From the National Wildlife Federation website: Adopt a Gray Wolf In the upper Great Lakes region and in the Yellowstone area, wolf recovery has been a great conservation success story. However, continued attention is needed to protect these gains and to ensure similar successes in other regions where the enchanting night-time howls of wolves are…
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Congress Again Planning to Sell Out Wolves and Wildlife: Time For the Gloves to Come Off and Call Out Anti-Wildlife Politicians
This week an assortment of anti-wolf politicians from both parties have made good on their promise to introduce legislation that would strip court ordered Endangered Species Act protections from wolves in the Great Lakes and Wyoming. The goal of this legislation is to return wolves to the meat grinder and “management plans” of Wisconsin. Minnesota,…
Who is Misleading Who? The Reality About Hounding
The use of dogs against wildlife in Wisconsin has long been a contentious and controversial issue. In recent years it has become far more contentious when the Wisconsin Legislature voted to allow the use of dogs in the bill that authorized the yearly wolf slaughter starting in 2012. Hounders will have you believe that their…
What the Wisconsin DNR Does Not Want You to Know…….24/7/365 Hounding Against Wolves
One of the biggest problems in the wildlife advocacy movement is that far more often than not we are in a reactive mode rather than a proactive one. This was certainly the case in 2012 following the Obama Administration’s delisting of gray wolves in the Great Lakes. National “wildlife advocacy” groups made the assumption that…
Appeals Court Rules That Hounders Are Able To “Train” Their Dogs Against Wolves…….The Fix Is In
**UPDATED 7/10/2014 4:45 PM** According to a wildlife advocate that spoke with Wisconsin DNR Carnivore Biologist Dave McFarland, today’s court ruling means that there are ZERO rules for “training” with dogs against wolves and that hounders can now use their dogs against them 365 days a year. You read that right. Hounders as of now…
Wisconsin Wolf Season Report Shows No “Conclusive” Evidence of Dog Fighting……..but………..
In 2013 the state sanctioned wolf kill season accounted for 257 reported deaths of gray wolves in Wisconsin. The reckless kill quota numbers along with rampant poaching, killings by “Wildlife Services” assassins, and other forms of mortality led to a staggering 19 percent drop in the Wisconsin wolf population since the beginning of 2013. 2013…
