Todd Richmond

Wisconsin wildlife officials defended their decision not to set a hard cap on the state’s wolf population in a new management plan in front of a Republican-controlled legislative committee saying a firm limit doesn’t reflect the complexities of wolf management.
The DNR’s Randy Johnson told the Senate’s sporting heritage committee that a lack of a hard limit gives the agency more flexibility to manage the species, allows packs to fluctuate and gives the population a better chance at maintaining wolf abundance for years to come.