2 sentenced for killing wolves in Upper Peninsula

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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/michigan/chi-ap-mi-upperpeninsula-wo,1,4076377.story?ctrack=2&cset=true

2 sentenced for killing wolves in Upper Peninsula

 

Associated Press

April 24, 2007, 5:34 PM CDT

IRON MOUNTAIN, Mich. -- Two men have been fined and temporarily denied hunting privileges for killing wolves in the Upper Peninsula.

William Jason Morgan, 28, of Iron Mountain, pleaded guilty this month to shooting a wolf during firearms deer hunting season last fall near Felch in Dickinson County, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources said.

District Judge Michael Kusz ordered Morgan to pay $2,385 in fines, costs and restitution. Morgan lost his hunting privileges through 2010, was placed on six months probation and ordered to participate in the county's tether program for 30 days.

Robert Wudzinski, 70, of Richmond, pleaded guilty in March to shooting a wolf wearing a radio collar last November.

A DNR wildlife biologist was tracking the collar's signals by air when it signaled the wolf had died. Conservation officers located the carcass and investigated the shooting.

Wudzinski pleaded guilty to taking a protected animal. Judge Anders Tingstad ordered him to pay $2,150 in fines, costs and restitution. He was placed on probation for nine months and lost his hunting privileges for the rest of this year.

Although taken off the federal endangered list for the Great Lakes region this year, gray wolves remain on Michigan's endangered list. Killing them is illegal unless they are threatening human life.

The DNR estimates 434 live in the Upper Peninsula.

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Glad they got punished!!

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And we thought me we had the market cornered on rednecks. ;D

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Yankee rednecks..who'd have thunk it?