DNR?role questioned

To the Journal editor:

We keep hearing the same stories about wolves, how great they are for the ecosystem. Bull. All these wolves have brought us in “grief.” Our farmers have been given another problem as if weather is not bad enough. Cattle are being eaten alive by these packs of vicious animals. People can’t walk their pets without fear of attacks.

Where are our deer and small game? Since the wolves were brought in, they are gone. Never have we had this many predators and hardly no prey. If these animals had plenty of deer, moose, elk, etc., they would shy away from people. Now hungry for food they move in on us, before it’s too late we have to get some sense into this nonsense

Let the Michigan Department of Natural Resources try to control this mess. There have recently been two different wolf attacks on people in Wisconsin. It finally looks like the feds and DNR may do something and it’s about time. Thirty-five years go our snowshoe hare population plummeted. The DNR said it was a low cycle.

It takes place every six years. I’ve been waiting for this cycle. I must have misunderstood. It must have been every 60 years. After 35 years there’s no cycle in sight yet. Could it be predation?

Oh yes. The DNR have brought in martens, fishers, wolves and maybe cougars. When I was young, the DNR motto was protect and preserve our natural resources. Now it seems to be destroy your resource with predators.

The same group did nothing as the sea lamprey destroyed our great lakes fishery. Now we are faced with cormorants. It’s time for an open season on them but our fed and DNR do nothing as usual. They live up to their other motto which is do nothing right.

When I talk to other hunters and ask about their hunts, it’s the same answer. There’s nothing left. I agree. When we spend days in the woods, all we see is one squirrel and six coyotes. They are right.

Now here’s a response. Hunters answer for the grouse season. How many? Hunter #1, one-two grouse. Hunter #2, no grouse in two years hunting. Hunter #3, six. Hunter #4, 1.

Yet the DNR told us it’d be a good year. It’s time for them to get some biologists out in the field and find a solution to this mess.

Bob Johnson

Negaunee