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Trouter is a trout fisherman from Adams County who sometimes fishes for splake and coho in Lake Superior tributaries.
He also has hunted bear, bobcat and deer. Waterfowl hunting is his favorite part of fall.
Although Trouter is a delegate to the Wisconsin Conservation Congress, all of his posts are his own views and he never represents the WCC online.
Trouter is on or was a Conversation Congress member. He will and has posted anything to protect wolves from being hunted. Including the support of the federal government, or 1 leftists Judge, considering them endangered. He also posts yearly on the Adam's county hunting sites. Read below. Look at the dates.. Wolves are good neighbors, no effect on hunting yeah right.
You keep talking about you and your county, this is not a you or your county issue. If that was the case each person or each county should make their own rules and laws. This is a state and even federal issue, just because they haven't effected you or your county doesn't mean there isn't issue.
Tribes manage natural resources like any other government. Not having a season for a species does not mean the species is not managed. There is more to management of a species than conducting a hunt. Many animals in Wisconsin do not have a season. This would include most birds and most amphibians.
Society determines if a species is to be harvested. Case in point: bald eagles. They are a culturally significant animal. Therefore, they are not hunted. They were protected because they were endangered. Now, bald eagle populations have recovered.
Tribes do not hunt wolves for the same reason we do not hunt bald eagles. They are culturally significant animals.
There is no justification for poaching trout, deer, wolves or any other species. Poaching is wrong.
If, at the county level, we lost pet dogs each and every year, if there was a pattern of pet predation, we would have a problem. If years go by, and there is no pet predation by wolves in our county, there is no wolf problem.
The same goes for livestock. At the county level, loss of livestock by wolves is rare. This has been the case for several years.
The deer population in our county continues to grow and it has not been measurably impacted by the wolf population, or any other predation (bobcat, coyote).
Wolf management is not a tribal problem, it is a ecological, biological problem.
Then why will the tribes not allow the wolfs to be managed? Them stonewalling makes it their problem, easy as that.
The number of wolves that needs to be removed is set and they declare rights with no intention of management. When they decide to operate on there our behalf it does become their problem.
Trout, would you be concerned about wolves if a child was killed in your neighborhood? Doesn't seem like it. Wolves have killed humans before. It really doesn't matter that a dog was wolf killed in 2015. The point is it was killed. That's like saying "Well no one was killed falling out of their tree stand since 2015 so don't worry about it" Wolves are a concern to many. I've stuck thousands and thousands of dollars into my dogs over the last 30 years. Any wolf within threatening range of my dog will be shot at and hopefully killed. I'm sure this is the case with many hunters. They seem to have little fear of man.
I can't speak for other areas but I won't go in the woods without firearm for protection in the presqueisle Winchester area. Been followed in the woods by two that were flanking me just inside the trees and howling back and forth as I walked. Also very scary when you're sitting in your ground blind and heear a stick crack and there he is less than 20 yards away staring you down as others have stated they seem to not be afraid of humans or machines even at least around here
Swamp Buck
I guess it's a matter of opinion on this subject. Some people also think shooting deer with a spotlight at night with unlimited tags and spear game fish and can use unlimited fishing lines in the water is ok too! Good neighbors to us. So there are different opinions on how harmless the wolf is.
I would have to assume that Whitetail Deer hunting brings more revenue to these counties than people there so see wolves does. It's a shame to see how the wolves have affected these areas for deer hunting and really sad to see all of the abandon traditional deer camps up North.
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