Michigan To Consider Wolf Hunting Season

I strongly oppose a wolf hunting season because these are living, breathing, intelligent animals with close family ties. They are not a money making product. If ranchers already have permission to shoot any who are preying on their livestock, there is no justification for a general hunting season. There is no over-population of wolves because they will only produce as many offspring as the food supply can handle. This is just another way to give hunters the challenge and thrill of killing an animal that is more intelligent than they are, and a misguided belief that the state can make money from it.

I was born in Michigan and spent most of my life in the state. I'm appalled that some state politicians and DNR wolf hunt supporters are trying to feed the state's deer herd to wolf puppies. Baiting hunters they think are stupid enough not to think it through, because they so many times had actual opportunities ruined by confused emotional arguments. Wolves should not be a game animal. when one random wolf is killed the amount of deer eaten goes up the next season, or the hungry wolves cause other problems. It is inevitable. The herd of wolves will still reproduce unless it is a mere pair and the mate does not find a new mate. Every pup replacing an adult canine eats much more food growing up than the one that was killed. You know this if you have raised any canine puppy. Therefore big herds of wolves are good, very good unless you want many deer eaten per wolf. So is not unnecessarily killing members a pack will just replace with pups, or especially breaking a pack up. Emotional arguments are bad for ecology. Bad for the everything population. A game or solitary/pairing animal adds to the mammal biomass when new young are raised. They will overpopulate and starve en-masse unless their numbers are reduced by either hunting or natural factors, at least some years. Non-cynical supporters' emotions tell them hunting random wolves will reduce their numbers and impact. It does not, it is the whole herd, the wolf pack. You have to manage the number of herds of wolves, if needed. But the better this is done the more likely that - randomly - killing a wolf is a mistake. [Edited for length per the IPR Community Discussion rules.]