Another wolf hunt? Republicans push to open season on Michigan wolves

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Updated Feb 18, 2021;Posted Feb 18, 2021

Wolf Hunt
A wolf killed by Jeff Powell is checked into the DNR station at Wakefield on Friday, Nov. 15, 2013. The wolf was the second recorded kill in the Michigan’s first wolf hunt. (Cory Morse | MLive.com)

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LANSING, MI — Republican state lawmakers want Michigan to hold another hunting and trapping season for gray wolves in the Upper Peninsula after the federal governmentstripped the animals of endangered species protectionduring the final months of the Trump administration.

Sen. Ed McBroom, a Republican who represents the western U.P., and Sen. Jon Bumstead, R-Newaygo, introduced a resolution Thursday, Feb. 18, that urges the state to organize a hunting season this year because there’s “no statutory requirement or precedent” to delay one.https://ee92db376085a70d2bebd8ddcbc7b302.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-37/html/container.html

The resolution,S.R. 15, was promptly scheduled for a natural resources committee hearing on Wednesday…

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