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Michigan lawmakers on Wednesday are expected to pass a law to keep intact the state’s power to allow wolf hunts, overriding two referendums on the November ballot backed by groups that oppose hunting the once-endangered animal.
The pending move not only is sparking debate over whether a wolf hunt should be held for the second straight year. It also is reviving questions over the extent to which the Republican-controlled Legislature should interfere with issues headed to a statewide vote.
A third wolf attack on hunting dogs within three days in the Upper Peninsula killed a beagle in Chippewa County, a Department of Natural Resources spokeswoman said.
The attack Wednesday brought the week’s total to five hounds since Monday in three counties , and one cow killed days earlier in a fourth county.
This is the first time since records began in 1996 that so many attacks on hounds occurred in such a short period of time in the Upper Peninsula. This is training season for hounds, and many more dogs are in the woods than earlier in the year.
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by John Barnes – Click HERE for original article appearing on MLive.com
Wolf attacks on livestock and hunting hounds escalated this past week in the Upper Peninsula, with reports of three events just days apart.
Two reported attacks occurred on Monday and Wednesday in Schoolcraft and Delta counties, according to Department of Natural Resources spokeswoman Debbie Munson Badini. A nearby resort owner said two hunting dogs were killed in each attack.
Days earlier, over the weekend in Dickinson County, a wolf killed one cow. The landowner also killed the wolf.
In early November, MLive ran a
series of articles about how Michigan’s wolf hunting season came to be
, capped off by an editorial, “Wolf ends don’t justify means.”
Through this series of articles and the editorial MLive accused the Department of Natural Resources of misleading the public about the rationale behind the state’s first limited wolf management hunt – an accusation I can emphatically say is completely off base.
Less than 2% of the 1,200 licensed wolf hunters who took to the woods from November 15 through December 31 were successful in harvesting a wolf in Michigan’s first modern-day wolf hunt. After 23 wolves were taken out of the maximum quota of 43, the season is now closed in all Wolf Management Units.
MUCC is part of the biggest fight against anti-hunters since Proposal G, and we need your club’s help to win it! We’re part of the Citizens for Professional Wildlife Management , which has introduced a citizen-initiated law to protect hunting and fishing rights, help stop Asian carp, and provide free licenses for active military members.
LANSING–The Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) released new statistics from last season’s public wolf hunt – Michigan’s first – which showed that the majority of wolves taken by hunters were likely from problem packs.
The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS)-financed front group Keep Michigan Wolves Protected (KMWP) is suing the State of Michigan to allow out-of-state petition gatherers as the anti-hunting group tries to repeal a law that provides free hunting and fishing licences for active military members and authorizes the bipartisan Natural Resources Commission (NRC) to designate game species and issue fisheries orders using sound science.\
On March 13, the anti-hunting Humane Society of the United States front group Keep Michigan Wolves Protected turned in approximately 230,000 signatures to referendum Public Act 21 of 2013, which protected hunting rights by ensuring that game species are determined by sound science and provides free licenses to military members. If at least 161,000 of their signatures are valid, then it will go on November’s ballot. At the same time, though, the petition drive to protect hunting rights from the anti-hunters is going strong.
Gaylord, MI – When anti-hunters tried to take away the right to hunt bears by attacking bear hunting methods in 1996, the Michigan conservation community banded together to defeat them by passing Proposal G, and a big part of its success was a large donation by the Michigan Bear Hunters Association (MBHA). At their annual convention on March 22 at Treetops Resort in Gaylord, the Michigan Bear Hunters Association once again stepped up financially to defend hunting rights by announcing a $100,000 donation to Citizens for Professional Wildlife Management (CPWM).
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