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Newspaper
Country Today
Location
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1982
Page
17
The U S Fish and Wildlife Service with the Wisconsin DNR seeks hunters and trappers to donate bobcat carcasses at a field station during the 1982 season. Carcasses help study age structure and reproduction to improve management of furbearers. Cooperators will receive reports from the study.
The five day closed period between special and regular beaver otter seasons is eliminated for 1982 83. Regular season dates span from late December in each zone through late March 1983. Trappers across zones gain a continuous October or November through March 1983 season with other 1981 82 rules unchanged, per the DNR.
Wisconsin lawmakers add a rule requiring rifles shotguns and handguns used in the first deer hunt to be completely enclosed in a purpose made carrying case. The firearm must be fully contained with no barrel or stock exposed and secured by zipper snap buckle or other fastener.
The African bees that sparked hysteria are shrinking in ferocity as they interbreed with European honey bees. Entomologist Jim Smith notes hybrids move north, yet cold weather will limit their spread beyond Texas, with arrival in the U.S. projected around 1990.
A DNA study of Wisconsin red fox harvest from 1975 to 1978 finds a stable population could develop over a decade if annual harvest is cut about 45 percent and seasons are staggered. The report by Charles Pils Mark Martin and Eugene Lange notes disease aside price-driven harvest pressure drives declines, proposes separate trapping and hunting seasons and a fox only trapping license to improve data.
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