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To monitor the state’s wildlife, the Snapshot Wisconsin project is looking for volunteers and trail cameras to capture bears, deer, badgers and other creatures found in the state’s 72 counties. It’s also started to allow cameras to be placed on public land, which should widen the area that’s covered by the cameras.
The project uses volunteers to help monitor wildlife year-round using trail cameras.
The project has grown from 500 trail cameras when it initially launched in 2016 to more than 1,000 cameras in 26 counties today. So far, 22 million images — from wrestling bears to a bobcat kitten and grouse in a farm field — have been captured.
Two Snapshot Wisconsin volunteers recently captured moose on their trail cameras for the first time, one in Oneida County and the other in Vilas County. Although it’s the first time the program has captured moose on camera, the DNR gets dozens of reports of moose sightings every year, said Kevin Wallenfang, big game ecologist for the department.
“Statewide rollout opens up a whole new realm of questions for looking at different kinds of species in areas from agricultural regions, to forests, to areas with more of a human footprint,” said Ben Zuckerberg, a UW-Madison forest and wildlife ecology professor.
The project hopes to have at least 20 cameras in every county. Volunteers would check cameras at least four times a year and upload images of wildlife to the DNR’s website to be categorized in a database.
The expanded project should allow researchers to track wildlife in a variety of landscapes and settings throughout the year and can provide data that couldn’t be obtained using traditional wildlife survey methods, said Phil Townsend, a UW–Madison professor of forest and wildlife ecology.
“Now we can understand how wildlife populations and behavior change with the seasons and in different types of landscapes that might not previously have been monitored,” Townsend said.
So far, researchers and wildlife officials have used the trail camera data and images to model deer and predator populations and have spotted a fisher farther south than ever reported.
Researchers also can use the images to help track seasonal changes and map estimated wildlife distributions for each season.
The DNR project is supported by UW-Madison, UW-Extension and several other organizations.
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Which is better ? A hunter harvests a deer in a CWD County transports the deer to his or her home in an adjacent CWD County, butchers the deer. Puts all of the carcass, and scraps in the trash to be disposed of.
Or
A hunter harvests a deer in a CWD County. Skins and quarters the deer, leaves the head and spine next to the garbage can in the parking lot of the public land where he was hunting, He couldn't put it in the garbage can, because it was already overflowing with carcasses from the other 15 hunters that were successful.
In a nutshell here is what is going to affect us this fall - DNR rules and regulations specialist Scott Karel tells NewsChannel 7 that aside from taking the carcass to a licensed meat processor or taxidermist, hunters can also de-bone or quarter the carcass within 72 hours before leaving the county of harvest.
WTF is going on in the heads of these people.....
As far as rules regarding butchering and disposal of parts of deer I doubt there is any good rule that would work for everyone (hunters, butchers, dnr, and others). Especially in CWD areas.
