Actually even if you dont place the food there purposley, and are caught hunting over it, you can be fined. A local Wisconsin farmer was harvesting corn and lost a substantial amount of shelledcorn out of the gravity box and wasfined for baiting over the legal limit. He tried to fight this fine andlost. And the corn was still in his field and he was not hunting at the time.
ORIGINAL: NavyDeerHunter
Yep, Osage Orange, but we used to call the hedge apples when I was a kid.
I think your question is sort of tricky. If I were you, i'd call the local DNR office and ask them. To me baiting would mean you brought something in with you and put it in a specific pile. I would think that you can surely unburry them from the snow with no problem, but it's the putting them in a pile that may seem like baiting. Tricky.