Wolf shot near Park Rapids last weekendBy: Sarah Smith, Park Rapids Enterprise
A wolf shooting in the Huntersville State Forest in Wadena County has stirred up the local population at a time when Minnesota courts were grappling with a legal challenge to the state’s inaugural wolf hunting/trapping season.
Thursday the Minnesota Court of Appeals refused to stop the wolf season, so 6,000 licenses will be issued by the DNR for the firearms season starting Nov. 3.
A later hunting and trapping season begins Nov. 24. More than 23,000 applied for wolf permits and were chosen out of a lottery.
According to Conservation Officer Sam Hunter of Park Rapids, two men were grouse hunting last Saturday in Huntersville. Both had a pair of German shorthair dogs with them.
One of the men’s dogs came dodging back through the woods, yelping. An adult male wolf weighing 90 pounds was on its tail.
The traumatized hunter waited until he could get a clear shot and killed the wolf, Hunter said.
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