10-19-21 wolf hunt lawsuit

A lawsuit filed by a group of wildlife advocates to halt a fall wolf hunt is taking a multi-pronged approach.  Executive director of the Friends of Wisconsin Wolf and Wildlife Melissa Smith says the suit questions whether Natural Resources Board chairman Frederick Prehn, whose term expired in May, should be on the Board in the first place.  Smith says the suit also argues that state statutes don’t give state wildlife officials any leeway to consider population estimates.  The lawsuit comes after the DNR Board set the quota for the fall hunt at 300 animals, disregarding pleas from multiple groups to cancel the season after hunters blew past their kill quota during the spring season.  The DNR later set the quota at 130 wolves.