DELIST GRAY WOLF. THEY HAVE RECOVERED by Lane Ruhland

Deer hunting in Wisconsin is in jeopardy. Anti-wolf hunting advocates, and their organizations, time and again have convinced activist judges in California and Washington D.C. to keep the wolf on the Endangered Species list. They have thwarted any efforts to responsibly manage the wolf population in Wisconsin and our deer population is suffering as a result.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently asked an appeals court to return to a Trump-era rule which would delist the gray wolf. But that does not mean Wisconsin will see a wolf hunt. First, the appeals court must agree over the objection of groups like the Sierra Club, Humane Society and the Center of Biological Diversity – the very groups the judge sided with in the first place. Then, if the judge decides to side with the Service, there will likely be another lawsuit filed in another court to relist the wolf. Finally, if a court agrees to delist the wolf Wisconsin must rely on its DNR to actually implement the wolf hunt – something some would see as nearly impossible given its reluctance to do so in the past.