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Article: DNR seeks hunter who killed rare timber wolf
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- December 6, 1996
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Authorities are searching for a deer hunter who killed a timber
wolf, an endangered species, in northeastern Wisconsin, officials
said Thursday.
The wolf was one of 23 throughout the state to be fitted with a
radio transmitter to track its location. It was the first timber
wolf with a collar to be killed during a hunting season since 1984.
The last time a timber wolf without a collar was killed during the
hunting season was in 1992.
The 2-year-old female timber wolf was found curled up next to a
log in Washburn County Monday, after a state Department of Natural
Resources pilot flew over the animal and detected a mortality signal
from her collar, said Adrian Wydeven, a DNR mammalian ...