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Committee bans night wolf hunting

The Legislature's finance committee has quietly left a provision that would ban night wolf hunting in Gov. Scott Walker's budget.

Wis. committee bans night wolf hunting

The Legislature's finance committee has quietly left a provision that would ban night wolf hunting in Gov. Scott Walker's budget.

State commission approves wolf hunt in Michigan

Michigan now has a wolf hunting season after a board voted Thursday to allow hunters and trappers to kill up to 43 of the animals in selected parts of the state's Upper Peninsula.

Wisconsin wolf population drops slightly

HAYWARD, Wis. - After Wisconsin's inaugural season of wolf hunting and trapping last fall, the state's wolf population has declined only slightly.

Wolf population down after last year's hunting season

 New estimates show Wisconsin's wolf population has stopped growing and may have slightly declined after last fall's inaugural hunt.

Wolf count indicates population has stabilized, declined

MADISON (WITI) — The 2013 Wisconsin wolf count indicates there are a minimum of 809 to 834 wolves in the...

Sheriff's commander shot by hunter out of hospital

A Minnesota sheriff's commander is out of the hospital after he was shot while scouting a turkey-hunting spot in Wisconsin.

Here are the closing Minneapolis Grain Exchange futures

By The Associated Press Spring wheat:

US allows Wis. hunter to import rare rhino trophy

The U.S. is allowing a hunter to bring a slain African rhinoceros back to Wisconsin, the first time American officials have allowed a black rhinoceros hunting trophy to be imported since the animal was ...

U.S. allowing Wisconsin hunter to import rare rhino trophy

The U.S. is allowing a hunter to bring a slain African rhinoceros back to Wisconsin, the first time American officials have allowed a black rhinoceros hunting trophy to be imported since the animal was listed as endangered in 1980.
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