Welcome to the Tudor Dixon podcast. One of Michigan's most lucrative industries is

hunting and fishing, but as some of our key agencies change personnel, the

endangered species seem to be changing to hunters rather than animals.

We have Michigan-based outdoor writer Victor Skinner here to chat about all things hunting.

Victor, welcome to the podcast.

Hi, good to be here to.

So you've, thank you.

You've been working in this industry for years and years and

and we were talking before we got on the air about the wolf population.

That's something that I wanted to talk about because I think that most people don't deal with wolves,

so they don't think about it.

But the environmental groups, or I would say I guess the

animal rights groups are very effective in manipulating the minds of the

average person about the wolf population and I say that because I remember a few years back

when there was a question on the ballot

of whether or not we should be hunting wolves.

And I live in the lower peninsula of Michigan.

In the upper peninsula of Michigan, wolves are a big problem, but I remember these

commercials being on of these like puppies, you know, they would be like, you don't want to kill these

wonderful puppies, how could you do this and it was

really effective because I'm like oh my gosh how could we kill these but tell us a

little bit about what's going on in the upper peninsula with wolves so people truly understand why

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