Close up image of a gray wolf in winter
A Jefferson County judge says the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources violated the law by not immediately scheduling a wolf hunt when federal protections were removed.
An injunction was issued last week by Jefferson County Judge Bennett Brantmeier.
He ruled the state has to hold a hunt immediately any time the federal protections are lifted during the statutory hunting season that runs from November through February.
Brantmeier’s ruling comes from a lawsuit filed by Kansas-based Hunter Nation.
For now, wolf hunting in Wisconsin has been paused while a Dane County judge considers another suit filed by wildlife advocacy groups last summer.
