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Wisconsin Chippewa pushing for night deer hunt
I’m sure that back in the day, Indians had flashlights and guns and went out at night to shine deer and shoot them. What a bunch of BS. When are we going to get a president who will burn these ridiculous treaties that were created in a different era with different cultures and laws. Talk about inequality and unethical. This country is becoming so ass-backwards.
MADISON, Wis. – Wisconsin’s Chippewa tribes tried to persuade a federal judge Tuesday to allow tribal hunters to kill deer after dark, arguing the state has suddenly allowed night wolf hunting and tribal hunters are entitled to similar opportunities.
The commission that oversees the Chippewa’s off-reservation rights last week quietly authorized tribal hunters to take deer at night across northern Wisconsin. The state Department of Natural Resources, which has outlawed night deer hunting out of safety concerns, balked.
A bitter legal battle has ensued between the DNR and the Chippewa. The state agency has asked U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb to rule the state’s prohibition on night deer hunting clearly extends to the tribes. The Chippewa responded Tuesday with a motion asking Crabb to issue a temporary restraining order barring the DNR from enforcing the ban on tribal members. Crabb has set a status conference for Wednesday.
“(The DNR’s) concerns are meritless and discriminatory, and the state’s refusal to consent to the change in tribal laws is therefore unreasonable,” the filing said.
DNR officials had no immediate response.
Treaties the Chippewa signed in the 1800s ceding 22,400 acres across northern Wisconsin to the government guarantees the tribes the right to hunt and fish as they see fit on that land. They’ve been running their own deer hunts in the territory for years.
Two decades ago, the tribes tried to convince Crabb during federal cases clarifying tribal harvest rights that they should be allowed to hunt deer at night. The tribes argued the state allows night fox and coyote hunting, but the judge found shooting deer in the dark with larger bullets and at higher angles presents a serious safety risk.
She ruled the state’s prohibition on the practice extended to tribal hunters. The tribes worked the ban into their off-reservation codes.
Relations between the state and the Chippewa have frayed over the last year. The first problems surfaced this past spring when lawmakers tried to pass a bill loosening mining standards to help a Florida-based company open a giant iron mine south of Lake Superior. The Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa feared the mine would pollute local waters and jeopardize their rice beds.
The bill never passed, but legislators angered the tribes again when they passed a bill establishing Wisconsin’s first organized wolf hunt. The Chippewa consider the wolf a brother and fought fiercely against the hunt. In September, the tribal commission authorized tribal hunters to kill an elk, a species the DNR has been working to re-introduce for nearly 20 years.
Now the tribes want to hunt deer at night.
They say the wolf hunt has changed everything: Since hunters can use large-caliber bullets to kill wolves in the dark, the DNR can no longer argue about using larger bullets to kill deer at night is too dangerous, they say.
The tribal commission and the DNR have been negotiating over night deer hunting for months, according to the filing. At first, agency officials didn’t oppose the idea, but later asked the tribes to hold off for a year to avoid negative publicity. But as things drew to a head, DNR finally raised safety concerns, the filing said.
The tribes countered in the filing that their hunters must meet stringent safety standards to get a night permit, including getting firearms training from their tribe, completing an advanced hunter safety course, shining lights at deer only at the point of kill and identifying a clear field of fire during the day. The safety requirements are tougher than standards DNR sharpshooters must meet before they kill deer at night in areas infected with chronic wasting disease, the tribes added.
Via: Star Tribune
Deer breaks into Michigan home
GEORGETOWN TOWNSHIP, MI — Steve Frody and his family looked out a back window in surprise Thanksgiving morning as they sat eating breakfast and noticed a deer swimming across Cedar Lake, right out the back door.
What happened minutes later, around 10 a.m., would surprise them far more.
Frody heard a splash and then a loud crash.
He walked outside to see glass all around a neighbor’s front door. The large doe had made its way through.
The homeowners were away, so Frody picked up the phone to alert others on the street.
He called Tim Contreras, who lives directly next to the damaged house. Contreras looked through his window and saw what he thought was a dog inside.
“Then it hit me: They don’t have a dog. It’s a deer in that house,” Contreras recalled.
He made it through the neighbor’s broken front door and found the animal walking around. Contreras assessed the scene.
“I thought, ‘What are we going to do?'” he said. “It’s like, ‘Whoa, back up. We don’t want to have that attack us.'”
The deer moved quickly between the kitchen and the living room, which had “beautiful” white carpet and couches, he said.
Stains were on the carpet. Blood was smeared around the door frame and a lamp was knocked onto a couch.
The doe already was wet from swimming across part of Cedar Lake. The house was a mess.
“It looks like a murder scene, it really does,” said Frody’s daughter, Larissa, who stood outside and watched through windows.
Larissa Frody moved around to the backyard as she watched the doe jump, forcing itself against a rear upstairs window. The window, which opened with a crank mechanism, gave way without breaking and the deer escaped onto a deck.
She looked on as the animal leaped down from a height neighbors estimated as about 14 feet. The doe stumbled, then ran directly into the other side of Cedar Lake, in back of the house.
Neighbors watched it swim across, then run into a nearby field, apparently fine.
“It was crazy,” Larissa Frody said.
Ottawa County Sheriff’s deputies arrived not long after and boarded up the front door. They alerted the homeowners to what had happened.
Tim Contreras and his family went back to their dinner preparations. He could only imagine what may have happened if someone had been inside at the time—the fear and chaos that would have resulted.
“If you’re sitting there, watching TV, then … crash.”
Via: mlive
Deer attacks and steels cigarettes
WHITEHOUSE, TEXAS — Joseph Rose and Cole Kellis were leaving their home in Whitehouse on Friday morning when they noticed a deer in their front yard.
Rose approached the deer and he says the deer seemed friendly. But then Kellis and Rose say the deer then charged them and started to attack.
Rose and Kellis ran to Rose’s pick-up truck to try to get away from the wild buck. The deer then “poked” Rose in his ribs, so Rose jumped out of his truck into the back-bed. Rose says he left his driver-side door open and the deer climbed in and took his pack of cigarettes that were sitting in his center console.
The deer starting eating Rose’s smokes, and when Rose tried to get them back, Rose says the deer got more aggressive.
They then had to call Whitehouse police and the Game Warden. When police arrived they had to tase the deer and then Rose says it took more than 5 men to restrain the buck.
KETK spoke to Smith County Game Warden, Dustin Dockery, and he says, “Admire deer from a distance but do not approach them because they can be dangerous.”