LANSING, MI (Michigan Radio)-- Opponents of Michigan’s planned wolf hunt are launching their second petition campaign to stop the hunt.
The group collected enough signatures last winter to put the issue on the ballot in 2014, but the legislature passed a new law circumventing it. The new petition drive is to challenge the second law.
Wayne Pacelle is the president of the Humane Society of the United States. He expects the petition drive will get a boost during the hunt scheduled for this fall.
“I think people will be outraged,” he says. “Not only at the needless killing of the wolves, but at the abuse of power.”
Supporters say a wolf hunt is necessary to reduce the threat to livestock and pets in the Upper Peninsula.
State officials hope to kill 43 wolves in this fall’s hunt. There are fewer than 700 wolves in the U.P.
