Evidence of how glacially the wheels of government grind forward was made plain in recent days with the release of the Department of Natural Resources' most recent wolf management plan.
Begun in 2019 and intended to update the state's 2001 wolf plan, the most recent missive was eagerly awaited by a varied crowd of stakeholders, not least those most affected by Minnesota's growing gray wolf population, now estimated to number about 2,700.
Professional in tone and substance, the new plan accomplishes at least one of its goals: to document the sociology that surrounds management of Minnesota gray wolves.
