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WAUSAU - The Wisconsin Department
of Natural Resources is evaluating more than 6,000 letters,
e-mails and online comments submitted on a proposal to start
the fall deer hunt a week earlier and extend it to 16 days.
Deer ecologist Keith Warnke
says more than 1,600 people also attended 11 public hearings
regarding the change.
Warnke says hunters generally
do not like starting the season a week earlier but there's
more support for a longer season if a week is tacked onto the
traditional nine-day hunt, which begins the Saturday before
Thanksgiving.
The Natural Resources Board
authorized hearings on a longer season, starting in 2010, as a
new way to control the growth of the whitetail herd.
Warnke says recommendations
will be presented at the board's December meeting in Madison.
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