ORIGINAL: Handles
That's a pretty ignorant statement. How many dollars go to the DNR from wolf licenses? I'm pretty sure they care about having a healthy, balanced, huntable population of deer.
I've been hearing a lot over the past few years that in areas such as Tomahawk, Eagle River, St. Germain that the deer aren't in the "big woods" anymore becuase of so many people in town that feed them. Could that be at least partly true?
Ok, they care about deer population, but they want to bring it down to a size that would be very difficult to hunt. Oneida Cty was selling more than 5,000 doe permits, and they want to increase wolf populations (Wolves have no business here.) I don't think deer are being drawn from the woods to the people who feed them. Sure, some deer will keep comming to food sources, but very fewdeer in the woods will flock to towns.