Section NR 13.44 - Modifications to administrative code relating to bear hunting(1) BEAR SEASON. The tribal bear hunting season shall begin on the day after Labor Day and continue through October 31. Both bait and dogs may be used.(2) TRIBAL BEAR QUOTA. The tribal bear quotas for each black bear hunting zone established in s. NR 10.30, located in part or whole within the ceded lands territory shall be based upon the following: (a)Tribal request and past performance. Tribal bear quotas shall be established based on requests from the Chippewa bands submitted to the department by June 15, the tribe's past harvest performance and may not exceed the maximum limit specified in par. (b).(b)Maximum bear harvest limit. The maximum tribal harvest limit shall be calculated according to the following formula: The bear harvest quota, as calculated under s. NR 10.102(1), x% public land acreage (including forest crop land and managed forest land open to public hunting) x 50%.
(3) BEAR HUNTING PERMITS. (a) The department shall issue to treaty rights participants bear harvest permits in an amount sufficient to harvest the tribal quota established in sub. (2) for each black bear hunting zone. The number of permits for each black bear hunting zone shall be determined by using tribal hunter success rate data.(b) No treaty rights participant may kill a bear unless in possession of a valid permit and carcass tag at the point of kill. Permits shall be valid only in the designated black bear hunting zone.(c) The department shall issue metal carcass tags and bear harvest permits to treaty rights participants upon presentation of the tribal photo identification card. No more than one metal carcass tag may be issued to a participant at a time. An additional metal carcass may be issued to a treaty rights participant upon registration, as provided in s. NR 13.30(2) (o), of a bear tagged with the bear carcass tag previously issued.(d) Each permit is valid for one bear and expires upon the harvest of a bear. No more than one bear harvest permit may be issued to or possessed by a treaty rights participant at any time.(e) Each bear harvest permit shall have a number corresponding to the number found on the carcass tag issued to a treaty rights participant.(f) Each treaty rights participant shall possess a tribal photo identification card while hunting bear.(g) Dog use restriction. Dogs may be used to hunt bear during the open seasons provided in this section but no more than 6 dogs in a single pack may be used to pursue a bear regardless of the dog ownership.Wis. Admin. Code Department of Natural Resources NR 13.44
Cr. Register, February, 1990, No. 410, eff. 3-1-90.