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DO YOU HAVE OPINIONS ON HOW THE FEDS SHOULD MANAGE WOLVES IN AMERICA? A MEDIATOR WANTS TO HEAR FROM YOU.

By Andrew McKean

I don’t know many people who have unsettled opinions about wolves. Most hunters I know, especially those in the Upper Midwest and West who live among the wild canines, would like permanent permission to hunt them. Animal-rights activists would like us to stop hunting everywhere and want to restore wolves into vacant habitats across the country. Many citizens who live far from the apex predators like the idea of more wolves on the landscape as symbols of a sort of fierce wildness that has been lost across much of America. Those differing viewpoints have moved wolf management from one pole to the other over the last decade, as federal protections have been imposed, then removed, then reinstated, often by court order. The result has been seesaw management that has sowed uncertainty…

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Game & Fish East (Digital) - 1 Issue, September 2024

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