Republicans who control the state Senate's sporting heritage committee have voted against confirming four of Democratic Gov.
The committee votes come as the board is preparing to approve a new wolf management plan. The plan does not include a hard population cap, despite hunters and farmers’ demands for a specific numerical limit. The plan instead recommends keeping the population at around 1,000 animals, a number hunters and farmers say is far too high.
The DNR’s current wolf management plan, approved in 1999, caps the number of wolves in the state at 350 animals. The agency estimates as many as 1,200 wolves may roam the state today. Farmers have complained that wolves are decimating their livestock, and hunters have pointed to the 350 number as justification for higher kill quotas during the state’s annual wolf season.
Wisconsin law mandates an annual wolf hunt. But wolves in the lower 48 states are currently on the federal endangered species list, making hunting them illegal and prohibiting farmers from killing nuisance wolves. The state management plan would go into effect if wolves come off the endangered species list and hunting resumes.
The sporting heritage committee’s chairman, Sen. Rob Stafsholt, has introduced a bill that would mandate the DNR include a hard population cap in the plan. The agency’s board is expected to vote on the plan Oct. 25. Stafsholt and the other committee Republicans, Sens. Cory Tomczyk and Mary Felzkowski, grilled Adams, Jennings, Naas, Vandenbrook and Buhr whether they support a hard population cap. Adams, Buhr and Jennings
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