Commission May Vote On Michigan Deer Baiting Ban
LANSING (AP) - Michigan's wildlife policymakers might remove a ban on baiting and feeding whitetail deer in much of the state's Lower Peninsula. The plan could come up for a vote Thursday afternoon at a Natural Resources Commission meeting.
Baiting and feeding have been banned in the Lower Peninsula since August 2008, when a deer with chronic wasting disease was found at a captive breeding farm in Kent County. No other cases have been reported.
The new plan would allow baiting and feeding with limits in the Lower Peninsula except for a section of northeastern Michigan where bovine tuberculosis remains a problem.
Policies that allow limited feeding by hunters in the Upper Peninsula would continue. The plan also would allow people to feed deer for recreational viewing except in the bovine TB zone.
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