Bugle Magazine Wolves

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Latest issue from Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation paints a bleak picture for any elk hunting in wolf country. We have had elk reintroduced into Wisconsin ten years ago, the wolf showed up on his own ten years or so before that. The wolf has total protection in Wisconsin, same as the west, and is doing great here, same as the west. I can't say the same for the elk. The wolf was going to be eating deer, and beaver, but they have killed some elk. We have about 100 elk, and a million and a half deer, so you would not think they would be a factor. Between bears, wolves, and the Indian tribe quota that will be part of a harvest, I can't see ever getting a tag in my lifetime here. The wolf has ended up down here in the farm country and urban sprawl around Milwaukee, not just passing through from some reports. A local guy said one was sitting in his backyard, he went out to scare it, and it sat till he started getting close, then walked into the woods. He was told it was probably a coyote, but he claimed to know a coyote, and said this had big paws and long legs, a wolf.