Wisconsin sets 300-wolf limit after runaway spring hunt

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Wildlife officials in Wisconsin have set a 300-animal limit for this fall’s wolf hunt

  • By TODD RICHMOND – Associated Press
  • Aug 11, 2021Updated18 hrs ago

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FILE – This July 16, 2004, file photo, shows a gray wolf at the Wildlife Science Center in Forest Lake, Minn. Wisconsin wildlife officials will allow state-licensed hunters to kill scores of wolves this fall despite conservationists’ pleas to end wolf hunting completely after a wild spring season that saw hunters blow past their quota by almost 100 animals.Dawn Villella – stringer, AP

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wildlife officials in Wisconsin set a 300-animal limit Wednesday for the state’s fall wolf hunt, exceeding biologists’ recommendations as they study the impact of a rushed spring season that saw hunters takealmost twice as many wolves as allotted.

State Department of Natural Resources scientists asked its policy board to cap…

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