They flat out lie about the wolf population in Minnesota estimates are 2500 to 3000. Double it and it would be accurate. The damn things are be spotted in the suburbs now.
That law won't make much difference in the part of MN where I hunt. People around there have been shooting and trapping wolves for a long time legal or not. I'm not saying they should...but they do
It's also irritating that a federal judge can rule this way despite the dnr having a rifle and trapping season because of overpopulation of wolves. What qualifies him? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
The humane society thinks they won some great victory. All this really means is the MN DNR will have to kill more of the wolves themselves rather than depend on hunters and trappers to help manage the population. Instead of making some income selling tags the gov will have to spend more $ due to these tree huggin, ignorant morons.
Here in the U.P. there is officially over 650 wolves...true numbers more likely 650 in western half alone. People have already been taking matters into their own hands and with the dismal deer season this year making more hunters ticked off the number of wasted wolves will only climb(I am willing to bet that somewhere around 200 are already being shot illegally per year...there are several areas that should or did have wolf packs that no longer have them and those areas still have deer - regardless of the tough winters we had which we have had before and never had a whitetail population crash like we did the last 3 years...and actually the decline has been going on since the late 90s when the wolves population exploded). This judge basically just signed the death warrant for many more wolves.
