Your Gift Is Doubled: The First $500 Becomes $1,000

We just got a $500 match! Thank you, DJ, for your generous match offering. We only need five of you. Five gifts of $100 meets the match and saves bears from torture. Together we can do this fast. We are making a difference. Be One of the Five Friends, Did you see our bear harvest … Continue reading Your Gift Is Doubled: The First $500 Becomes $1,000

Wisconsin Bear Season: The Actual Report

Alaska's bear baiting rule sparked national outrage. Wisconsin allows baiting and hound hunting of bears on public forests every year. A new GLWA report exposes what the DNR's 2026 numbers leave out.

Wisconsin’s Bear Hunt: What the DNR Leaves Out

The DNR calls it adaptive wildlife management. Look past the press release and the bear season is engineered for one thing: hunter success, no matter the cost to the animals.

Bear Hunters Don’t Even Want the Bear Necessities

Speak for Wildlife / GLWA Donate Unbearable Week · In their own words Comments section · September 2026 Bear Hunters Don't Even Wantthe Bear Necessities. By Melissa Smith · Great Lakes Wildlife Alliance 50Research bears the MN DNRsimply asked hunters to spare 1000sOf bears hunters can stilllegally take instead 26Likes on the comment thatsays the … Continue reading Bear Hunters Don’t Even Want the Bear Necessities

Bear Hunters Don’t Even Want the Bear Necessities

Speak for Wildlife / GLWA Donate Unbearable Week · In their own words Comments section · September 2026 Bear Hunters Don't Even Wantthe Bear Necessities. By Melissa Smith · Great Lakes Wildlife Alliance 50Research bears the MN DNRsimply asked hunters to spare 1000sOf bears hunters can stilllegally take instead 26Likes on the comment thatsays the … Continue reading Bear Hunters Don’t Even Want the Bear Necessities

Unbearable Week: Bears Get 7 More Days

Wisconsin's bear season opens September 9 with a record 15,245 licenses. Before a single shot is fired, the hounds are already running and the bait is already down. Speak for Wildlife / GLWA Donate Unbearable Week · Day One Investigation · August 2026 Bears get eight more days.Then Wisconsin opens the largest bear hunt in … Continue reading Unbearable Week: Bears Get 7 More Days

Urgent: Addressing Bear-Dog Heat Exhaustion in Wisconsin

Heat Exhaustion, By Design No pursuit cap. No heat limit. No air quality check. The DNR hasn't responded — tomorrow we go back to the Natural Resources Board. Don P. is matching donations up to $300 tonight. Great Lakes Wildlife Alliance Speak for Wildlife  •  Madison, Wisconsin heat ex·haus·tion noun  •  a risk with no … Continue reading Urgent: Addressing Bear-Dog Heat Exhaustion in Wisconsin

BREAKING! GLWA files ER Petition to the DNR & NRB to Save Bears NOW

Emergency Action: Protect Bears From Being Run in Dangerous Heat and Wildfire Smoke Breaking · July 21, 2026 · Madison, Wisconsin Great Lakes wildlife Alliance Asks Wisconsin DNR to Protect Bears From Being Run in Dangerous Heat and Wildfire Smoke As wildfires spread through Minnesota and smoke blankets our region, the Great Lakes Wildlife Alliance … Continue reading BREAKING! GLWA files ER Petition to the DNR & NRB to Save Bears NOW

You Can Stop Denning. You have to. Update! All Gifts Matched

They Call It Denning Pups pulled from dens. Gasoline, fireworks, explosives. They call it a sport. It ends the moment enough people see it — help us make sure they do. Great Lakes Wildlife Alliance Speak for Wildlife  •  Madison, Wisconsin den·ning noun  •  practiced legally in Wisconsin, right now Locating the dens of coyotes … Continue reading You Can Stop Denning. You have to. Update! All Gifts Matched

Prepare for Wisconsin’s Bear Hounding Season Starting July 1

Bear Hounding Season Starts July 1 | Speak for Wildlife Speak for Wildlife · Action Alert · June 2026 Bear Hounding Season Starts July 1.We Need to Be Ready. In nine days, hundreds of packs of hounds will be turned loose in Wisconsin's wolf country. Here's what's at stake — and what we're doing about … Continue reading Prepare for Wisconsin’s Bear Hounding Season Starting July 1