TAYLOR COUNTY SPORTSMAN’S CLUB-HUNTER NATION FORUM – Hoping to be heard

JUNE 19, 2024 – MATT FREY/THE STAR NEWS

TAYLOR COUNTY SPORTSMAN’S CLUB/HUNTER NATION FORUM

If you’re of the opinion that wolves need to be more tightly managed in Wisconsin and beyond –– which just about every one of the at least 200 in attendance likely was at Tuesday’s predator management forum in Medford –– change is only going to happen through pressure on elected officials who have the ability to make that change.

That was the main message drilled into those in attendance at the forum, which was held at the Simek Recreation Center through the cooperation of the Taylor County Sportsman’s Club and Hunter Nation.

Hunter Nation is an organization that calls itself the united voice of the American hunter and works at the state and national level to develop pro-hunting policy and laws. It is the organization that took legal action to force Wisconsin to hold its last wolf hunt in February of 2021. Hunter Nation founder and president Keith Mark made the trip from Kansas to attend along with the organization’s Wisconsin state director Chris Vaughan.