ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota is taking applications for its upcoming wolf hunting and trapping season.
The state will award 6,000 licenses by lottery for a statewide target harvest of 400 wolves. The statewide bag limit is one wolf.
The early hunting season starts Nov. 3 when the firearms deer season opens. The late hunting-and-trapping season opens Nov. 24. The seasons will close in the state's three wolf zones if the zone's quota is reached.
Lottery winners will be notified after the application period closes Sept. 6. Licenses go on sale by Oct. 15.
Wolves came off the endangered list in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan last January. The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources says the state's wolf population is about 3,000 and has held relatively steady for the past 10 years.
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Online:
Minnesota DNR wolf information: http://www.mndnr.gov/wolves
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press.
Comments (4)
Add commentSweet ... I will have to stop
Sweet ... I will have to stop by Fleet Farm on lunch
Cannot wait until we start reading how many idiots
have shot themselves, or worse, someone else!!
Pd
Do ya think they only sell license's to libbys or what??
P.S. another thing 60 years ago tomorrow the DNR fisheries were introducing democrats.
OFB, introducing democrats?
Those must be the ones you throw away!