Wolf Patrol

That was the last recreational hunt for wolves before another judge ordered the animals returned to federal protections. Beginning in 2015, Wolf Patrol began investigating the annual bear hound depredations by wolves that coincide with the start of summer bear hound training season, and we quickly discovered that wolves as well as bears were being... drawn to the estimated thousands of unregistered bear bait sites that are often placed on public lands. This was one of the wolf hunters Wolf Patrol documented in 2014. In Wisconsin, we also documented each year how despite WDNR's establishment of "Wolf Caution Areas" following bear hound depredations, bear hunters continued bear baiting and hound training in the very same areas wolves had only days before killed free roaming bear hounds. In the years leading up to the February 2021 court-ordered recreational wolf slaughter in Wisconsin, we also witnessed the citation by bear hunters and politicians of these preventable hound depredations as the reason it was necessary to again have a wolf hunt in the state.Read More