Election results from survey takers!

Thank you to all that voted in the 2022 election. Voters selected Governor Tim Walz and Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan who have shown compelling interest in doing what is best for wolf survival in Minnesota. Howling For Wolves looks forward to continuing our work with their administration to steer them toward nonlethal wolf plans that protect wolves for future generations.

Candidate survey results: (click on the name to see full report)

Past votes: 

SENATE in 2022:  Senate File 4062, Senator Ingebrigten’s omnibus environment finance bill (which included a mandatory wolf hunt), was taken up for passage off the Senate floor. The first amendment offered on the floor was Ingebrigtsen’s author’s amendment (numbered the A-54 amendment), which included the removal of the mandatory wolf hunt language along with several other revisions to SF4062. Senator Eichorn then offered the A-57 amendment to the A-54 amendment to delete the removal of the mandatory hunt from Ingebrigtsen’s amendment so that the language would stay in SF4062. After a 40-minute debate, the pro-wolf side prevailed on a bi-partisan vote of 37-28.

Specifically, eight Republicans voted against a mandatory wolf hunt. Three of them had voted with the wolf on this same issue last session, but the other five (in bold text below) are new allies on this specific issue. It’s important to note that some of these Republicans support current statute providing that the DNR may conduct a wolf season, but oppose Eichorn’s concept of a mandatory hunt. Senators Abeler, Chamberlain, Coleman, Housley, Limmer, Nelson, Pratt, and Ruud all voted on the pro-wolf, prevailing side.

Only one DFLer voted in favor of the mandatory hunt—retiring Senator Kent Eken from outside the Moorhead area. He voted the same way last session, as well. Independent Senators Bakk and Tomassoni voted in favor of the mandatory hunt, too.

The legislators listed under “Those who voted in the negative” cast a vote against the automatic wolf hunt.

HOUSE in 2019:

The Minnesota House of Representatives took up an amendment on the floor of the full House that would have removed an automatic wolf hunt from state law. A "Yes" vote is to ban wolf hunting. Here is the roll-call vote.