Submitted by Pauline Beart
Long time back, wolves were under the extent of extinction in Wisconsin. George Meyer, Wisconsin Wildlife Federation, said this on the eve at the start of the state’s second wolf hunting season.
In the 1970s, new animals were introduced into the state, which led to a change in the wildlife federation. George says that the aim of the organization was to have 100 wolves in the northern Wisconsin, but the current population is 10 times the existing goal.
The current year, February will be the month of the start of wolves hunt. It would lead to an end, when the hunters and trappers reach the quota of 251 animals. This rate is twice the last year’s quota of 116 wolves.
The scientists warned that just two years after the wolves were removed from the federal endangered list; the wolves hunting could be destabilized.
Some members from the state Department of Natural Resources (DNR) committee have reunited themselves to maintain a population goal of 350 wolves. This proposal is opposite to the scientific model for harvest management, which states that 350 is too less to reliably manage the wolf population.
Timothy Van Deelen, a wildlife ecologist and associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said: “My opinion is the 350 number is the one people who simply don’t like wolves have seized upon”.