Public meetings set to gather input for wolf hunting and tra

[Dewey]

Public meetings set to gather input for wolf hunting and trapping season rule
Weekly News article published: May 29, 2012 by the Central Office
MADISON -- The public will have the opportunity at four upcoming meetings to provide input on the draft concepts to be included in a wolf hunting and trapping season rule that will be going to the state Natural Resources Board on July 17 in Stevens Point as an emergency rule.
The Wisconsin Legislature passed a bill calling for a wolf hunting and trapping season that the governor signed on April 2. The Department of Natural Resources has been directed to implement a wolf hunting and trapping season this fall. To do so, an emergency rule and harvest quotas and permit levels must be adopted by the Natural Resources Board.
The Natural Resources Board approved the rule scope statement [pdf] on May 23.
The public meetings will include a review of the history of wolf recovery and management in Wisconsin and will focus on major rule components such as harvest management zones, as well as potential wolf harvest quotas and hunting and trapping permit levels. Public comments and questions are welcome.
These meetings will start with an open house for visiting with DNR staff at 6 p.m. Staff presentations will begin at 7 p.m. with time for questions and comments to follow. The meetings are being held at:
June 6, Spooner – Spooner High School Auditorium, 801 County Highway A.
June 8, Black River Falls – Black River Falls Middle School Auditorium, 1202 Pierce St.
June 14, Fond du Lac – UW-Fond du Lac Auditorium, 400 University Drive.
June 15, Rhinelander – James Williams Middle School Auditorium, 915 Acacia Lane.
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT: Bill Vander Zouwen, DNR wildlife and landscape ecology chief – 608-266-8840; Bill Cosh, DNR spokespers – 608-267-2773; or Kurt Thiede, DNR Division of Land administrator – 608-266-5833

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[dan]

The Wisconsin Legislature passed a bill calling for a wolf hunting and trapping season that the governor signed on April 2.

Thank you Governor Walker!

[BigHunt]

The Wisconsin Legislature passed a bill calling for a wolf hunting and trapping season that the governor signed on April 2.

Thank you Governor Walker!

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[Uncle Lou]

power to the states.

[Black Squirrel]

It would be good to go to these meetings and voice your opinions. There are going to be alot of anti's here, trying to make it very dificult to hunt wolves. They want to make it illegal to: bait them, hunt them with dogs, hunt them on public state and fedral lands, hunt them at night, limit hunting to only areas where there has been a livestock depredation claim, not be able to huntthem during the gun deer season, etc. Basically anything that makes it difficult to actually get out and hunt them.

[dan]

Wisconsin Assembly Approves Wolf Hunting
By JAMES GORMAN

http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/ ... f-hunting/

Less than two months after wolves in the Great Lakes region
were removed from the federal endangered species list, the Wisconsin State Assembly approved a bill on Wednesday that would open the way for a wolf hunting and trapping season.

The bill, supported by hunting groups, Republicans and some Democrats, passed by a 69-25 vote. It was opposed by environmental groups and the Great Lakes Indian Fish and Game Commission, which represents Ojibwe tribes in Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota. The tribes have significant rights in wildlife management in much of the area where wolves are found and said they were not consulted on the hunting plans as required by a treaty. State wildlife biologists also criticized various elements of the bill.

The measure now goes to Gov. Scott Walker.

A number of [glow=red]Democrats spoke Wednesday against the bill[/glow] and sought amendments, [glow=red]denouncing it as “very irresponsible[/glow] and anti-science.” No Republicans spoke for the bill or against the amendments.

Seven proposed amendments failed to win approval. Most were intended to soften the bill, which would allow hunting at night with dogs, lights and traps. [glow=red]One amendment, offered by a Democrat who cast it as a jobs measure, would have required that hunters eat the wolves they killed, supposedly creating some additional jobs for butchers and chefs.[/glow]

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources would have the leeway to decide how many licenses to issue for the hunting season, which would run from mid-October through the end of February.

[kenn1320]

Good luck to you guys, dont see that happening here in Mi unless you find an angle for the state to make $$$$

[dan]

One amendment, offered by a Democrat who cast it as a jobs measure, would have required that hunters eat the wolves they killed, supposedly creating some additional jobs for butchers and chefs.

A number of Democrats spoke Wednesday against the bill and sought amendments, denouncing it as “very irresponsible and anti-science.”

[Scot]

After the damage I have seen them inflict upon the hunting in Idaho, they are a sore subject for me.

[dan]

After the damage I have seen them inflict upon the hunting in Idaho, they are a sore subject for me.

The Democrats? Or the wolves?

[Scot]

Good one Dan!