"Deer Disease Poses Risks To General Public, Not Just Hunters"

[KevinK]

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"Protest the widespread trapping and killing of wolves. Wolves serve the important ecological purpose of culling diseased deer from the herd––a function which is lost when they are hunted and trapped"

Actually wolves will certainly cull more than diseased animals from the herd, they eat a TON of fawns. When a federal judge declared any hunting of wolves to be illegal, deer population in the northern half of the state declined substantially while attacks on farm animals and dogs rose substantially. The actually DNR themselves encouraged a small hunt to manage wolf numbers to balance their predatory behavior upon endangered and susceptible species.....until ONE federal judge who has never stepped foot in the state for any reason decided he knew more than trained biologists who actually manage our resources. Also he didn't consider that the wolf breed reintroduced to Wisconsin was not a native one to begin with.

I get it, wolves are beautiful animals and people want to see them protected. But what this reckless move has resulted in, is farmers and hunters occasionally shooting them to take care of the problem themselves. I don't encourage it, but if you're a farmer who has lost 30+ calves, what are you going to do? By removing ANY culling of the pack, you're left with the consequences of overpopulation and people taking management into their own hands.

No one wants to listen to people who live next to them and actually deal with them. It's mainly a bunch of city residents who see a wolf in a majestic picture and think....LETS PROTECT THEM AT ALL COSTS, not knowing that there is a careful balance for every kind of species. The Wisconsin DNR GREATLY objected to the removal of the wolf hunt for a reason(which was very carefully managed, with every animal being registered and inspected by a warden).