Minnesota DNR proposes two-part wolf hunting season
May 21, 2012 at 12:37 pm in Duluth News Tribune
In its first hunt since assuming wolf management from the federal government, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has proposed an early wolf hunting season that would coincide with the state’s firearms deer seasob opening Nov. 3 and a late wolf hunting and trapping season that would open Nov. 24. Continue Reading
Pretty amazing. Only 6 months off the endangered list and already, we NEED to start killing them.
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And killing them by the hundreds. I am horrified.
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They have only remained on the endangered species list by court action, not sound science. They were to be delisted several years ago.
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Trapping? Really? In the year of 2012, the human species is going to torture these creatures now, leaving then in traps for days to suffer? Really? If you or I treated our dogs and cats this way, we would be arrested for abuse.
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And the article says there was little public opposition. Strange, since many people I know wrote letters to the State Legislature and the Governor opposing the proposed hunt.
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The problem is, do you want domestic livestock to be for human food or wolf food? What are you going to say when your little Foofoo is a light snack for a wolf? The state is clearly unwilling to adequately compensate farmers for losses due to wolf depredations. The number of wolves in the state is out of hand due to previous environmentalist meddling in derailing sensible wolf management.
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You mean sensible as in wiping them out except for several hundred in extreme NE MN?
Wolf populations can handle a scientifically managed hunting season, that’s for sure. But there is no scientific reason TO hunt them, and more than there is reason to hunt broad-tailed hawks or red tailed hawks or just about any predator. This is politics, not science.
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The politics is the far left nut jobs that put animals before people.
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Right…millions of people in MN and 3000 wolves, and that’s putting animals before people.
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There are likely far more than 3000 wolves in Minnesota.
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What is the science behind allowing an unbridled explosion in the population of wolves to the detriment of nearly every animal species?
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NO, I’d rather have my Foofoo get caught in a wolf trap.
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Shoot em, trap em within resonable limits, I don’t care.
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