State overwhelmingly favors wolf hunt
Brown County showed approval for a state ban on deer baiting
By Kevin Naze
Press-Gazette correspondent
State Department of Natural Resources mammalian ecologist Adrian Wydeven of Park Falls said any public hunting or trapping season for gray wolves in the state is likely years off — if it happens.
Wydeven, the state's top wolf expert, spoke Tuesday after seeing voting results from a pair of Conservation Congress advisory questions at Monday's annual spring fish and wildlife rules hearings across Wisconsin.
One of them, asking if a season framework and harvest goals should be initiated to maintain the wolf population within established goals, passed in all 72 counties by a vote of 4,848 to 772.
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