Date of enactment:
2023 Senate Bill 139 Date of publication*:
2023 WISCONSIN ACT
AN ACT to amend 29.185 (1m) of the statutes; relating to: establishing a statewide wolf population goal.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in
senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. 29.185 (1m) of the statutes is amended to
read:
29.185 (1m) DEPARTMENT AUTHORITY. If the wolf is
not listed on the federal endangered list and is not listed
on the state endangered list, the department shall allow
the hunting and trapping of wolves and, shall regulate
such hunting and trapping as provided in this section, and
shall implement a wolf management plan that establishes
a statewide wolf population goal. In regulating wolf
hunting and trapping, the department may limit the num-
ber of wolf hunters and trappers and the number of
wolves that may be taken by issuing wolf harvesting
licenses.
* Section 991.11, WISCONSIN STATUTES: Effective date of acts. “Every act and every portion of an act enacted by the legislature over the governor’s
partial veto which does not expressly prescribe the time when it takes effect shall take effect on the day after its date of publication.”