https://gizmodo.com/ignoring-scientists-advice-wisconsin-will-allow-hunter-1847493964

The policy could imperil a wolf population that conservationists have fought to restore for decades.

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For years, conservationists have successfully fought torestore the Midwest’s wolf population. A new state policy could imperil that progress: Wisconsin’s Natural Resources Board voted last week to allow hunters to kill up to 300 wolves during a fall killing period this year, ignoring recommendations from anadvisory panelof biologists.

The scientists from the state’s Department of Natural Resources said the board should impose a limit of hunting 130 wolves based on concerns about a state-sanctioned hunt in February. During that four-day hunting and trapping season, Wisconsin hunters killed 218 gray wolves despite officials capping the kill at119. The hunt, which came just a month after gray wolveslost protectionsunder the federal Endangered Species Act, killingan estimated 20% of…