Wisconsin DNR gets thousands of written comments on longer deer hunt
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is evaluating more than 6,000 letters, e-mails and online comments submitted on a proposal to start the fall deer hunt a week earlier and extend it to 16 days.By: Associated Press, Pine Journal
WAUSAU, Wis. — The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is evaluating more than 6,000 letters, e-mails and online comments submitted on a proposal to start the fall deer hunt a week earlier and extend it to 16 days.
Deer ecologist Keith Warnke says more than 1,600 people also attended 11 public hearings regarding the change.
Warnke says hunters generally do not like starting the season a week earlier but there’s more support for a longer season if a week is tacked onto the traditional nine-day hunt, which begins the Saturday before Thanksgiving.
The Natural Resources Board authorized hearings on a longer season, starting in 2010, as a new way to control the growth of the whitetail herd.
Warnke says recommendations will be presented at the board’s December meeting in Madison
Tags: outdoors, hunting, wisconsin, daily updates
More from around the web
RSS Feeds