Deer Hunter Finds Shot Wolf

This is inevitable.

Authorities are trying to determine who shot a female gray wolf that was found dead near Fort McCoy in Monroe County on opening weekend of the Wisconsin gun deer season.

Conservation Warden Matt Modjeski of the state Department of Natural Resources said it wasn’t clear whether the wolf was killed Saturday or Sunday.

The DNR said a deer hunter reported the dead wolf at 2:45 p.m. Sunday in the town of New Lyme east of Cataract, as area known to have a resident wolf population.

Most likely, one of two things happened here.

1) A hunter saw a wolf, felt threatened, and shot the wolf.  Then he or she decided that messing with the DNR regarding an endangered species was too risky and took off.

2) Someone who considers wolf a destructive animal like a local farmer saw the wolf and shot it regardless of any threat. 

Either way, is it really worth the expense of a necropsy to find out that the wolf was shot?