Yeah those Cheeseheads, they are a tolerant bunch.

Minnesota wolves have been showing up in Wisconsin, where...

The population is rising because of an abundance of public land, a teeming deer population and wolves' own population dynamics. Another factor is a ''fairly tolerant public,'' said Adrian Wydeven, a wolf ecologist.

Back when I was a kid growing up in Duluth our house was on the highway that comes down from Canada along the shore of the lake, and in the winter, every now and then, you could see a station wagon - one of those old woodie wagons - drive by with some stuff written on the doors in French and two big timberwolves strapped on the fenders. There was a bounty in the US on timberwolves, then, but apparently none in Canada, so the Canucks would haul their wolves down to the wolf-shooting office in Duluth and claim they had shot the wolves on the US side of the border, and try to collect the dough.

Now it seems they don't shoot them any more, they just send them to Wisconsin, where they get hugged.

Link: Wisconsin packing wolves in :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Nation