I don't believe it has anything to do with whitetails..........the DNR's agenda is driven by politics and the biggest proponents for keeping the wolf on the endangered list arerepresentatives that are tree-huggers.....The last time wolves were de-listed a bleeding heart group convinced a judge to over turn the ruling and put them back on the list. The wildlife biologist know they cannot eradicate CWD, it's the WiDNR that has thier head up thier arse and can't see the forest for the trees........I respect the biologist , I have no respect for a politcally driven dept of Natural resources that will not listen to hunters...............As for most DNR officials being sportsmen, I just have to laugh, because most are just weekend warriors that might spend a total of 1 week a year "hunting" whitetails.......To me that does not make a sportsman, at least not in the regard that they should know better than the hunter that spends months out of every year in the woods scouting and hunting.

I mean no disrespect to your studies and I applaud the fact that you are majoring in wildlife biology in school..........however I don't agree with how Wi. DNR counts our wildlife populations, especially wolves or deer.....this has nothing to do with your studies as you have said you are doing it in Mn. So I appologize for coming down on you, but I respectfully disagree with some of your views on wolves.........As I stated in my first post on this thread, I believe there is a place for wolves in our ecosystem.........but it is a very small one and I for the life of me can't figure out why the original goals once met cannot create cause for management, but it seems that those goals where just a ploy to protect the wolves and never was there intent to let management practices be employed.