Wisconsin
New Wisconsin wolf plan eliminates state population goal
MADISON, Wis. (AP) – Wisconsin wildlife officers have launched their first new wolf administration plan in virtually a quarter-century but it surely doesn’t set up any statewide inhabitants objectives.
The Division of Pure Assets adopted a plan in 1999 that known as for capping the statewide wolf inhabitants at 350 animals. Wolf hunters have lengthy used that quantity to justify beneficiant harvest quotas.
The draft plan the DNR launched Thursday doesn’t embody any statewide inhabitants objective.
As a substitute it recommends evaluating circumstances in every of the state’s six wolf searching zones and deciding whether or not to scale back the native inhabitants, hold it steady or enable it to develop. A federal choose in February restored endangered species protections for wolves throughout a lot of the nation.
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