People who bait deer for hunting and feeding deer for recreational viewing in Forest, Oneida and Vilas counties will not be able to do that beginning Monday.
The DNR has banned those activities after the discovery of a Chronic Wasting Disease deer killed at a Three Lakes deer farm last month. The ban will also have an effect on businesses who provide supplies for those activities says DNR section chief Tami Ryan...
".....certainly it will have an effect on businesses that sell bait. or feed and certainly those businesses are not prohibited from selling such product but it would no longer be legal to utilize bait in those three counties...."
Ryan says it doesn't affect bird feeding or squirrel feeders....
".....it doesn't affect bird feeding, squirrel feeders. What is important is if and when it's observed deer are accessing those structures, then those activities need to be discontinued...."
As of January 11, baiting and feeding of deer will be prohibited in 41 of Wisconsin's 72 counties. Ryan says there is no end date set for the ban.
