Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Bonus Antlerless Permits Limited

Weekly News Article by the Central Office Wisconsin DNR

“Hunters can expect a season similar to 2008,” says Warnke. “Preliminary indications are that fawn production is about the same as it was last year and remains below the long term average. Indices to fawn production were up in some areas and down in others, but on the whole very similar to last year. Winter severity was moderate and herd growth will vary with varying fawn production. Deer numbers will vary by region and even unit. Units in the far northeast are below population goals and DNR has taken steps to bring deer numbers up in those units. In others, populations remain above goal and herd control seasons are in place for 2009.”

Accordingly, one change hunters in the northern and central forests will notice is many deer management units will be “regular” units in 2009 after many successive seasons of herd control or earn-a-buck. Hunters in DMUs designated as regular units by deer managers, will find limits on the number of antlerless deer hunters will be able to harvest.

And, earn-a-buck, a population management tool that requires hunters to first shoot an antlerless deer before shooting a buck, has been suspended while effective alternatives are considered everywhere except in Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) Management Zone.

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