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Wolf management plan on path to approval despite criticism from many factions

ANN ARBOR, MI (MPRN)— The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is expected to finalize a wolf management plan next month, but a lot of people are unhappy with it.

The gray wolf is a game species in Michigan, but, right now, the wolf is on the endangered species list.

Tom Baird is the Chair of the Natural Resources Commission. He says there's plenty of criticism of the wolf management plan.

“It’ll be very difficult to make everyone happy because there are those who want a very large-scale hunt peninsula-wide in the Upper Peninsula. And there are those who don’t want any hunt at all.”

Hunters want established seasons and limits for wolf hunting for when the wolf is eventually taken off the endangered species list.

Baird says the DNR cannot put together an exact plan because it doesn’t know what the wolf population might be when it’s delisted, if it’s ever delisted.