Article: October hunt seen as solution; Four-day deer session is approved

Madison -- With deer numbers continuing to soar in Wisconsin, the Natural Resources Board took steps Wednesday to cut the population with a more aggressive 2008 hunting season.

The biggest change will be a return to a four-day gun season for antlerless deer in October in large parts of the state.

The season will also include so-called Earn-a-Buck controls in swaths of eastern and western Wisconsin. With Earn-a-Buck, hunters have to kill an antlerless deer before killing a buck.

Despite protests from some hunters, especially bow hunters, and a state bicycle group, the Department of Natural Resources recommended that the seven-member board approve an October hunting season. The board agreed by ...

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