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Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?
By Jeremy Swanson

A few years back I saw my first wolf while deer hunting. It was a large and mature Timber, but it may have well of been Sasquatch break dancing in front of me, because I was in complete shock and disbelief. Of course, the subject of my sighting was met with the same skeptical looks and questions I once dished out, but the tracks provided my story substance and proof. (No matter how hard somebody tries to convince you, when you see a wolf in person, there is no mistaking it for a coyote. I promise.) Since that brief encounter I have not seen another wolf in the area where I hunt, but I have seen occasional sign over the years. In other parts of Minnesota however, hunters and farmers are seeing much more then tracks.

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The Minnesota wolf population is currently managed under authority of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Minnesota wolves are classified as threatened under the Federal Endangered Species Act. In the 1950’s the wolf population was fewer then 750, but recent estimations put the number anywhere between 2,200 and 3,500 animals.

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World Record Buck?
By Jeremy Swanson

As I sat at the stop light in lakes country on a busy fall weekend, all I could do was shake my head in disbelief. There idling right next to me was, in my opinion, the stupidest window decal I have ever seen in my life. “Night Time is the Right Time” splayed across the back window of a pickup, and centered underneath that was a silhouetted ten point buck with crosshairs on its vitals. Seriously, that is the honest truth.

I pondered what could ever make advertising poaching socially acceptable to someone, or how anyone could ever take pride in associating with that decal. As I kicked around the idea of calling the T.I.P line on principle, a very sad realization set in. That person’s thought process, ethics, and actions are far more common then we care to admit – this person was just dumb enough to brag about it.

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