move elk to Buffalo County!

i could not believe the W-word was not uttered ONCE in this entire article! how could you talk about elk reintroduction in wisconsin, and never mention that wolves ate most of them and that is the main reason why there are so few? WOW. they chalked it up to some minor administrative issues?! hilarious.

maybe it is because if they did mention wolves, that would only make the DNR look even more stupid for transplanting the elk herd into the largest wolf-infested area south of 8?

http://lacrossetribune.com/news/local/article_48878808-7cec-11df-9147-001cc4c03286.html

blatant media bias? or just plain bad journalism? who knows. either way, it stinks.

http://www.jsonline.com/sports/outdoors/program-aims-to-reintroduce-elk-to-other-areas-to-help-herd-grow-7l3smov-137828748.html Here you go for another show of a waste of money. $1.5 million dollars for 150+ elk? Us taxpayers, hunters, and fishermen have spent $10,000 per elk, in addition to what RMEF and others have put into it. Now, they want to move them again because they think the wolves won't prey on them elsewhere. Put a stop to wasteful spending please. Elk will not expand if there are so many predators. Stop spending the money.

Just compare the MI elk success with lack of success in WI. Wolves are the difference.

I have also been against the reintroduction of elk or spending one dime of taxpayer or DNR license money on this reintroduction, primarily because they are stocking food for wolves. When the DNR chipped in to help the RMEF to relocate and helicopter wolves to areas where "these wolves haven't learned how to hunt elk yet", I lost what little respect I had for the biologists. The wolves figured it out immediately - duh. If people want elk that badly, let the RMEF and other private groups fund the entire project and stop paying our DNR with our money to study and manage these elk. There are so many more projects that need money in this state in terms of wildlife, fish stocking, studies, etc. that dumping fruitless money into this project is maddening. The trout stream I fish predominately hadn't been stocked for years because of funding issues, and I can think of countless other projects that would be a better use of our money. Stick the money into CWD vaccine research, or use it to buy easements off of private land, anything but to reintroduce a species that has been gone for decades. Until wolves and bears are controlled, why support a dead-end project?

WISCONSIN DNR: spends ridiculous amounts of money to stop the spread of a disease that will wipe out the deer herd. spends ridiculous amounts of money to reintroduce a species that will wipe out the deer herd.

makes perfect sense if you don't think about it.

Here my question...As far as I understand the DNRS response to CWD has been to kill of the deer herd to a point of just a few deer a square mile. Why then, if you believe that, would you reintroduce another species of animal, that is a potential carrier of CWD? Does this make sense.....???? I do want elk....If you add 25 elk to the herd Ill be dead before a season takes place...please add thousands..

It's a shame the dnr can't come up with 50k for some elk. Cwd. is just a stupid excuse. They spent 30 million on cwd and nothing to show. I have no respect for these people. There should be 500 elk in clam lake by now. DNR should just give Jackson co a try, if it doesn't work oh well they tried. Should have done it 10 years ago. There would be hundreds of elk there.

there must be starving wolves in buffalo county.

"They've just grown steadily since then", Windsor said.

Well, that is a false statement. They grew steadily for about 10 years stopping around 2005. At that time, the ever growing wolf population coupled with some bear losses put a halt to the growth. This is common knowledge and backed up by field reports from Biologist Laine Stowell as well as the fact that the moved about a dozen elk to a "wolf free" zone of the northwoods this past winter. Unfortunately, even the wolf free zone had wolves in it. As a Biologist, she knows better. Just another blatant lie from a DNR staff member.