A wolf hunt in Wisconsin could happen as early as January 2021. The Wisconsin Bear Hunters Association is pushing for a wolf hunt without allowing the public to weigh in. As it stands now with any delisting, because of the Walker administration’s legislation that mandated a wolf hunt, the WDNR has no choice, but to …
Who has more common sense & self-restraint: the hound hunter or the gray wolf? The conflict continues…
Just this week in Wisconsin a hound hunter ran his dog through a wolf rendezvous site, and two gray wolves killed his dog. He went into the area looking for his dog and witnessed two timber wolves holding onto the dead dog. He not only disturbed wolf pups, causing the death of his dog; he …
Several dogs in pursuit of bear were “thrown to wolves” over the weekend in Wisconsin’s north woods
Decades-old conflict between bear hunters and wolves continues with more hunting dogs killed. Wildlife Services confirmed that wolves depredated the following hunting dogs over the weekend. A Walker Hound on 8/12/17 in the Town of Blaine, Burnett County. Then again on the very next day; Two Walker Hounds in the same incident on 8/13/17 in …
Harassment of an endangered species in the north woods of Wisconsin began July first
Hunters using dogs in pursuit of bear in the norths woods of Wisconsin run their hounds right through wolf rendezvous sites (where wolf pups are kept). Wolf pups are only about three months old when hunters begin running their dogs on bear. They run hounds through known wolf caution areas; even though WDNR sends out …
WODCW Op Ed: Bear hunting with hounds is “risky behavior’Â
In a Wisconsin State Journal, Guest Column, Carl Schoettel, of Neosho, president of the Wisconsin Bear Hunters Association, stated his opinion entitled; Bear hunting with hounds isn't risky behavior Schoettel was responding to a Wisconsin State Journal Editorial written on September 9, 2016; Stop payouts to bear hunters for dead dogs, Schoettel stating that it: …
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