WDNR To Save Money, Say What

From the Green Bay Press.

"Bear's death ends study of bear movement

By Jeff Starck • Gannett Wisconsin Media • December 15, 2010

WAUSAU — The Department of Natural Resources began tracking the migration of as many as 36,000 black bears in Wisconsin in 2008."
Bear's death ends study of bear movement | greenbaypressgazette.com | Green Bay Press Gazette

From the headline can we say the DNR will stop the study of black bear migration? The WDNR will save on their budget? No more study of black bear? Scott Walker isn't even in office and the DNR is cutting back on programs?

One of those bears became one of the stars of doctoral student Karl Malcom's five-year project studying bear movements.

That project came to an end on Sept. 8, however, when a poacher killed the sow, leaving her four cubs without a mother and research at a standstill.

Malcom and the DNR will continue tracking the other 28 bears in the student's population base. But they also will wonder what happens to those four cubs — which they can't track without their mother's radio collar.

First, holy cow, a student with a five year program? Second, so they were, are tracking 36000 bears in Wisconsin? Wait, they're only tracking 28, well now 27. I'm getting mixed up on how many black bears are in Wisconsin? Can somebody give me some accurate numbers? Bottom line the program is not dead from one poached bear.

I'm not sure if journalists today need to go back to school, think about what they write or are just writing from their soft fuzzy liberal slant? Remember don't believe everything you read from the headline or from the articles in the MSM.