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Gray Wolf
The western Great Lakes subpopulation of gray wolves.
There are approximately 2,400 gray wolves (Canis lupus nubilus) now inhabiting the shaded area of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Some dispersal is now occurring to the Dakotas and southern portions of the western Great Lakes states. To the north, Canadian officials estimate there are approximately 5,000 to
10,000 wolves in Ontario.
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January 13, 1998
Sen. LeRoy Stumpf, DFL-Thief River Falls, plans to introduce two bills to control wolves, one giving the state Department of Natural Resources the authority to manage wolves. He is considering several different methods of population management that would involve citizens being able to hunt or trap wolves.
If you have comments to Sen. Stumpf you may send him
E-Mail or
Phone: him at (612) 296-8660
Perhaps we can allow him to see what the people who he is suppose to be working for really want.
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December 17, 1997
State and federal game wardens are looking for two snowmobilers who ran down and maimed a timber wolf Saturday on Birch Lake near Babbitt.
© John Hyde
The injured wolf was discovered, still alive but unable to walk, by other snowmobilers soon after the incident on the frozen lake.
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Ken Schleuter, Babbitt-area conservation officer for the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, was called to the scene late Saturday afternoon. He shot the wolf after it was clear its injuries were too severe to survive.
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``From their tracks it looked like the snowmobilers hit him once but that he hobbled away. Then they circled back and hit him again. It was obvious they were trying to get him,'' Schleuter said.
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``From where they left him, he crawled about another 200 yards. But both his legs were all broken up in several places ... They hit him in the head, too. The worst part is they didn't kill it.
We have a lot of snowmobilers upset about this because it gives them a bad name.''
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How truly sad
It gives them a bad name? How about being upset because it was a ghastly cowardly deed?
I take a little comfort in knowing there is a higher law out there that none of us escape...in time these 2 will be held accountable for their cowardly behavior. That law is cold and hard and perfect it is "an eye for an eye".
Unfortunately these 2 are probably not wise enough to know why they will be punished.
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