Dec. 23–Wisconsin’s wolf hunting and trapping season will end at 5 p.m. Monday when the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources closes the last remaining zone open to wolf harvest.
Wolf Harvest Zone 3 is the sixth and last wolf harvest zone to be closed this season, according to a DNR news release.
Zone 3 is in the northwest part of the state and includes portions of Burnett, Washburn, Rusk and Taylor counties.
The other regions of the state had already been closed to wolf hunting and trapping, when quotas were met.
The wolf hunting season in Zone 3 began slowly, but hunters neared the DNR’s quota over the weekend, harvesting 12 wolves Friday and Saturday.
“We felt it was important to close the season at this point given the renewed pace of harvest and hunter success,” Kurt Thiede, DNR Land Division Administrator, said in a statement.
The state wolf harvest quota for Zone 3 was set at 71 wolves and the closure process was initiated when wolf 64 was harvested on Dec. 21.
For more information, visit dnr.wi.gov and search keyword “wolf.”