With international attention continuing to shed light on Wisconsin’s reckless and grossly over quota February 2021 wolf hunt, the Department of Natural Resources (WDNR) remains tight-lipped about recent scientific reports that as many as a third of the state’s wolves were killed legally and illegally since losing federal protections in January of this year. Instead, WDNR officials are simply moving forward with plans for the next hunt in November 2021, while bear hunters continue to feed bears and wolves from thousands of intentional bait sites.

In 2020, more bear hunting hounds were killed by wolves than livestock in the state. Despite arguments for the February wolf hunt centering on the reported impact wolves were having on livestock producers, the biggest conflict that has hunters hating wolves more than any other game animal, is the killing of an average of two dozen bear hounds a year in mostly state and national…