Spring
Hearings: Sandhill Hunt, Numerous Important Questions
Attend
& Vote Monday, April 10, 2017 at 7 p.m.!
Please attend your Spring Hearing to weigh in on whether Wisconsin should establish a
Sandhill Crane hunt (last proposed in 2015) and
on another 12-14 interesting and important
questions. Attending requires only a small time commitment.
While listening to and providing comments can be important, if you have limited
time, you can go early, fill out the ballot, and leave.
Spring
Hearings take place in every county of the state on Monday, April
10, 2017 at 7 p.m. The entire ballot and list of all county hearing
locations are on the WDNR website: http://dnr.wi.gov/About/WCC/springhearing.html. You can attend the
hearing in any county you wish, but
you can only vote for Wisconsin Conservation Congress delegates in your home
county.
Once again, a proposal to
establish a Sandhill Crane hunt is on the ballot. It is Question #80. For more
information and a thorough analysis of this issue, please see the Wisconsin
Society for Ornithology website: http://wsobirds.org/about-wso/news/402-state-sandhill-crane-hunt-under-consideration-again
An additional 12-14
questions are of importance. These include, in brief, Question #51 (online
voting), #61 (beaver management), #63 (frac sand permit moratorium), #64
(planting more milkweed), #65 (lead reclamation at shooting ranges), #68
(repeal of the iron mining law), #69 (pollution impacts), #70-71 (high capacity
wells), #72 (oppose the Enbridge pipeline expansion), #76 (restore state
funding to state parks), #78 (funding the Stewardship Fund), and #84 (rail
safety measures). Be sure to review the rest of the questions for others that
may be of interest.
Please take time to
attend your hearing and encourage others to do so. The majority of attendees are hunters, fishers, and
trappers, but the hearings have always been open to everyone, so it's important
that other outdoor enthusiasts are heard from as well.