BY: HENRY REDMAN – NOVEMBER 29, 2021 7:00 AM

Member of committee guiding wolf policy has been cited for illegal trapping

Gray wolf (photo from Pixabay)

A member of the committee responsible for establishing how wolves will be managed in Wisconsin has twice been cited for violations of state trapping laws, court records show.

Patrick Quaintance, a former warden with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR), is amemberof the Wolf Management Plan Committee (WMPC) — which is working to update the state’s plans for managing its wolf population for the first time since 2007.

Members of the committee are appointed through their membership of groups involved in wolf issues across the state, including hunting groups, thestate’s Native American tribesand conservation groups. Quaintance is on the committee as a member of pro-hunting group Wisconsin Wolf Facts.

In January 2016, Quaintance, who said he was…