Section NR 10.087 - Certification of game(1) REGISTRATION OF CERTAIN ELK, DEER AND BEAR. The department may require that an elk be exhibited and registered at registration stations designated by the department no later than 5:00 p.m. of the day after it was recovered. The department may require that any deer or bear harvested in an area affected by CWD, tuberculosis, or where there are other serious infections disease threats, or area where samples are needed for department research purposes, shall be exhibited and registered at registration stations designated by the department no later than 5:00 p.m. on the third day after it was recovered, or by 5:00 p.m. on the day after the close of the season during which it was recovered, as described in s. NR 10.01(3), whichever is earlier, unless otherwise authorized by the department. No person shall fail to exhibit the carcass of a deer, bear or elk at a registration location specified by the department when required under this subsection.(2) BOBCAT; WOLF. Each person who has killed a bobcat or wolf shall: (a) Exhibit the pelt, separated from the rest of the carcass, to an authorized department representative no later than 7 days after the month of harvest. Persons who intend to have a bobcat or wolf mounted by a taxidermist may exhibit the bobcat or wolf to the department for certification in whole carcass condition without separating the pelt, but shall surrender the skinned carcass to the department within 30 days after certification.(b) Allow inspection of the carcass and pelt, and attachment of a certification seal to the head portion of the pelt of all lawfully taken and possessed bobcat or wolf.(3) OTTER. Each person who has killed an otter shall immediately attach a certification seal to the head portion of the pelt of the otter upon receiving the certification seal from the department.(4) CERTIFICATION VIOLATIONS. No person may:(a) Affix a certification seal to any animal harvested or possessed unlawfully, including an animal for which registration was not submitted in compliance with s. NR 10.086.(b) Affix a certification seal to any animal harvested by a person other than the individual issued the certification seal.(c) Except as necessary to comply with sub. (3), possess a certification seal which has not been lawfully affixed to a pelt, or which has been unlawfully or erroneously obtained. An unaffixed certification seal remains the property of the department and shall be returned immediately.(d) Possess a raw bobcat, otter or wolf pelt after the 7th day of the month following closure of the open season for each species and the respective opening date of the next trapping or hunting season without a certification seal attached and locked to the head of the animal.(e) Transfer, give, trade, sell, or purchase a raw pelt or unskinned carcass of any bobcat, otter, or wolf without a certification seal being attached and locked to the head portion of the pelt.(f) Transport or possess a bobcat or wolf pelt without a certification seal being attached and locked to the head portion of the pelt by the department. This paragraph does not apply to the authorized harvester of the animal.Wis. Admin. Code Department of Natural Resources NR 10.087
Adopted by, CR 20-087: cr. (title), renum. (1), (2) from NR 10.087(1), 10.085(6) (c), cr. (2) (title), (3), (4) (a) to (c), renum. (4) (d) to (f) from NR 10.08(7) (j) to (L) and am. Register August 2021 No. 788, eff. 9-1-21; correction in (4) (a), (b) made under s. 35.17, Stats., Register August 2021 No. 788, eff. 9/1/2021