A Guest Column on Transparency and Accountability The Minnesota DNR’s July 30 response to a May data request on wolf-allocation funds exposes a pattern of evasion, contradiction, and mismanagement that should alarm every hunter, taxpayer, and wildlife advocate. When asked for research reports, phase reviews, and expenditures under Minnesota Statutes § 97A.075 for FY25–26, the agency claimed the final 2024–2025 wolf survey was “still being finalized.” That is false. The comple

Minnesota Hunters Deserve Answers on Wolf Fund Spending A Guest Column on Transparency and Accountability Every time a Minnesota deer hunter buys their license, fifty cents goes into a special account. It's not much per person—but across 500,000 hunters annually, that adds up to roughly $250,000 a year. That money sits in what the Minnesota DNR calls the "Wolf Allocation Fund", supposedly earmarked for wolf management, research, and monitoring. Here's the problem: most of us

Meeting Minutes – Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, USDA APHIS and Hunters for Hunters, (H4H), a Minnesota-based hunter advocacy group.

Photo Courtesy of Our Wolf Watch FB Group, credit Nolan Skuse Here are some of the highlights of this 67-page, 9-year plan, “word for word”. My personal comments are bolded. The plan can be viewed at https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/wolves/wolf-plan.html “Today, wolves are distributed across half of the state in numbers of 2,700, well above the endangered species act recovery plan goals of 1.250-1400.” Twice the Recovery Goal! “Some readers might be surprised to find that this pl