Hunting still an option in Michigan’s updated gray wolf plan if species de-listed again

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Updated: Jul. 07, 2022, 12:00 p.m. | Published: Jul. 07, 2022, 10:15 a.m.

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This is a close up image of a gray wolf in autumn. Michigan wildlife regulators kept wolf hunting and trapping in the updated state management plan for the species. (Dreamstime/TNS)TNS

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BySheri McWhirter | smcwhirter@mlive.com

Allowing hunters, trappers, and livestock owners to kill gray wolves remains a part of the play book for Michigan wildlife regulators, should the species ever lose its federal protections again.

Officials with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources this week released theirdraft wolf management plan, updated with the latest scientific research about the federally protected species. The guidelines spell out how state authorities would decide whether hunters ever get a shot to bag one of North America’s apex canine predators in the Upper Peninsula – that is, should wolves ever be de-listed again.

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State officials said there…

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2 thoughts on “Hunting still an option in Michigan’s updated gray wolf plan if species de-listed again

  1. Keep Wisconsin’s crazy slaughterfest front and center as to what happens when a wolf is delisted. It seems to have been forgotten or is being downplayed by the media. There are pictures and video to prove – taken by the killers themselves in complete disregard for F&W quotas and decorum.

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