YOUR HELP IS NEEDED NOW, PLEASE PLAN ON ATTENDING THE HEARING LISTED BELOW, THE FUTURE OF YOUR WILD DEER HERD DEPENDS ON IT.

The following groups are receiving this email: Wisconsin Wildlife Federation, Conservation Congress, Wisconsin Bowhunters Association, Whitetails Unlimited, QDMA and the La Crosse County Alliance.

Below is an email that I sent out to all of you in an earlier email giving a brief summary of the status of the DATCP and DNR rulemaking follow-up on the Governor’s Executive Order on the on CWD.

The latest is that the DNR Board did approve their Statement of Scope allowing DNR to develop emergency rules regarding enhanced fencing for white-tail deer farms (not all cervids) and for movement of deer carcasses out of CWD counties for sports hunters. The DNR is now drafting rules, will hold a public hearing on the rules and will be coming back to the DNR Board for Board approval in August or September.

At the DNR Board meeting Mike Riggle, Vice-Chair of the Conservation Congress and five individuals for the Wildlife Federation attended and testified in favor of the DNR staff positions. The game farm interest had many more attendees….

What this email is about is that the DATCP Board will be meeting in Sheboygan on July 24^th with a 1 pm time slot for public appearances. I have attached the public notice of the hearing. I met with DATCP staff last week. THEY EMPHASIZED TO ME THAT SPORTSMEN REALLY NEED TO SHOW UP FOR THIS HEARING AND TESTIFY IN FAVOR OF THE PROPOSED DATCP SCOPE STATEMENT.