I’m contemplating putting in for a wolf tag, yet am unable to determine whether or not it will be legal to hunt them in Itasca State Park. The park has all kinds of special regs/restrictions, so I’m not going to just assume that it will be legal. Has anyone out there pinned this down?
I can’t find an answer on the DNR website about it…
I’m gonna assume probably not… However, I’d apply either way since the deadline is nearing and finding out Wolf info hasn’t been very easy for me.
I was told certain zones are off limits to rifle hunting, but I can’t find anything in the written regulations to back this up.
I’m doing my best to be patient since the alternative is to not hunt them at all like our friends in Skonny are fighting right now.
Okay – I got to the bottom of it – after a couple of phone calls I learned that Itasca State Park is NOT open for the wolf season.
As an aside, I hunted this park last year dark-to-dark from opening Saturday until Thursday before I saw a deer. And I’ve hunted there for 26 years, so I kinda have a handle on where the deer generally are.
And, yes, it is an Intensive Harvest area again this year. Wow.
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Okay – I got to the bottom of it – after a couple of phone calls I learned that Itasca State Park is NOT open for the wolf season.
As an aside, I hunted this park last year dark-to-dark from opening Saturday until Thursday before I saw a deer. And I’ve hunted there for 26 years, so I kinda have a handle on where the deer generally are.
And, yes, it is an Intensive Harvest area again this year. Wow.
Sounds pretty normal for the majority of public land in MN and WI. Sad but normal.
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And, yes, it is an Intensive Harvest area again this year. Wow.
I’ve hunted there the last 12 years. 5 of us hunted 3 days last year and saw one deer between us. I think they want the deer out of there so their pine trees can grow.
That’s exactly what one of the park biologists told me a few years ago. They are managing it for “white pine reforestation”.
I’m a sucker for tradition (my family’s been hunting those ridges since the mid 1940’s) so I’ll stick it out.
newspapers said that over 23,000 hunters have applied for a wolf permit. good luck to the successful recipients!!!!
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newspapers said that over 23,000 hunters have applied for a wolf permit. good luck to the successful recipients!!!!
I wonder how many of the 23,000 were actually hunters that applied for the tags? 
They figured this out in many states west of us. The tree huggers were applying for all the tags. My cousin said his neighbors do it all the time so nobody shoots “their” elk.
yea, to bad a guy really wont know. we shall she how successful the real hunters are at year end!
I hear sucess rates are about 1% out west. Considering what I know aboutwolf hunts in Canada I would say this sounds about right.
Really. Wow. If that is the case, they better go to an unlimited tag basis and just close the hunt when the quota is reached. SD did this with the kitty hunts.
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