Personally, I would go to the Regional office. Stay away from Local, these guys im sure are friends and back each other up. I would try to find someone in charge and ask him the laws about feeders, not mentioning your problem. Get a clear answer and if you are in the right, show him the pictures of what you saw. If he clarifies the law before you tell him what occured, then he can't add anything on after you tell him what the DNR did. The problem is if you get on the bad side of the local DNR, your screwed either way. Its a bad situation, thats for sure. After that, get the police and newspaper involved and when you go, have copy of the picture on CD and give them to all of them. Newspapers will eat up this stuff if there is photographic proof.