MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A pair of Republican legislators from northern Wisconsin are circulating a bill that would require the state Department of Natural Resources to establish a population goal for wolves in the state in its next management plan. The DNR released a draft of its first new wolf management plan in almost 25 years in November. The plan does not include a specific population goal for the animals. Instead it recommends the DNR, with the help of advisory committees, monitor local populations and decide whether to reduce them, maintain them or allow them to grow. The bill from state Rep. Chanz Green and Sen. Rob Stafsholt requires the agency to include a statewide population goal in the plan.
