Group aims to stop wolf hunting in Minnesota
August 4, 2012 at 7:00 pm in Duluth News Tribune
A group called Howling for Wolves is seeking to stop Minnesota’s first managed wolf hunting and trapping season this fall. The organization, which has no paid membership, is based in Hopkins, Minn. It has filed a request for Department of Natural Resources correspondence on wolf management under the state’s Data Practices Act. It also has paid for a billboard in the Twin Cities calling for support to stop the wolf season.
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Tree Hugging animal rights morons just don’t get it. There are too many wolves they need to be controlled. No one is saying kill them all but they are saying there are too many and they need to be kept in check.
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You spend 1 nIght at my shack and I’ll show you why we need to thin them out. Had a relative lose a German Shepard over wolves. I have plenty of stories that support wolves are NOT scared of humans too.
Tomorrow the application process starts everyone, make sure you apply! This year is gonna be nice being able to shoot brown or gray!!
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I get yea….I do. I have to watch myself to. They are aggressive. I have seen what they do to moose and deer after the fact. It’s not pretty…that’s for sure.
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EAT A WOLF,,,,, SAVE A DEER !!
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Are you making wolf jerky cribmaster? I will take a pass but the deer sausage and jerky I will never turn down.
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Specialized dogs scaring the wolves away?!?! Bahahahaha!!! This lady needs to sit down, hug a tree and move on to California. It’s people like this that prevent yuppie groups from gettin anywhere! These people crack me up, wow
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She has BIRCH BARK under her FingerNails !!
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The birch bark and willow thongs can be a little troublesome at times too.
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Wolves will take out the dogs- llamas or donkeys might do a better job- w can be sold and the meat sold for animal food processing, just like mink- pelts sold and meat goes into animal food.
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Both WI and MN DNRs include foot traps and snares as part of their wolf management plan. Neither agency expects deer hunters to cull even half of their wolf quota. Unfortunately many animals will suffer in unchecked foot traps for days and there is nothing an understaffed DNR can do about it. How about developing a modern method DNR instead of promoting a 16th century (foot trap) solution?
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“A group called Howling for Wolves … is based in Hopkins, Minn.” Their non-hunting methods for controlling wolves must work. I’ve been to Hopkins many times and have never seen a wolf there.
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While I have no current interest in participating in hunting or trapping wolves, I do want the hunting and trapping resumed. I’ve had wolves in my front yard on numerous occasions, showing little to no fear of humans. I don’t live very far from Hwy 61, on a heavily traveled county road, so these wolves are hanging around in a highly populated area. It’s time to re-instill some fear into these animals so they don’t get too comfortable around people. For yet another group of occasional visitors to be protesting and costing the taxpayers millions of dollars in legal fees disgusts me. NE MN is not the ‘sand-box’ of the ‘citiots’. It’s our home. I promise you, if a wolf goes after my family (which includes my pets), the wolf will loose.
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I have mixed emotions. I’ve recently seen 4 of them outside my fenced in back yard. One was the size of a Mastiff. A thin, HUNGRY Mastiff! I fear for myself and my 2 dogs while walking them through the woods 2x/day via ATV. I hope that the “bear (pepper)spray” will do the trick when/if they attack so we can get away. I DO have a rifle to take care of them after incapacitated and will not be hesitant to use it after the threat of an attack to save my dogs. NOW I’m worried about wolves, THEN I will be worried about wolves AND traps. My dogs are more likely to be caught in a trap than attacked by wolves! To be fair, I worry about the bears also.
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You tre hugers shood just go back were you came frum and leaf us peeple who half to life with wulfs alone. The DNR knoes what they are doing, this wulf hunte is based on sciense. You need to go take some wildlive manajar classes and lurn something like me about wulfes and how they kill our deers and thretten our babies. Its very commin but the libral news won’t tell the storry.. Its us locals and our ATV riding and are God-gievn wolf killing rites that are a endanjered speces!!!
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The DNR “Does Know” what it is doing.
The MN DNR is one of the most Crooked, Dirty, Money Suck’n departments in Minnesota.
Organized Criminals and the DNR gets away with it !!!
Yes , they know what they are doing !
They have Bud Grant and Kent Hrbek telling everybody that it is OK to “Jack Up” Fishing License,,,
nearly Doubling the price of snowmobile license,,,
PLUS they receive 25% of the Lottery Proceeds
and TAX the HELL out of us on Top Of it ALL !!!
Lottery Proceeds in Vermont, Michigan, North Carolina go to education,,,,, NOT in MINNESOTA !!
This DNR is nothing but a SUCK HOLE of our hard earned $$$!!
DNR runs Rampit with NO ACCountabilty !!
But,,, the peoples minds are so SATURATED will this Tree Hugg’n,, DFL way of thinking,,,
this crime will continue,,, every day.,,,, non-stop !!
DNR knows what it is doing,,,, DNR has we Tax Payers BENT OVER like a “U-BOLT”
and are getting away with it !!!
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cribmaster said:
“Lottery Proceeds in Vermont, Michigan, North Carolina go to education,,,,, NOT in MINNESOTA !!”
Lottery proceeds DO go to fund education in MN, even though that is NOT what the voters approved the lottery for in the beginning.
The reason the DNR gets so much of the lottery proceeds is because, that’s specifically what Minnesotans DID vote for.
Lottery History:
In 1988, 77% of Minnesota voters approved a constitutional amendment establishing the Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund ENRTF (Article XI, Sec. 14)- a constitutionally dedicated fund that originates from a combination of Minnesota State Lottery proceeds and investment income.
(The assets of the fund shall be appropriated by law for the public purpose of protection, conservation, preservation, and enhancement of the state’s air, water, land, fish, wildlife, and other natural resources)
Impetus for the Lottery began in November 1988 when 57 percent of Minnesota voters approved a constitutional amendment to authorize a lottery
The legislation that placed the lottery amendment on the 1988 ballot also provided that the net profits from the lottery would be divided equally between two new funds.
The first was an environmental trust fund for environmental and natural resources projects. The second was a fund to finance the new Greater Minnesota Corporation, a quasi-entrepreneurial agency within state government created primarily to enhance economic development and technology transfer outside the metropolitan area.
Even though this allocation was presented to the voters as part of the campaign on behalf of the lottery amendment, the legislature began making changes in it almost before the first ticket was sold. The original allocation remained in effect only for fiscal 1990, the lottery’s first year of operation. For fiscal 1991, the legislature reduced the environmental trust fund’s share from 50 percent to 40 percent and the Greater Minnesota fund’s share from 50 percent to 25 percent. The remainder went for capital improvement projects in natural resources and state universities.
To prevent further reductions in the environmental trust fund’s share the legislature placed on the ballot, and voters subsequently approved, a constitutional amendment to guarantee 40 percent of net lottery profits to the fund until 2000. (A subsequent constitutional amendment passed in 1998 extended the dedication until 2025).
For fiscal 1992 the legislature changed the lottery allocation again, dedicating the 60 percent of the net profits not guaranteed to be in our environmental trust fund to the state’s general fund. This 60/40 allocation has remained in effect since then.
http://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/hrd/issinfo/gamblott.htm
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We have the right to protect our homes, our families, and our property from wolves. How dare the DNR or any agency threaten me with prosecution when I shoot a wolf that becomes a threat. I did not ask the DNR of any federal agency to introduce these dangerous animals back into populated areas, but they are here. These agencies are out of control and don’t seem to answer to the public. How do I get the message to them?
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Hunting wolves to protect your family??? Hahahahaha! Now I can say I have heard it all…. be careful, those wolves are going to huff and puff and blow your house down!
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Another funny story.. I remember not long ago many in the city of Duluth wanted no part of a Deer hunt as poor Bambi was so cute. Then Bambi started eating their trees, gardens, and causing car crashes. Now this became an issue.
So until the anti hunting crowd loses “Fifi” this will be something for them to drag through courts and tabloids to try writing articles about.
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I think Hopkins would be a terrific place to start a new pack. I wonder if Howling for Wolves would cosider sponsoring a pack in their neighborhood. They might have to change their name to Howling about Wolves, or Howling at Wolves, or Running from Wolves.
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In the last 30 years: A teacher in Alaska was killed by wolves is 2010. A student in Saskatchewan was killed by wolves in 2005. In Uttar Pradesh, India, 74 people were killed or injured in 1996 and 1997.
While I agree that in the lower 48 states, it has been quite a while since wolves killed a person, there are still many documented cases of wolf attacks. The only reason they didn’t turn fatal was because of people rescuing the person being attacked (which is largely children).
I don’t think we need to exterminate the wolves, as tree huggers would like the rest of the world to believe, but they do need to be kept in check. As the wolf population continues to grow and the wolves get more used to being around humans and their fear is lowered (even if only slightly), the number of attacks will undoubtedly increase.
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Just what I like a discussion based on sound scientific fact. To bad not much of it is ocurring here but the ramblings of individuals who seem to have opinions and nothing but opinions. And we allow some people to vote.
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Curious how you didn’t offer any scientific facts either. Thanks for rambling.
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Is this the same science that told us oil comes from dead leaves and dinosaurs…?
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Here! Here! I’m up to my knees in redneck ignorance.
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