “green sheet” presented by the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) to the Board. The numbers were for the three hunts which were held in 2012, 2013, and 2014, before the wolf hunts were stopped by the lawsuit.
There were 224 wolves killed in 2012, 358 in 2013, and 207 in 2014.
The wolf population before the hunts were started was reported at 809. After the hunts, the wolf numbers was reported at 866. In spite of 789 wolves being taken over three years, the overall wolf numbers increased. In 2013, the DNR stated the goal was to put “downward pressure on the wolf population”. According to wisn.com:
The state’s wolf management plan, developed in 1999, calls for a population of 350 wolves. MacFarland said that plan will be updated in 2014.
An article year later, in the 2014 jsonline, showed the policy of the department was to reduce the wolf population, and the goal was a population of 350 wolves.
With state management restored, the DNR announced its desire to reduce the wolf population to a “biologically and socially acceptable level.”
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