Michigan far, far away, joins the wolf hunt..!!!

[lastmk8]

Michigan Governor Rick Snyder signs the bill, based on guess what?,.... scientific data and real numbers, not TV commercials.  Michigan joins the very few states to hunt wolves!!! Another bill Snyder signed Wednesday guarantees a right to hunt and fish in Michigan.


http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/05/08/michigan-governor-approves-bill-that-clears-way-for-wolf-hunt/

[Jingles]

Lots of folks back in MI will be glad about this, HOWEVER my Mother lives in the upper lower peninsula about 40 miles south of the Mackinaw Bridge and she routinely has a pair of wolves come across her property. Fortunately hasn't lost any live stock yet but they put everything in the barn, or chicken coops at night

[AspenBud]

I don't think it opens a season on them. It allows qualified state agencies to do so without voter interference by way of referendum. It would be like blocking initiatives here.

Don't get me wrong though, I see a wolf season happening out there.

The legislation also opens the door to other types of hunting like dove hunting out there, something was prevented thanks to HSUS and a voter referendum.

[AspenBud]

As I've said here before. Even if wolves are delisted and WDFW opens a season, we would still need to get past voter initiatives. That's arguably a much bigger problem than WDFW and any lack of competence they may or may not have. Michigan just showed how to handle that.

Voters are not wildlife biologists and should not be making wildlife management decisions (ie-the ban on hunting bear and cougar with hounds).

[AspenBud]

At the bottom of that article the following was also written...

"Another bill Snyder signed Wednesday guarantees a right to hunt and fish in Michigan"

We need something like that here as well.

[bearpaw]

go Michigan... 

[lastmk8]

Here now is the article in the Detroit Free Press, a little more information.  We could use some common sense thinking with our elected officials once in a while, maybe even some fish and game folks who worked with the sportsmen every now and again.....

Some of the highlights: 

“I was signing a bill that dealt with sound scientific management principles for game and for fish.”

That bill, which became Public Act 21 of 2013, supersedes legislation passed last year that designated the gray wolf as a game species. Opponents of that law had filed more than 250,000 signatures in the hopes of having the wolf hunt repealed by a vote in the November 2014 election.

The Natural Resources Commission could authorize a wolf hunt at a meeting today in Roscommon. If it does so, the wolf hunt would remain the law under the bill Snyder signed Wednesday, even if the law passed last year is repealed by voters.

http://www.freep.com/article/20130509/NEWS06/305090117/Snyder-says-bill-allowing-wolf-hunt-not-about-wolves

[AspenBud]

Here now is the article in the Detroit Free Press, a little more information.  We could use some common sense thinking with our elected officials once in a while, maybe even some fish and game folks who worked with the sportsmen every now and again.....

Some of the highlights: 

“I was signing a bill that dealt with sound scientific management principles for game and for fish.”

That bill, which became Public Act 21 of 2013, supersedes legislation passed last year that designated the gray wolf as a game species. Opponents of that law had filed more than 250,000 signatures in the hopes of having the wolf hunt repealed by a vote in the November 2014 election.

The Natural Resources Commission could authorize a wolf hunt at a meeting today in Roscommon. If it does so, the wolf hunt would remain the law under the bill Snyder signed Wednesday, even if the law passed last year is repealed by voters.

http://www.freep.com/article/20130509/NEWS06/305090117/Snyder-says-bill-allowing-wolf-hunt-not-about-wolves

The whole culture between the DNR and hunters is different out there. Much less distrust and more working together. Of course that may have a lot to do with the fact that a lot of their DNR's officers are hunters themselves. The midwest still has a hunting culture that we are losing.

HSUS is the problem. Lots of out of state money was coming in from California to try and stop their wolf hunt.

[HUNTINCOUPLE]

Killem all!!!!

[jackmaster]

we will eventually have a wolf season here in washington, might be permit only, i can tell you this that permit will be highly coveted for sure.... i know i will be putting in for one....

[Orion88]

  I will put in also.