Jerry Davis:
E-registration now law of land in WisconsinJERRY DAVIS For the State Journal Sep 20, 2015 0
The Department of Natural Resources’ electronic registration (e-registration) is now the law in Wisconsin and is being used by all archers, bow and crossbow hunters.
Anyone can log into the system at
http://dnr.wi.gov/topic/hunt/deerharvest.html and get an update of how many and what type of deer have been registered. The numbers will be updated approximately once a week.
The bow archery and crossbow are split into those two groups, so to find how many deer archers registered during the first five days of the season, one needs to examine each group. These two groups are on a continuous pages and scrolling down runs through one section and then the next.
For example, crossbow hunters registered 2,159 deer during the first five days, while archers (not using a crossbow) registered 4,089 deer. All entries are sorted by antlered and antlerless deer, too.
The charts are separated by county and counties are placed in deer management zones, including Central Farmland, Central Forest, Northern Forest, Southern Farmland. Totals for each zone and all zones are shown.
There are now 206 volunteer registration stations, but those registrations are automatically fed into the e-registration system, because that is the only system that exists. Hunters who go to one of the statewide volunteer stations simply use a computer or phone at the station to report their deer kill.
It is important to think of these numbers as deer registered, even though it is possible some deer will be killed but not registered, but that was the case with in-person registration, too.
To not register a deer killed is illegal.
Rather than saying, “the deer kill for the first five days was 6,248,” it is more accurate to say “the deer registered during the first five days was 6,248.”
Of that total, 2,823 were antlered and 3,425 were antlerless deer.
Also, all hunters must register their deer no later than 5 p.m. the day after the animal was killed, so the actual registration totals can lag as much as a day.
Slight adjustments may be made to the data displayed as additional seasons come about. For example, how often these data are updated during the gun deer season is being determined. Also, deer shot during the nine-day gun deer season that are killed using something other than a gun, will still show up as killed during the nine day gun season.
Several counties are split between two deer management zones. The total deer killed in these counties can be determined by adding, for example, totals for Adams County from each of the two management units where Adams is listed.
Wildlife personnel can obtain additional sorts of the data. For example one sort told managers that 68 percent of the registrations the first weekend were done through the Internet and 32 percent by some type of phone system or call.
Managers and spokespersons may obtain specific sorts of data for news releases so the public may hear or see written that a certain number of deer were killed/registered during the nine-day gun deer season, even though some will have been killed with archery equipment and others by some type of shotgun, rifle, handgun or muzzleloading gun.
Because this is the first year of required e-registration, some comparisons will not be able to be made with past seasons.
One example, which is a new rule, is that all deer killed, even during the gun deer season, must be e-registered no later than 5 p.m. the day after the kill.
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