The study you refering to is by the University WI. They came around my neighborhood asking to set live traps at bait piles. I believe it was done with the approval of the WDNR tho. It would have to be for them start baiting while there was still a ban. We had a thread somewhere in this forum a while back on the subject although I don' t think it had a lot of hits.
Speaking of DUMB tho, have you heard? The DNR themselves have now said they missed the estimated herd size going into the 02 season by around 500,000 deer! [
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