This story ran 7/18/2012 on Dane101.com

The state Natural Resources Board voted unanimously to approve the Department of Natural Resource’s proposed emergency wolf hunt rule at its July meeting Tuesday.

The rule, which established a 201-wolf quota for the state and allowed for hunting with up to six dogs over a four-and-a-half month period beginning this October, is an emergency rule that Department Secretary Cathy Stepp has said will be revised and replaced within the next two years, following analysis of data from the first year.

The DNR proposes two primary areas for the hunt, in central and far northern Wisconsin, as well as a broader secondary zone that adds additional hunting grounds in the north (see map, and proposed hunting quota for each zone). The season will run from October 15 to the end of February, and, at four-and-a-half months, is the longest game animal season in the state except for cottontail rabbits…

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