I would like to offer a response to the letter of Jan. 19 titled “DNR is doing its job on wolf hunts.” The author makes the claim that Melissa Smith, and the plaintiffs in the lawsuit against the DNR, “fails to understand that the agency is mandated by law to hold wolf hunts when wolves are delisted.”
On the contrary. Melissa Smith and the plaintiffs understand this exceptionally well, considering it was their lawsuit that stopped the second wolf season planned for the fall and winter of 2021 and 2022. Smith and the plaintiffs also understand that the Wisconsin DNR oversaw the disastrous February 2021 slaughter that killed at least 218 wolves in less than 72 hours.
It is concerning that so many individuals have placed blind trust in the very agency that allowed this to happen. The agency that continues to ignore peer-reviewed science and dismiss citizens that dare to question their dubious metrics and propaganda. The same agency that held closed-door meetings with anti-wolf organizations and individuals long after the public comment period ended, while subsequently changing the plan to reflect those meetings.
The author of this letter is right about one thing. The DNR is indeed doing their job as they always have. That job is to ignore all, except trophy hunting special interests and big ag lobbying groups. This agency is doing a fantastic job at that, and their bait-and-switch wolf-killing plan is a case in point.
Britt Ricci
Northern Wisconsin organizer, Friends of the Wisconsin Wolf & Wildlife
In response to:
wiwolvesandwildlife.org 
right on!
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Wondefully stated!
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