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Mothballed Wolf Management Advisory Council to Reassemble
Thursday , 28, January 2021 DNR, Upper Peninsula, Wolf Hunt Leave a commentOn October 29, 2020, insurrection provocateur Donald Trump ordered the gray wolf delisted from the Endangered Species Act. The Department of the Interior announced the gray wolf successfully recovered and it was time to allow states and tribes to manage wolf populations again. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources, which struggled to protect wolves living […]
Michigan DNR Charges Pickford Man with 125 Wildlife Crimes
Thursday , 21, May 2020 DNR, Uncategorized, Upper Peninsula, Wolf Hunt Leave a commentA 56-year-old man in Chippewa County was arraigned on May 20, 2020 in the 91st District Court with 125 misdemeanor charges. Kurt Johnston Duncan faces fines and jail time for illegally killing wildlife, including wolves and bald eagles. Animals illegally killed include 18 wolves and two bald eagles. Wolves are protected in Michigan through the […]
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel Urges US Fish and Wildlife: Don’t Remove Gray Wolves from the Endangered Species List
Wednesday , 24, July 2019 DNR, Environment, Upper Peninsula, Wolf Hunt Leave a commentAttorney General Dana Nessel submitted a letter to David Bernhardt of the United States Department of the Interior in response to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service’s proposal to remove the gray wolf from the endangered and threatened list on March 15, 2019. AG Nessel’s letter stresses the service’s requirement to follow the law […]
Two Upper Peninsula Wolf Poachers Caught on the Same Day
Friday , 18, January 2019 DNR, Upper Peninsula, Wolf Hunt 1 CommentOn Tuesday, January 15, 2019, conservation officers received confessions from two alleged wolf poachers in the Upper Peninsula counties of Menominee and Ontonagon. Both wolves were fitted with collars so the Michigan DNR could track the wolves’ movements. The poacher from Greenland in Ontonagon County confessed to shooting the wolf on January 14, 2019, after […]