Wildlife conservation and animal protection groups petitioned the U.S. Forest Service today to ban hounding in Wisconsinโs Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest. Hounding is the practice of training and using dogs to hunt and chase down black bears and other wildlife.
For the second year in a row, the deer harvest numbers have been down statewide but up in the Northern Forest Zone. This comes with a โrecord highโ population of 930-950 wolves in Wisconsin.
Please use this letter as a template to express your opposition to the bear hounding and baiting practices that are currently being allowed to take place with very little regulation on our public lands.
A number of environmental groups, including the Endangered Species Coalition, want to keep hunters who use packs of dogs out of public lands in Wisconsin, including the state's national forests.
Friends of the Wisconsin Wolf & Wildlife 