DNR Secretary Adam Payne answered questions from the Senate's natural resources committee... on wolf management. When asked why the plan lacks a "target number" of wolves, Payne told lawmakers he expects the agency will revisit wolf population metrics to clarify what wildlife managers think is a sustainable wolf population. He said that would be informed …
Op Ed: Let’s move Wisconsin forward with wolves, not backward.
by Fred Clark, a forester, conservationist, and executive director of Wisconsin’s Green Fire, and Adrian Wydeven a wildlife biologist and co-chair of Wisconsin’s Green Fire’s Wildlife Work Group. In November 2022, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR) released a long-overdue Draft Wolf Management Plan reflecting the remarkable recovery of wolves in our state, new …
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Last call for comments to the DNR’s Wisconsin Wolf Management Plan!
The Wisconsin Wolf Management Plan comments are open until February 28, 2023. Before commenting, please read the following information in this post. Make your comments here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DC2M8W6. The following information From Wisconsin’s Green Fire Executive Director Fred Clark and Wildlife Work Group co-chair Adrian Wydeven bring a crucial voice of science in this opinion article …
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DNR Extends Public Comment Period for the Draft Wolf Management Plan
In a press release: The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) announced an extension to the public review and comment period for the draft Wolf Management Plan. The review period is extended until Feb. 28, 2023, at 11:59 p.m. This extension is intended to allow more time for the public to review the plan's details and …
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Will the gray wolf, an endangered species, just fresh off the list get its due process?
Image of gray wolves credit Voyageurs Wolf Project http://www.voyageurswolfproject.org In the latest round of gray wolf delisting news, a conservative advocacy group, Hunter Nation Inc, filed a lawsuit on February 2, 2021, against the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR), Natural Resources Board (NRB). The plaintiffs believe the NRB violated their rights by not approving …
Public is Invited to Comment at a Special Natural Resources Board Meeting: As GOP Legislators Push to Establish a Trophy Wolf Hunt
Photograph credit John E Marriott This Friday January 22, the Wisconsin Natural Resources Board will meet virtually for a Special Meeting to discuss the next steps to establish a wolf hunt in Wisconsin in 2021. Im a wolf tracker and founder of Wolves of Douglas County Wisconsin, was glad to hear the DNR is holding …
Snare Traps Indiscriminate Killers, Land Mines Concealed in the Wilderness
...Snare Trap is a device concealed underground and baited with tantalizing attractive scents capable of causing great suffering for its victims. A male Timber wolf in northern Minnesota became the latest victim of a snare trap. He became caught in a snare trap meant to catch and ensnare small game. The snare meant for small …
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Second Hunting Hound Killed in Black Bear Pursuit Training
Eighteen days into the 2-month-long period for training hunting dogs to pursue black bear in northern Wisconsin, the WI DNR confirmed that a Plott hound hunting dog had been killed by wolves in Ashland county, Wisconsin as the bloody dog-on-wolf conflict continues. From July 1st through the end of August, hounders are allowed to train their …
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Who’s really to blame for the conflict between bear hunters and wolves in Wisconsin’s north woods?Â
Why the name "Wolves of Douglas County Wisconsin?"During Wisconsin's wolf recovery years I helped monitor wolves as a volunteer winter wolf carnivore tracker in Douglas County Wisconsin. I've been helping with wolf recovery since 1998. I've witnessed the conflict between bear hunters and wolves while radio trapping wolves in the Chequamegon national forest. They've hated …
Winter wolf monitoring 2016-17 meeting scheduled for June 8th
WDNR public wolf count meeting for reporting the results of the winter monitoring period has been scheduled. Information is below. Date – June 8th, 1:00-3:30pm Location – 4700 Rib Mountain Dr, Wausau, WI Content – The Wildlife Management Program will provide information collected during the 2016-17 wolf monitoring period Wolves of Douglas …
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