CNOW for Jan. 20

This week's notices:

• Oppose AB 598 & SB 563: Creating Conditions for Chronic Wasting Disease
• Oppose AB 673 & SB 612: Mandating Fish Stocking Quotas
• Oppose AB 677 & SB 609: Mandating Pheasant Stocking Quotas

Wisconsin Conservation Voters urges you to oppose AB 598 & SB 563, which are before the Assembly today.

We need to do everything we can to limit the spread of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD), a fatal, infectious nervous system disease often associated with farm-raised deer. AB 598 & SB 563 would make changes to Wisconsin law so that farm-raised bison, buffalo, and antelopes could be hunted in the same way as farm-raised deer. Given existing CWD-related concerns with how we manage farm-raised deer, we should not be creating new opportunities for the disease to spread.

Wisconsin Conservation Voters urges you to oppose AB 673 & SB 612, which are before the Assembly today.

To protect the health of the Great Lakes, we need to follow the lead of conservation experts who make decisions based on best practices in science-based management. This is especially true when it comes to introducing legislation that sets specific stocking quotas. AB 673 & SB 612 would invert the ideal process for policy development by creating an arbitrary, legislature-led brook trout stocking quota for Lake Michigan. This would undermine the DNR’s capacity to implement adaptable, science-led lake management approaches that protect the health of the ecosystem.

Wisconsin Conservation Voters urges you to oppose AB 677 & SB 609, which are before the Assembly today.

To protect the health of all species in our state, we need to listen to conservation experts who make decisions based on best practices in science-based management. This is especially true when it comes to introducing legislation that sets specific stocking quotas for any species. AB 677 & SB 609 would invert the ideal process for policy development by creating an arbitrary, legislature-led pheasant stocking quota. This would undermine the DNR’s capacity to implement adaptable, science-led management approaches to ensure that the entire ecosystem is being maintained.

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