To the Journal editor:

A recent interview mischaracterized the ballot campaign that stopped the recreational wolf hunt in Michigan (“DNR biologist talks predators,” July 23), claiming that Keep Michigan Wolves Protected (KMWP), the ballot committee that successfully overturned two wolf hunting laws in the November 2014 general election, “opposes killing wolves for any reason.”

This is simply not true. Throughout the campaign, KMWP stated that Public Acts 290 and 318 of 2008, effective upon delisting, allowed the lethal control of depredating wolves. KMWP stated clearly they had no objection to those laws. Research suggests that the removal of specific, problem wolves–when non-lethal measures were unsuccessful–was more effective than the random killing of wolves through recreational hunting and trapping.

KMWP objected to the unnecessary law designating the wolf as a game species, and the Michigan Department of Natural Resources’ plan for a recreational wolf hunting/trapping season claiming that a…