With the inaugural 2012 Minnesota wolf season now closed in the Northeast, I thought I would give you my impression of how it went, from the wildlife manager’s perspective. 

Although the season has been surrounded with emotion, controversy and rhetoric on all sides, it has been much more routine in “the trenches.”  The Tower Area wildlife staff has registered and done necropsies on about 25 wolves over the past month, pretty much without fanfare. 
 

We have registered thousands ...
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