We all deal with some regulation in our home state that's ridiculous. Have you ever done anything to get something changed? I have not. I think that's gonna change. I'm gonna start this year.

Been trying to get Sunday hunting here in Maine for years.

1. Submitted CC resolution to change trap tag law from name/address to choice of name/address or DNR Customer ID #. Went through the process and became law.

2. Submitted CC resolution to change ice fishing shanty law from displaying name/address when not in use to choice of name/address or DNR Customer ID #. Went through the process and became law.

3. Submitted CC resolution to change voluntary trapper ed to mandatory trapper ed in 1990. Went through the process and became law in '92.

4. Submitted CC resolution to change common statewide opener of mink/muskrats to present 3-zone system. Went through the process and that's what we have today.

5. Submitted CC resolution to change law to allow cutting willow with a diameter of 2 1/2" in diameter or smaller for personal use (noncommercial) such as trap stakes. Became law but one must obtain approval from DNR property manager prior to harvesting.

6. Worked with DNR to allow the following: A bodygrip trap is not a submersion set when more than one-half of the trap is located above water after the trap has been fired. Was before the trap fired initially. This would have excluded my suspended bodygrips in mink trails on vertical river banks that fall to the water and submerge once fired.

Still working on the colony trap fiasco . . .

and a big one in case Gary doesn't see this . . .

The Beav was the primary driver to allow nonresident trappers into Wisconsin from states that allow reciprocity. Wisconsin now allows trapping by non-resident U.S. citizens from those states that allow Wisconsin residents to purchase non-resident licenses and trap in that state; this includes all states except Hawaii, Minnesota and Washington D.C. A MN resident may trap 7 species of furbearers on their own property they own here in WI, but that list does not include fisher or bobcat.

I have presented to the county a 2A resolution it really didn't go any where once Lafayette county passed it Green county board of supervisors was sure anything they did was a bad idea, that was basically how they worked at the time.

I got trapping re-opened on some public property along the river here , I showed up to enough meeting I got myself on committee overseeing public safety in town matters as well.
that was 8 years ago.
so my writing is in a bunch of local ordinance.
and for every 1 passed , I bet I help stop 5 requests for a overly restrictive ordnance that doesn't belong here.

I have submitted and presented one CC resolution to extend racoon season and ground nest predator removal.

Off topic, but does this open the gates for a 330 in 2" of water as long as it falls over after it fires?

I worked on the 3 zone rat thing as did Mike and others. It took a year to go from the old 3 zone to 2 zones and then only a year to go to 1 season statewide. It took 5-6 years to get it back to 3 zones! One needs to start on these changes before we get too old, they can just wait you out.

Bryce

Is it time to push on this some more?

Find out Friday/Saturday.

been trying to add fisher ,otter and black bear to quota its a slow process
fisher they offered like 15 yrs ago and trapping council voted no know we have new bioglist and new dept heads and they say the area has never and doesnt hold fisher
otter some guys have one on license others have zero you cannt trap beaver in rivers without catching them
bears no hunting season so they are afraid if they open it to trapping than they have to have a bear season

Yes. Does not always work, but sometimes it does.

Used to work real hard at it. I'm retired now. Not my future. I'm letting the young guys screw things up now.

What you looking at changing WI Outdoors?

My neighbor asked me to write him a resolution to change the rules about leaving decoys in the water on private ponds. No reason he can leave decoys on shore but can’t on the water. I guess it has been tried in past but failed. Anyone know the issue in past? The DNR already has a definition for private ponds so it would just be adding that exception.

yes I have ,learned the hard way, talk with every DNR, person from bottom to top about our nuisance beaver's law got nowhere for 4 years, then I talk with commissioner [nrc] and he told me to bring it to a NRC meeting had 5 minutes to speak, 2 min, into my time chairperson stop the clock and they started asking me questions, she could not believe that we were killing our beaver and had to throw away the animals, she said along with the other NRC, that this would change, and it did, now I'm working on our turtle reg's,