Janury 13, 2016
From DesMoinesRegister.com
The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is investigating two possible illegal shootings of wolves, both by hunters who had thought the animals were coyotes.
In the last week of December, a deer hunter in Van Buren County shot and killed what he thought was a coyote from about 100 yards away, said Kevin Baskins, DNR spokesman. In November, a hunter in northwest Iowa also shot and killed an animal that he believed to be a coyote.
But upon further inspection, both animals appeared to possibly be wolves or wolf hybrids, ranging between 90 to 100 lbs., Baskins said.