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Hunting Season Set in CWD Management Zone
Wisconsin Ag Connection - 05/01/2008

Hunters in areas of southern Wisconsin where efforts are underway to control the spread of the Chronic Wasting Disease will have a new season framework under a proposal the Natural Resources Board adopted at its meeting in Madison last week. The season framework must still pass legislative review.

The board approved combining the two previous CWD management zones into a single zone with consistent regulations, season dates and firearm rules across the zone.

Other highlights of the season proposal include establishing interim deer population goals that are 20 percent below the population goals that were in place in 2001 in the affected deer management units; establishment of a season structure that is similar to the rest of the state; allowing use of rifles in the entire combined CWD management zone except for metro units; and a late firearm season, dubbed a 'holiday season,' that provides additional hunting opportunities.

All seasons in the CWD Management Zone would be unlimited Earn-a-Buck with prequalification except during two antlerless only seasons in October and December.

Other regulations adopted but not in effect until 2009 are a prohibition on importing whole cervid (deer, moose and elk) carcasses from areas within other states or provinces where CWD is found into Wisconsin and transporting whole carcasses from Wisconsin's CWD management zone to elsewhere in the state.


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