Wisconsin wildlife officials released their first new wolf management plan in almost a quarter-century but the document doesn't establish a new statewide population goal, a number that has become a flashpoint in the fight over hunting quotas.
This past February a federal judge restored endangered species protections for gray wolves across most of the country, including Wisconsin, making hunting the animal illegal.
But U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials could push to remove protections if they deem the population has sufficiently recovered, reactivating Wisconsin’s hunt. Melissa Smith, executive director of Friends of the Wisconsin Wolf & Wildlife, a wolf advocacy group, said the plan is still too focused on giving hunters kill opportunities and controlling the population. But she said the group was pleased to see the 350-population goal “finally be buried, as it should have 25 years ago.
“I’m not sure will defuse any of the fighting,” Kazmierski said. “It depends on how they set the metrics up. Until I know what the metrics are and the public knows what those metrics are, how much dog depredation, how much deer killed is tolerable, it really means nothing. It means we’re not going to manage them at all.”— Reducing the window for registering wolf kills from 24 hours to eight hours.
— Educating the public about wolves by sending out emails and texts related to wolf conflicts, public meetings and hunting season updates as well as streamline wolf information on the DNR’s website.
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