The Department of Natural Resources says it will work to comply with the order. 2:34 pm, Feb. 11, 2021 ×
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources on Thursday said it will work to comply with a judge s order to hold a wolf hunting and trapping season yet in February. (Photo courtesy of the Wisconsin DNR)
A Wisconsin state court judge has ruled that the state Department of Natural Resources must hold a wolf hunting season yet this winter despite the agency’s objections.
Judge Bennett Brantmeier in Jefferson County court made the ruling from the bench, with no written opinion released as yet.
The ruling came Thursday after a sportsman s group sued to force the hunt, which some hunters and livestock owners say is necessary to quickly cull the state’s wolf population, which stands at about 1,034.
Hunter Nation contends the agency’s decision violates the rights of their roughly 20,000 members in Wisconsin, according to
Luke Hilgemann, the group’s CEO and president.
“Clearly, this comes down to whether or not the administration is going to follow the law, and whether or not they want to have the management of a wild population of wolves that’s growing beyond our stated goal of management,” said Hilgemann.
Hilgemann said they’re suing to force the DNR to immediately resume the wolf hunt in compliance with state law. Under state statute, the DNR is required to hold a single wolf hunting and trapping season from Oct. 15 through February when the animal is not listed as an endangered species.
After years of wage freezes, a union representing 225 UW System trade employees negotiated a 1.81% raise for this year, which ended up being less than the 2% raise their non-union colleagues received.
The seemingly bizarre inversion of what union membership has historically meant for workers highlights the new world under Act 10 and raises questions as to why public employees even bother unionizing any more.
Act 10 severely limited collective bargaining for the majority of public employees and decimated the number of unions through annual recertification votes and other obstacles. But those unions that still exist a decade later are finding ways to survive and even grow their numbers.
Ten years ago, in the aftermath of the Great Recession, a newly elected Gov. Scott Walker and the Republicans who held the majority in the Legislature ushered in a new era of politics in Wisconsin with the passage of Act 10 â decimating public sector labor unions, delivering taxpayers a windfall and forever altering the relationship between government workers and their employers.
Nearly a month s worth of protests peak on March 12, 2011, in Madison with as many as 100,000 people turning out to protest Gov. Scott Walker s collective bargaining law. STEVE APPS, STATE JOURNAL ARCHIVES
The legislation hit with explosive effect, especially in Madison, the seat of state government. Almost overnight, most public employees would be required to pay half of their pension costs and at least 12.6% of their health care premiums. Prohibited from bargaining over benefits or working conditions, their unions would be reduced to negotiating only inflationary wage increases.
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