WDNR renews push to ban baiting, feeding
By Jim Lee • Gannett Wisconsin Media • December 14, 2008
MADISON — The Department of Natural Resources has aligned with several prominent hunting and conservation groups to seek a ban on deer baiting and feeding in Wisconsin.
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A conference call is set for this week with about 33 representatives of 10 organizations to discuss strategy, said Keith Warnke, DNR deer biologist.
"We have a group of stakeholders forming to promote change to the law that allows baiting and feeding," Warnke said. "They are proposing prohibition statewide."
Any move in that direction will require acquiescence from a politically sensitive Legislature that has turned down the idea in the past, largely in response to pressure from hunters who favor bait.
There has been no indication leaders of the state Senate or Assembly are ready to change existing legislation, enacted in 2003, which limits the DNR's authority to ban baiting to those areas in and around where chronic wasting disease has been found.
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