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CONSERVATION CONGRESS MEETINGS ON MONDAY NIGHT
Friday, April 8th, 2005 -- 2:06 pm
Posted by Riley Hebert-News Director
The Wisconsin Conservation Congress will hold its spring hearings Monday night. The meeting will be held in every county and feature some interesting issues.
One question that has gotten plenty of coverage concerns cats. Those in attendance will be asked if free-roaming cats should be listed as an unprotected species. If they were, anyone with a small game license would be able to shoot them. Opponents say the idea of a “cat hunting” is silly; proponents say it wouldn’t be “cat hunting” as much as controlling a pest that kills up to 139-million songbirds a year.
The Congress will also ask if people favor lowering the hunting age from 12 to 10 years of age; if the public would support establishing a new deer season framework aimed at elimintating the current Zone T and Earn-a-Buck hunts.
Locally, the Congress will ask if the daily panfish limit on Lake Arbutus be lowered to 10. With adequate support, a DNR-proposed rule change becomes law April 1, 2006.
Here in Clark County, the meeting will begin at 7 p.m. at the Greenwood High School cafetorium.
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