Governor calls for enhanced game farm fencing, limiting game farm deer movement, and wild deer carcass de-boning before movement of harvested venison.
Deer farmers would have three options for enhanced fencing, movement of live deer from CWD counties would be banned, and hunters would have to bone out carcasses in CWD counties or take carcasses directly to
MADISON, Wis. — Gov. Scott Walker signed a bill Monday lifting Wisconsin’s moratorium on gold and silver mining, reversing his vote from nearly 20 years ago imposing the ban and brushing aside conservationists’ warnings that
The new law allows children of any age to participate in a mentored hunt and allows mentor and student to carry their own weapon.
The chamber approved a bill on a voice vote earlier this week that would remove groundhogs from the state’s protected species list and establish a year-round hunting and trapping season with no bag limits.
The property tax to be eliminated began in 1931 to protect forests after they were devastated by clear cutting. The roughly $90 million a year generated from the tax pays for more than 600 workers
Even though it is sustained entirely by subscribers, Gov. Walker’s proposed budget would end it next February. Governor argues that the state shouldn’t be in the publishing business and that the DNR can reach more
Is Walker’s magazine move a sleight of hand to divert attention from his desire to kill the forest mill tax?
But the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources would be allowed to raise state park admission and camping fees under the two-year spending proposal.
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