Many people who are reading these posts that hunt/live outside of Wisconsin probably think this is all overreaction. It isn't!!! We have land in the central part of the state and our deer sightings have dropped dramatically in the past couple of years. With that comes a decreased amount of venison in the freezer. We drew a bear tag this year and set up some sites on county land in the central part of the state and had 5 different bear come in. That is a lot of bear. Wolf stories are talked about at every cafe and gas station you go into. Its beginning to get very discouraging going out into the deer woods and consistently seeing NO deer. How does the DNR expect the younger generation to start hunting and keep the tradition alive if there aren't any deer out there to be seen, let alone harvested?!?! Theyve admitted in many articles that the bear population was underestimated dramatically due to a flaw in theyre estimation procedures. Like somebody else said, if they would use common sense instead of "scientific studies and protocol", the DNR could possibly have a more accurate number of wildlife living in particular areas. Something has to change with the WI DNR or WI hunters are going to begin to hunt different states.