LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is considering charges in the shooting death of a gray wolf in Calhoun County.
A hunter and a guide thought it was a large coyote as they were hunting coyote, but tests proved it was an endangered gray wolf.
The animal had not been seen that far south in Michigan in around 100 years and the last time a gray wolf was in the Lower Peninsula at all was around ten years ago in northern Michigan.
The DNR says possible charges are in line with their protocol when an endangered species is killed in the state.
Anyone who is hunting should be able to identify the species that they’re hunting, and if there’s any doubt at all, you don’t pull the trigger. PERIOD!