I signed up for the DNR emails that alert me when a hound gets attacked by a wolf; it's kind of interesting.

Not much Wi wolf chat lately. I think everyone is just rightfully frustrated at the bleak outlook.

It has taken a decade to rewrite the new wolf management plan and it still is not ready for public review. I frankly don't understand why it has been so hard. It's not like all the issues we argue about today are going to go away with a new plan. We will still be arguing about them so get the plan updated and move on.

The plan is to not have a plan

In the interim, make your own plan.

That suck being told what you can hunt, when you can hunt it, etc.

job protection and longevity for those employees writing
do you have mandatory retirement age ?

after seeing some of Minn collared wolves travels- they dont know boarders or distances they can travel.

Northof50 I don't think that is it. Folks doing a bunch of it are no longer around. Just working on it tends to shorten length of tenure. Lol

You mean wolves don't honor our border? No wonder we have so many issues in the northwest part of our state! Maybe we need to build a wall to keep them on your side.

Many times when writing drafts, the committee or group(s) try to plan for and forsee any and all issues and that can delay role out for a long time and almost never works well. Write a good plan that is easy to explain and inititate and make it so it can be adjusted, modified etc. easily and as needed as the seasons and years go by. Wildlife species are always in a state of flux and trying to resolve all issues before starting is not the best way to draft a management plan. I also think we have lost the will, desire or attitude for long term planning. The best way in my opinion to manage a species is to get on with it and collect data and do on time research and adjust as conditions merit. Trust on all sides has been lost and about the only way trust gets regained is by working out issues in real time stituations.

Bryce

Just failure in leadership. Every stakeholder should be signing a letter demanding it gets done, but maybe none of them value their time. They all have hundreds of hours into it by now.

it was Minn wolves coming up here, the closest collared wolves in Canada are 80 miles north of the boarder, but they have been known to go down a visit Red Lake reserve Minn
maybe they still think that is Canada since that band signed a Treaty with Canada in 1828.

It seems WDNR is purposely dragging their feet. That or they are making the plan way too complicated.

You’re first starting to think that now?

It seems huh? you didnt watch the skype meeting before the last season did'ja?

It isn't something I just now started thinking. It might have more to do with the Evers administration than anything, seeing as the WDNR Secretary reports to the governor. Or maybe the DNR staff are afraid of the antis or the courts, who knows.

I didn't watch the Zoom call Diggerman, but I've been following the issue closely for years as wolf trapping was 1 of my favorite things to do & I live in an area that badly needs a wolf season.

Preston cole sat in on those meetings and basically refused to participate, sat there all moody like, because they HAD to set a season. Thats what you get when you appoint a county parks commissioner to head the WDNR.

A couple pics from OnWisconsinOutdoors.com

The caption of the wolves eating the deer is rather stupid.

I'm talk specifically about the last sentence.

Wolves are going to kill and eat deer anyway they can, don't matter if there is "proper game management" or not.

It could have been a wounded deer in that case the wolves are culling the weakest deer like they should.But it actually looks like a healthy trophy buck that their killing because they’ve killed every other deer and baby bear in their path.