Originally Posted by
Murdy
I agree that those were both good decisions (grew up in northern Wisconsin back in the day when every year was one buck limit and 4-person party tag only for does). But wasn't the object in the CWD zones to dramatically reduce the population? And now they decided to try and get it back up? Isn't this inconsistent? I guess I'm asking what the point is in trying to restore the CWD zones after spending years treating it as a free-fire zone.
A lot of people "think" our DNR is run by sound decisions by wildlife managers, but thats not true... Its really run by politicians. During Wisconsin's war on whitetails (cwd) We had a Liberal Democrat in office named Doyle who was working with auto insurance companies to lower the deer population. When hunters would not go along with the plan the disease was used to force it upon them. There were people in the WDNR who were fired for speaking up... And the people Doyle put in charge of making those decisions were not biologists, but instead he put his lawyer in as the head of the DNR and hired other friends to force his rule... Now that we finally got a conservative in office ( Scott Walker ) who is also a hunter and avid outdoorsman, he is leading the change to manage the herd on sound advice from biologists and wildlife experts...
Just yesterday the new Biologist for Jefferson county met with me to look at some of the public land I am very familar with and discuss deer habitat improvement...They would not give a guy like me the time of day when Doyle was in office