Looks like WI is going to have a wolf hunt soon. Hope it doesn't get shut down by some judge.
WI Approved Wolf Hunt
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Muley bound
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It’ll be one of the best moves our state could make! Hopefully it goes through. There’s a lot of them here. Spread out further across the state every year too
dan maule
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Muley bound
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Hopefully after this week long hunt in the next couple weeks, this fall they’ll go back to the November through February season. As long as it doesn’t get shut down. I got a feeling, even though it’s only a week long, a lot wolves will go down!!!
Muley bound
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Well it looks like the wolf hunt has been pretty prosperous! Week long season is being closed down tomorrow cause the quota has already been met!!! Hopefully they’ll start the fall season in November. My brother in laws buddy got one on Monday.
My friend shot one this afternoon by Gordon. Spent 7.5 hours on the track and killed it at 25 yards about 30 minutes before dark.
Muley bound
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mallardsx2
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won't even make a dent but congrats to those who smacked em down!
Muley bound
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I completely agree with you on that one. It’s a start though. Like I stated, hopefully we can keep the season going for the upcoming years. The wolves have pretty much spread throughout a good portion of the state, even into the lower farmland zones. There’s a whole bunch of antis crying like little, irrational, uneducated babies about this hunt. Hopefully they don’t get their way
Colorado Cowboy
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But.....we have to start somewhere and it's a beginning! One down is better than none.
Muley bound
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I believe there were 82-85 wolves harvested in 2 days
mallardsx2
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Locals have been shooting them for years. They put one of the tracking collars on a train several years back if I recall....lol
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Hilltop
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85 wolves out of an estimated 250+ packs in the state... Wonder why the quota was so low?
JimP
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That is really a pretty good percentage on the harvest rate even if you go up to 300 wolves in the state.
I know that a lot of us would like to see a higher percentage but we need to take what we can get.
I know that a lot of us would like to see a higher percentage but we need to take what we can get.
wow! wisconsans really stepped up ! not a bad dent in a week!
Hilltop
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300 wolves in the state? They estimate 250+ packs of wolves in the state.
"The estimated number of packs, which are primarily found in the northern part of the state, rose from 243 to 256." wiscnews.com
The reality is biologists really don't know how many wolves there are. If they are estimating that many packs, there has to be well over 1000 wolves and more realistically likely over 2000. With females having an average of 5 pups per year, and a pup survival rate of 60-80% in the Great Lakes region(wolf.org), the harvest they had during this hunt doesn't even equal the population growth.
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bottom line ..................wolves are not endangered and deserve no protection.
dan maule
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I don't understand it totally but the original quota was 200 animals, one of the Native tribes has rights to half of the quota so they were given 100 tags which left 100 for the state to manage. I have not heard what the tribes are doing with their quota. From what I understand the harvest numbers do not include any of the Tribes quota.