Gun tag goodbye. Now before anyone goes spewing forth the "T Zones have been cut in half" , I DON'T CARE. They do not have a clue how many deer out there and it is obvious by some of the DMUs they have as T zones next fall. Its not going to bother me me one bit to give up my measley 2 days I gun hunt.
<BLOCKQUOTE id=quote<font size=1 face='Verdana, Arial, Helvetica' id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote> Successful antlerless hunt cuts number of zone t units nearly in half for 2002 hunt
MADISON -- Wisconsin deer hunters' efforts to reduce the number of antlerless whitetail deer have resulted in a significant reduction in the number of deer management units likely to fall into the Zone T hunt in 2002 to 45 units, down from 76 in 2001 and 86 in 2000.
"The great efforts hunters made to take antlerless deer during the 2001 Zone T hunts and during the regular seasons resulted in the number of deer management units that meet the criteria for Zone T dropping nearly in half," said Bill Mytton, DNR deer and bear ecologist. "Wisconsin deer hunters have helped us meet our population management goals in many deer management units. In this way, we are able to address issues of deer damage to agriculture and forestry as well as the high car/deer accident rates experienced in some parts of the state.
"I'd like to thank hunters for responding to the need for this kind of selective hunting and for taking on the role of wildlife managers through their hunting practices.
"The primary purpose of the Zone T seasons is to provide additional hunting opportunity, focusing on antlerless deer, at different calendar times of the year. Hopefully, these extra seasons even out the hunting pressure and the effect of things like unusual hunting conditions. Suggestions of moving to a 16-day season and eliminating the Zone T hunts would offer some help in reducing antlerless deer numbers, but experience in other states like Pennsylvania and Michigan, which have longer seasons, show that those states have still needed additional seasons to meet their antlerless quotas."
Hunters and wildlife watchers across the state can attend meetings in their area this week that will detail their local deer herd status following the 2001 hunt including the likelihood of a local deer management units (DMU) being in or out of the 2002 Zone T hunt. Check the DNR Web site for a list of meetings. Zone T unit designation for the 2002 hunt will be discussed by the Natural Resources Board in a future meeting.
2002 Zone T Units include the following DMUs: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 19, 20, 27, 28, 29A, 34, 35, 36, 47, 49B, 51A, 51B, 54C, 59D, 61, 62B, 63A, 63B, 65B, 66, 67A, 67B, 68A, 70A, 70E, 72, 74A, 75C, 75D, 78, 80A, 80B, 81
Wildlife managers do caution, however, that whitetail population swings could put a unit back into the Zone T hunt in future years.
<hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote></font id=quote><font face='Verdana, Arial, Helvetica' size=2 id=quote>Mytton is an idiot. First he says we are unsuccessful due to the weather (don't make me bring the weather thread back up front) then he says it was a success and would personnaly like to thank us.
This whole article is such a re-run it makes me sick. They can keep my $20.00 gun tag and listen to my griping for the rest of the year.
Edited by - drache on 02/21/2002 13:53:34