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** FILE ** A gray wolf peers from beneath cover, July 16, 2004, at the Wildlife Science Center in Forest Lake, Minn. The Bush administration is working on a new plan for removing Endangered Species Act protections for thriving populations of gray wolves in the Great Lakes and Northern Rockies after deciding not to fight a federal court ruling that found the old plan illegal. Assistant Interior Secretary Craig Manson, in a statement released Tuesday,Dec. 20, 2005, said he continued to believe the old plan was

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** FILE ** A gray wolf peers from beneath cover, July 16, 2004, at the Wildlife Science Center in Forest Lake, Minn. The Bush administration is working on a new plan for removing Endangered Species Act protections for thriving populations of gray wolves in the Great Lakes and Northern Rockies after deciding not to fight a federal court ruling that found the old plan illegal. Assistant Interior Secretary Craig Manson, in a statement released Tuesday,Dec. 20, 2005, said he continued to believe the old plan was "biologically and legally sound" _ but the Department of the Interior would be issuing a new proposal "as early as possible in 2006." (AP Photo/Dawn Villella, File)

Wis. man sentenced in UP wolf poaching

December 29, 2009 10:45 AM

CRYSTAL FALLS, Mich. (AP) - A Wisconsin man who poached a wolf in Michigan's Upper Peninsula must pay more than $2,500 in fines and perform 20 days community service.

Judge C. Joseph Schwedler on Monday also sentenced 37-year-old Stephen Popp Jr. of Green Bay to six months' probation and banned him from hunting for two years.

WLUC-TV says Popp's community service will be performed in Green Bay in lieu of serving 10 days in jail.

Popp pleaded guilty last month to misdemeanor charges of killing an endangered species and hunting without a license. Wolves are a federally protected species in Michigan and cannot be killed except in defense of human life.

Conservation officers with the state Department of Natural Resources found the wolf Nov. 17 at the edge of a field south of Iron River.