DNR closes early wolf hunting today in Minnesota's Northeast Zone

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is closing the early wolf hunting season in the Northeast Zone at the end of shooting hours today.
The zone’s harvest target for the season is 37 wolves, and hunters had registered 35 wolves as of 6:30 p.m. Thursday. The early wolf hunt began Saturday.
Wolf hunting will remain open in the state’s Northwest Zone - through Sunday in Series 200 deer permit areas and through Nov. 23 in Series 100 deer permit areas. The harvest target for
the Northwest Zone is 83 wolves; hunters had registered 47 as of 6:30 p.m. Thursday.
Hunters also took three wolves during a two-day hunt in east-central Minnesota earlier this month, for a total of 85 wolves taken so far during the early season.
The late wolf hunting and trapping seasons will run from Nov. 29 to Jan. 31 in all zones, unless the harvest target is reached earlier in any zone, at which point that zone will be closed. The target harvest for the entire 2014-15 season is 250 wolves.
In Wisconsin, the wolf hunt remains open until Feb. 28 or until quotas are reached in two of the six wolf harvest zones, including Zone 3 that covers parts of Douglas, Sawyer, Washburn and Burnett counties. The statewide quota for the season is 150 wolves; hunters and trappers had registered 142 as of Thursday evening.