Farm Hunter---I couldn't agree with you more that five to six hundred wolves to the entire state, or northwoods is not a large population. However, as any Wisconsin hunter who actually spends some time out in the woods would tell you, there is a lot more wolves than that in Wisconsin. This DNR that is coming up with these wolf estimates is the same DNR who claims that there are 1.7 million deer in the state. There are people up north who see more wolves than deer during gun deer hunting season. Also, wolves can be found in almost any county in Wisconsin, other than the southeast portion. There isn't a person I know who hunts up north that doesn't see wolves or at the very least, signs of them being around. Just to give you an example of how wrong the DNR can be, all you have to do is look at the deer herd estimation of 1.7 million. Every other form of predicting the herd shows that the herd is drastically being reduced. Deer/vehicle crashes are down over half in the last few years. Hardly anybody sees close to as many deer as they used to, and this years hunting season for most hunters was the worst its been. After the gun season has closed, the DNR is finally admitting that they "may" have overestimated the deer herd. Also, did I mention that they also just realized that the bear population in Wisconsin is over 100% what they had predicted. It's only a matter of time before they realize that they have seriously misjudged the wolf population as well. All of these things hunters could have told them before it was too late, but they refuse to listen to hunters and go instead with their "good old, reliable" ways of estimating herd sizes like the SAK formula.