RE: WI Legislature Chooses Snowmobilers Over Deer Hunters
All the groups met via teleconference this AM and ALL (Wisconsin Conservation Congress, the Wisconsin Bow Hunters’ Association, the Wisconsin Deer Hunters’ Association, the Wisconsin Wildlife Federation, the Wisconsin Deer Hunters’ Coalition, Whitetails Unlimited, Wisconsin Farm Bureau, Wisconsin County Forests Association, the Wisconsin Chapter of the Wildlife Society and the Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission. ) reccomended not implementing the rules as demanded by Gunderson and Kedzie. Because of the way things were written with dates ect., and the way the legislature objected to the rules it would be impossible to implement the parts of the rule they didn't object too (like the tagging options). Despite what Gunderson and Kedzie say they did force the hand to accept their proposal or nothing. Fine, everyone said nothing. Now it moves onto JCRAR for their concurrance. If they agree with Gunderson (who is on JCRAR) and Kedzie the way this stupid game is setup is there will be no way to get a mid-December hunt N of hwy 8 for at least 2 years, if not forever. Thus the AWSC wins in the end and gets everything they wanted. This is a perfect example of how the legislature stacked the deck against deer hunters.