If they destroy the the mound no problem if they take a snare down the hole then the work begins.

Pulled this one out of the hole and restaked it took over a hour to open the hole to get a peek at him.

Lots of badgers In Oconto county.

We have badgers around here. Releasing one is not fun.

If we have no open season on Bucky I won't care.

It would raise good funds via a permitting system

Exactly. Why would you want to stir the pot and start a season on the state animal. It’s not like we’re being over run with them. Trophy trapping is what it amounts to.

Do other states not harvest their state animal? Of course they do.

We should never have a problem defending the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation. Everything with a season has fared far better over the long haul. And it was the carrot that kept investment coming back into those species.

nimzy, we have opened up bobcat quite a bit in the last few years. Probably take a pretty big coordinated effort to continue to drive it up as we did loose a pretty influential person within the department. Funny thing is I saw more sign in Winnebago County than in years past. Just looking closer or something else driving it?

The state fish is the musky, should we have a ban on musky fishing?

Coyote is our State animal, why do feelings over facts the badger has no clue it’s the State animal.

Why not a robin season just in case we limit out on morning doves?

Robin soup sweet!

If they start a badger season and we have to pay for a tag or do the lotto thing, I am going to apply and try to learn the White17 paper bag dispatch method. Not to steal anything from the hamburger thread, but can a mcdonalds bag be used? WI badgers arent very pretty, how bout letting trappers pay for extra otter tags if this is a revenue thing. Or a spring muskrat license.

Or a spring beaver hunting season, or the ability to harvest and hold more than three snapping turtles and being able to market them, anything we have a true abundance of..

State beverage is milk. Should we ban dairy farming? How about we stop hunting the state wildlife animal? That'd be the whitetail deer.

Talk about trophies but then raise the level of what they are not interested in harvesting, classic anti thinking right there. LOL

Probably shouldn't have a wolf season then either, I mean not if we can only get one and they're a trophy.

It will be tough to pass this year without all the deer questions on the spring hearing drawing record attendence. Skat, there is likely a question about expanding beaver season on there as well.

We don't have to worry about that one as the department ignored state statue and refused on it this year and the lawsuit will prevent it next year.

Sorry , didn't realize this simple question was going to turn into a anti trapping agenda .

dude a wolf is a "trophy" species. But we should be able to harvest them. Same as a badger. Im just internet spitballing WI game management, thats all.

I don’t do it thereof neither should you, a very narcissistic view for sure.