Michigan Votes Forum

This is ridiculous as usual, lets get some common sense here and get politics out of running our fish and game, the state would know long before 2016 if we have a disease issue in the states deer herd or not, only one more year of no baiting would confirm that.

When are these clowns going to admit they don't know diddly about hunting, deer management, or CWD?  Baiting and feeding doesn't necessarily spread CWD.  Deer are social animals, they are constantly nose to nose in the wild, and nose to tail.    They group up for safety in numbers.  This baiting and feeding ban is all about controlling hunters, not CWD.

Tell your legislature that you oppose the ban even if you don't use those methods.  We hunters are the ones who need to seek safety in numbers from these out of touch, out of control legislators.

This is not a bill to extend the ban on feeding deer. This is a bill to extend the DNR's authority to extend the ban. Again, the Mackinac Center is misleading in describing a bill.

The DNR has the science and the means to do the research needed to determine the risk of CWD spreading in our deer herd. They should have the authority to act on their conclusions, even though they may be unpopular with some, or even most sportsmen and women.

I will not vote for any legislator that supports this bill.  It is not based on science but on politics.  It will cause the starvation of a vast number of our northern deer herd. 

If our northern deer herd depend on supplemental feeding to survive, they are obviously over populated.