The collaring project is the pet (no pun meant) project of Van Deelen. At a time of money shortage, they should not be dumping 2.5 million on some dumb pet project.
As for Keith, he has retired, supposedly. But since he' s talking, I would like to know the 15 factors. I bet they all start with s and have 4 letters.
Here is some more good news:
Group Bagging rears it' s ugly head again. BEWARE BOWHUNTERS
Get the word out!!!!
Here' s the actual link:
http://folio.legis.state.wi.us/cgi-b...rowse_Frame_Pg
Introduced Feb 5th. Section 1. 29.324 (1) (b) of the statutes is amended to
read:
" Group deer hunting party" means 2 or more hunters hunting in a group ALL
USING FIREARMS, each of whom holds an individual license to hunt deer.
ALL USING FIREARMS would be stricken from the current definition of a group
deer hunting party.
Sponsors are Represetatives: Gunderson, Suder, J. Wood, Ainsworth, Albers,
Balow, Bies, Friske, Gronemus, Grothman, Hahn, Hines, Olsen, Ott, Owens,
Petrowski, Plouff, Serati, Shilling, Stone, and Van Roy. Co-sponsored by
Senators, Lazich, and Robson. Reffered to Committee on Natural Resources.
I was notified of this bill and here are comments from the person posting
this information:
" AB 26 expands the group bagging authority. Under AB 26, members of a hunting
party that tag deer for others will no longer have to be" in posesion of a
firearm" That not only legalizes group bagging for bowhunting, but encourages
convicted felons, non-hunting spouses, kids, neighbors, etc to buy a license
to tag others deer. This is clearly designed to sell more licenses. With the
drop in license sales and a short DNR budget this will get a lot of support.
There are no restrictions to antlerless only either. The result will be an
increased harvest of bucks, filling the freezers with venison that grew
horns. We must keep some integrity in our hunting community and not whore out
licenses just to raise revenue. If they want to increase license sales they
should add value to the license by increasing the bag limit.