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

Welcome fellow hunters and outdoor enthusiasts to the Hunters 4 Hunters website. We will be adding a few new features to our page offering both knowledgeable information and guidance in making decisions affecting our way of life in the outdoors. First, we are fortunate to welcome Randall Tlachac as a guest columnist. Randall brings a rare combination of scientific rigor, institutional experience, and five decades of boots-on-the-ground hunting knowledge that few wildlife poli

Photo credit: Jason Foesch via H4H Wolf Watch FB Group To fully understand the complexity of Gray Wolf protection we need to look at the worldwide population and management techniques used in different countries. The global gray wolf population is estimated to be 300,000 and growing. Once abundant over much of North America and Eurasia, the gray wolf inhibits a smaller portion of its former range because of widespread destruction of its habitat, human encroachment of its habi

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

New updates on Federal and Minnesota Legislation This photo is from our Wolf Watch Facebook group, courtesy of Marty Schubitzke, there were two wolves chasing a deer through this yard. Hey H4H Team! Here are some Legislative updates for you. 1) Senator Nathan Wesenberg is introducing a bill to increase funding for wolf predation on livestock and to also have pets included for reimbursement when pets are killed by wolves. 2) Senator Nathan Wesenberg is looking at and conside