Gray wolf shot in southeastern Minnesota’s Fillmore County
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On Saturday, Jan. 11, the Minnesota DNR received a TIP that a gray wolf had been illegally shot and killed in southeastern Minnesota’s Fillmore County, several miles north of the Iowa-Minnesota border, according to a DNR incident report.
The report states that the gray wolf was illegally shot by 21-year-old hunter Lucas Heusinkveld, of Spring Valley, who was hunting coyotes in early January. According to Minnesota Court Records’ case information, Heusinkveld was convicted in mid-February of a petty misdemeanor for unlawfully taking a protected wild animal.
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