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SF 1543 Senate Long Description

Providing for the management of gray (timber) wolves; imposing a criminal penalty for violating game and fish laws relating to wolves and setting the restitution value; authorizing the destruction of gray wolves in defense of human life, livestock or dogs, specifying certain evidence and reporting requirements; authorizing the harassment of gray wolves under certain conditions; requiring the commissioner of natural resources (DNR) to investigate reports of the taking of gray wolves and to produce monthly reports of investigative activities, requiring livestock best management practices recommendations under certain conditions; prohibiting an open season on gray wolves and the release of wolf-dog hybrids or captive gray wolves without a permit from the commissioner; prohibiting the violation of federal laws relating to wolves; authorizing the commissioner to adopt implementation and enforcement rules and requiring commissioner adoption of a gray wolf management plan, requiring a report to the legislature on the plan by a certain date; specifying certain term change instructions to the revisor of statutes (mk)