How bout that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Michigan has put their Wolf killing plans on hold and going to allow a public vote on the issue in 2014..........Anticipating the wolf hunting law would be suspended, the Legislature this month passed a separate law authorizing the Natural Resources Commission to designate animals as hunting game, including wolves......The advocacy group, Keep Michigan Wolves Protected said Wednesday the group is considering a second referendum on the new law letting the NRC decide game species..............Wow, talk about Wolves being a "political football" in Michigan.............Madness reigns across our nation as it relates to Carnivore protection........As John Laundre said in yesterdays Post on Carnivores, the ultimate predator, Man, continues to seek to eliminate all other of natures meat eaters.............HUMAN HUMILITY HAS LEFT THE ROOM!

MICHIGAN WOLVES 

• Chad Livengood
• Detroit News Lansing Bureau
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Lansing — Animal rights activists are considering putting two questions before voters in 2014 about whether wolf hunting should be legal after the Legislature effectively rendered their first referendum! meaningless.

A planned hunt of gray wolves in the Upper Peninsula has been put on hold — for now — after the law authorizing the harvest was suspended Wednesday pending a statewide vote next year.

The Board of State Canvassers decided Wednesday the group Keep Michigan Wolves Protected turned in more than the minimum 161,305 signatures required to get the issue on the ballot.

The referendum on whether Michigan should allow wolf hunting will be placed before voters in the November 2014 general election, suspending the current statute, state elections director Chris Thomas said.

Anticipating the wolf hunting law would be suspended, the Legislature this month passed a separate law authorizing the Natural Resources Commission to designate animals as hunting game, including wolves.

The campaign director for Keep Michigan Wolves Protected said Wednesday the group is considering a second referendum on the new law letting the NRC decide game species. "It is one of the options that we're considering," said Jill Fritz, state director for the Humane Society of the United States.

A second referendum is possible because lawmakers removed a $1 million appropriation from the bill that would have made it referendum-proof, Fritz said.The new law, she said, "makes an end run around our referendum and silences the voices of so many voters who feel very strongly about protecting wolves from hunting and trapping."

The NRC last week authorized a limited hunt this fall of 43 of the estimated 658 gray wolves roaming the Upper Peninsula in three zones comprising an area around Ironwood in Gogebic County, portions of Baraga, Houghton and Ontonagon counties, and Luce and Mackinac counties.

But the fall hunt is off until the commission can approve a wolf hunt under the new law. The commission first has to get the proposal at its June meeting and then can vote on the matter in July, said Sarah Lapshan, spokeswoman for the Department of Natural Resources.

Hunt supporters say wolves have become a menacing nuisance for farmers whose livestock have been attacked by the predators. Some residents have reported seeing them in their backyards.

Even though the referendum has essentially been upended by the Legislature's new law, it cannot be called off, Thomas said.