ROTHSCHILD, WI (WSAU-WAOW) – State and federal lawmakers, along with candidates for office, shared their ideas on wolf management in Rothschild yesterday.
At a roundtable discussion at Schuette Metals, Congressman Tom Tiffany, U.S. Senate Candidate Eric Hovde, and several republican members of the state legislature, met to discuss how wolf attacks are impacting their constituents, and called for more action.
Tiffany introduced a bill to the U.S. House of Representatives to take gray wolves off of the endangered species list, that passed the House, but no decision has been made in the Senate. “As we heard in this roundtable that we had today, there’s estimates that we’re up to 3 or 4,000 wolves, and it is really causing harm to people across Wisconsin. We’re seeing pets taken basically off of people’s steps of their home.”
Hovde also spoke about the need to delist the wolves, and said he supports Tiffany’s bill. He says if he were elected, he would do what he could to get it through the Senate. “And I would sit down with whoever is the next senate leader, and express very strongly that this is something that needs to be moved forward and accomplished. Because it’s been talked about for way too long.”
Senator Tammy Baldwin’s office also weighed in, they said that the senator also supports delisting gray wolves, and has been working to do so since 2016.
As of right now, killing a wolf is illegal, unless it’s in a self-defense situation.
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