Wisconsin Administrative Code › Department of Natural Resources › NR 1-99 - Fish, Game and Enforcement, Forestry and Recreation › Chapter NR 1 - Natural Resources Board Policies › Section NR 1.11 - Wildlife management

Current through June 24, 2024
The natural resources board:
(1) Endorses the concept and principles of
				professional wildlife management, considers scientific findings to be the
				primary foundation of sound wildlife management programs, and supports research
				and surveys necessary to provide the technical information required for
				effective implementation of this policy.
(2) Recognizes that effective policy
				implementation requires the input and support of an informed public; endorses
				an active program to inform people of wildlife resource issues and alternative
				solutions; and will make every reasonable effort to obtain broad public input
				during its decision-making process.
(3) Recognizes the need to strengthen the
				educational efforts of the department relating to hunter competence, standards
				of ethical hunting behavior and respect for landowners rights; educational
				efforts must also be directed toward nonhunters to improve their knowledge and
				understanding of wildlife as a renewable natural resource and of hunting as
				both a method of controlling wildlife populations and as a form of outdoor
				recreation.
(4) Endorses the
				concept of comprehensive wildlife planning whereby actual and potential
				contributions of all functions of the department toward achievement of common
				wildlife management goals and objectives are recognized and, where feasible,
				integrated into operational activities.
(5) Recognizes that regulation of certain
				human activities is an integral and necessary part of wildlife management; that
				a sound legal system which combines equitable laws and judicious law
				enforcement is essential; and that wildlife law enforcement programs which are
				commensurate with other management efforts and contribute toward the
				achievement of common goals and objectives are necessary.
(6) Endorses the development and adoption of
				stronger regulatory measures, including more stringent license requirements, to
				assure an acceptable, minimum standard of hunting performance.
(7) Supports the maintenance of ecological
				diversity and health, and will do everything in its power to protect and
				maintain free-living populations of all species of wildlife currently existing
				in Wisconsin; extirpated species will be reintroduced whenever feasible
				ecologically, economically and socially.
(8) Supports the management of game species
				and habitat with the objective of increasing or maintaining populations to
				provide hunting opportunities.
(9)
				Supports the regulated use of wildlife for human benefits, including hunting
				and trapping where legal harvests do not reduce subsequent population levels of
				these renewable wildlife resources or where population reduction of certain
				species is a deliberate objective.
(10) Supports efforts to foster and promote
				the voluntary conservation of wildlife habitat on private lands and also
				supports the development and maintenance of cooperative programs for wildlife
				management and hunting recreation with landowners and operators of private
				lands.
(11) Recognizes that private
				use of Wisconsin's protected wildlife is appropriate provided that use for
				educational, recreational, scientific or economic purposes does not
				deleteriously affect native or migratory wildlife and identifies the necessity
				of establishing and administering licensing or permit systems to insure proper
				care and handling of protected wildlife when persons are entrusted with their
				care or use.
(12) Strongly
				encourages the use of well trained hunting dogs in the pursuit and retrieval of
				game; that extensive training and field trial competition provide hunting dogs
				which are proficient at finding and retrieving more game; and that the
				department will actively participate in programs which assist and encourage the
				training of hunting dogs including the designation and management of specific
				state controlled lands for trials and training provided this use does not
				conflict with the primary purpose of the property.