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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?

Posted by Owen at 2111 hrs
Off-Duty + Politics + Politics - Wisconsin

1. Speaking from experience with less than law-abiding family, there is a third option: some jackass shot the wolf for fun.

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on November 24, 2008 at 2143 hrs
   
   
   

2. Yeah, that could be.

   Posted by Owen on November 24, 2008 at 2221 hrs
   
   
   

3. As a hunter, I feel it is money well spent to investigate this case. Without getting into the whole deer Vs. wolf issue, this is exactly the story that turns non-hunters into anti-hunters. We as hunters need to show to non-hunters that we are law abiding individuals who dont take the law into our own hands. Anti-hunters will never come over to our side, but we need to keep as many non-hunters from joining the ranks of the Anti’s.

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on November 25, 2008 at 0948 hrs
   
   
   

4. The necropsy is not to determine that the wolf was shot, but so we can study its health and how it was living.  They are trying to protect the species.

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on November 25, 2008 at 1130 hrs
   
   
   

5. It could be that some yahoo failed to observe a major rule of hunting—confirm your target before you shoot—and just blasted away at a shape in the underbrush.

   Posted by scott on November 25, 2008 at 1447 hrs
   
   
   

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