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Newspaper
Country Today
Location
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1981
Page
29
A columnist catalogs anti squirrel devices from tilt tops to baffles and traps while noting personal acceptance of both squirrels and birds. The piece shifts to a neighbor Art whose yard hosts abundant bird life and a squirrel friendly distant feeder, concluding the author values wildlife over perfect feeding control and shares bluebird nest concerns with practical pest guards and location advice.
State wardens arrested 1,854 hunters for various game law violations in the recent deer gun season and seized 1,199 illegal deer. Many deer were taken from hunters for improper tagging or in the wrong district. Minimum fines begin around 1,800, with potential totals over 2.1 million for the illegal deer charge alone. Forfeitures include the deer, and possibly weapons and hunting licenses for one to three years.
In Wisconsin, three Kewaskum hunters aiding wardens tracked a stolen buck through snow in Jackson County. The trail vanished amid heavy snow but was found beneath a pine near a ditch. The deer was returned to the trio, who praised conservation wardens for their work and expertise.
Wisconsin’s nine day deer season produced 42 gun related hunting injuries with two fatalities. District tallies show Northwest reporting four injuries, West Central eleven, North Central eight, Lake Michigan five, Southern two and Southeast two. Notable case involved 16 year old April Robson of Viroqua. a party member’s discharge hit her leg but her wooden prosthetic absorbed the impact.
At 1 30 p m on November 27 Denny J Short 20 of Michigan Racine County was wounded when a fellow hunter fired a .308 rifle at a running buck striking Short s scope and hurling fragments into his face Another accident on November 28 saw David Church 39 of Onalaska wounded in the upper thigh after grabbing a gun and it discharged hitting his thigh Four shooting accidents were reported in the Northwest DNR District with several more in the West Central District The safety program credited with strong results has graduated over 200 000 hunters
Preliminary deer registration figures point toward a record gun-season kill in Wisconsin potentially reaching 160,000. West Central District counts topped 30,000 with 30,864 registered by Monday, while Northwest District may exceed last year’s 25,700 by about 10 percent. Wolves remained unshot and deer seen with strong antlers and fawn crops were noted. Jackson County expected around 10,000 kills combining gun and bow.
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