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Big Game => Elk => Topic started by: mudbrook on April 13, 2010, 01:29:44 PM
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Elk foundation rips wolf management
As officials in Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota await word whether the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service again will take wolves off the endangered species list, there's growing concern among hunters about wolf impacts on big-game animals.
Hunting forum message boards and letters to the editor in outdoors publications long have been filled with anti-wolf comments, yet major conservation organizations representing hunters have been quiet as the storm brewed.
That changed Thursday when the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation ? a 158,000-member-strong group that has protected or enhanced 5.7 million acres of wildlife habitat and helped restore elk to Wisconsin ? said pro-wolf supporters are party to what may become "one of the worst wildlife management disasters since the destruction of bison herds in the 19th century."
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http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/article/20100411/GPG0204/4110658/1233/Elk-foundation-rips-wolf-management