Paul A. Smith; Refocusing Effort On Cwd Fight

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While most Wisconsinites focused their energies on the Green Bay Packers playoff game Saturday, 15 state residents rolled up their sleeves in the name of deer herd management and closed out the penultimate meeting of the Chronic Wasting Disease Stakeholder Advisory Group in Fitchburg.

The meeting had a playoff intensity of its own as advisory group members voted on a wide range of proposals and issues developed over the previous seven months of meetings.

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Paul A. Smith; Refocusing Effort On Cwd Fight

When the meeting ended 10 hours later, a majority of the group had rallied behind a set of kinder, gentler regulations designed to get disaffected hunters and landowners back in support of herd reduction efforts.

"If we can't get hunters and landowners working to bring down deer numbers, nothing will work,"...

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