Legislative Session number- 87

Bill Name: SF1943

2E Relating to natural resources; revising the department of natural resources
(DNR) mission; allowing harvest from infested waters for certain fish; modifying
bear stand requirements; allowing anterless deer taking without lottery
application; restricting firing of firearms near livestock; exempting military
personnel and veterans from the firearms safety certificate requirement;
allowing scopes on muzzleloaders; exempting venison donations from food laws and
requiring labeling; modifying beaver removal procedure; regulating body-gripping
traps; authorizing the commissioner to make winter trout seasons and requiring
rulemaking; providing for taking wolf, requiring a wolf hunting or wolf trapping
license; modifying requirements to take and transport wild animals; modifying
restrictions on discharging firearms and bows; authorizing the use of mechanical
or electronic assistance to hold and discharge firearms or bows by physically
disabled; modifying predator control program; modifying deer baiting
restrictions; requiring rulemaking for restitution value for wolves and use of
snares; repealing certain provisions relating to hunting and fishing license
reciprocity with Wisconsin, collection of deer and elk in bovine tuberculosis
zone, fish and turtles from rough fish removal dedication of receipts, waterfowl
hunting on Muskrat Lake, gray wolf hunting penalties, youth deer license
issuance, fishing regulations executive order authority, gray wolves snaring
permit requirement, lakes with unbalanced fish populations; appropriating
money
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