2011 Deer Season Set

From:
Wisconsin Wildlife Management Bimonthly Report
The Natural Resources Board approved the proposed 2011 deer season structure. The season structure map is available on-line at the DNR’s deer internet page: http://dnr.wi.gov/org/land/wildlife/HUNT/DEER/dmu.htm. In 2011, there will be 38 Regular Units, 74 Herd Control Units, and 22 Chronic Wasting  Disease Management Zone (CWD-MZ) Units. With the deer population increasing in parts of northeastern Wisconsin, there are fewer management units designated as ‘buck only’ units. Ten of the 38 Regular Units will be ‘buck only’ this year, as opposed to 18 ‘buck only’ units in 2010. The October 4-day antlerless hunt, formerly held in Herd Control and CWD-MZ Units, will occur in the CWD-MZ only. As in 2010, there will be no Earn-A-Buck (EAB) requirements outside of the CWD-MZ. However, the EAB rules in place within the CWD-MZ will be different in 2011 than in 2010. In the CWDMZ during the 2011 deer seasons, the EAB requirements do not apply to a person’s one
Gun Buck Deer Carcass Tag or to a person’s one Archery Buck Deer Carcass Tag. All subsequent buck deer taken in the CWD-MZ must follow EAB rules that require a hunter to harvest a doe prior to being authorized to shoot a buck. Antlerless permits for Regular Units will go on sale at noon on August 20, 2011 for units outside of the CWD zone. As in the past, there is no fee for
antlerless permits for use in the CWD zone.