Public Hearing ON zone 3 regs

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Good idea, Jason! Remans a usually a great way to go.

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got any of these in a Terova ?

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I wish!

Read in the Post Bulletin that the mn dnr will be having public hearings regarding proposed changes to zone 3.

Topics include point restriction and not allowing cross tagging for bucks. I hope they bring up the topic of combining the seasons in zone 3 to take place starting the weekend before thanksgiving.

They will have an online survey as well as different hearing locations. The Rochester hearing will be at the Laquinta Inn & Suites March 9th 7-9.

Combining both 3A and 3B would be by far the biggest mistake MN could do. There will literally be thousands(if not more) of hunters out of ground to hunt if that were the case.

Here is some more info……….

News Release

News Releases
DNR seeks input on deer hunting, trapping, duck and fall turkey hunting
(Released February 19, 2010)

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) will soon seek citizen input on nearly a dozen different hunting season options.

The first of several public meetings to be held during February and March is scheduled for Feb. 23 in Frontenac. The agency will take public comments on possible changes to Zone 3 deer hunting regulations, youth deer hunting, use of crossbows, fall turkey hunting, the duck season opener and trapping.

“We are addressing a number of topics that will be of great interest to many hunters and trappers this year,” said Steve Merchant, DNR wildlife program manager. “We are very open to comment on all of these proposals and hope our stakeholders can either attend a meeting or give us their comments online.”

Each year, the DNR conducts public meetings across the state to gauge hunter opinions about regulations, seasons and other wildlife management issues. Those who cannot attend the meetings are urged to complete a questionnaire online at http://www.mndnr.gov starting Feb. 23.

Topics to be addressed include:

Furbearer harvest: In an effort to simplify regulations and provide additional opportunity, public comment will be taken on allowing river otter trapping statewide, including in southwest counties where the season is currently closed.

Youth deer season: This four-day, youth-only deer season would be conducted statewide during what’s colloquially known as MEA Weekend, when public school students are given a two-day break on Thursday and Friday so teachers can attend the annual Education Minnesota Professional Conference. Youth would be allowed to take one either-sex deer statewide. Adults would not be allowed to carry a firearm. The early antlerless season would coincide with the youth season in areas where an early antlerless hunt already is scheduled.

Buck cross-tagging: Public comment is being taken on requiring hunters in Zone 3 to tag only bucks that they shoot. Hunters would no longer be allowed to tag bucks for others in their hunting party.

Antler point restriction: In an effort to protect the majority of yearling bucks and encourage the harvest of does. Zone 3 hunters would be restricted to harvesting only bucks with at least four antler points on one side.

Zone 3 season length: If an antler point restriction were enacted, the Zone 3A season would be lengthened to nine days under this proposal.

Crossbows: Public comment is being taken on allowing anyone 55 and older to hunt during the archery season with a crossbow.

Fall turkey hunting: Public comment is being taken on a proposal to expand fall turkey hunting to a single 30-day season. Public comment will also be taken on allowing dogs while hunting fall turkeys.

Duck opener: Public comment is being invited on a possible legislative change that would allow the duck season to open in late September. For example, the 2010 duck season could open on Sept. 25 rather than Oct. 2 if this proposal were carried forward.

Duck shooting hours: Comment is being taken to gauge public support for moving shooting hours for ducks on opening day to one-half hour before sunrise as opposed to the current shooting hours, which begin at 9 a.m. Actual changes would require future legislation.

Other Waterfowl Management Options: Opportunity for public comment on other management options such as moist soil units, additional refuges, controlled hunting areas and split seasons and zones.

Waterfowl feeding and resting area: In addition, some local meetings will include the chance to comment on establishing a migratory waterfowl feeding and resting area at Upper Twin Lake in Freeborn County.

MEETING DATES AND LOCATIONS
Unless noted, the following meetings will be from 7-9 p.m.

Feb. 23: Frontenac Sportsman’s Club, 30301 Territorial Road, Frontenac

Feb. 25: Houston Community Center, 109 West Maple Street, Houston

March 4: Initiative Foundation, 405 First Street Southeast, Little Falls

March 4: Waseca Area Senior Citizen’s Center, 308 State Street N, Waseca

March 9: LaQuinta Inn & Suites, 1625 Broadway, Rochester

March 9: Kilowatt Community Center, 600 Kilowatt Drive, Granite Falls, 6:30- 8:30 p.m.

March 11: DNR Headquarters cafeteria, 500 Lafayette Road, St. Paul

March 16: Spring Lake Town Hall Community Center, 20381 Fairlawn Avenue, Prior Lake

March 16 (6:30-9:30 p.m.): Hinckley-Finlayson High School board room, 201 Main Street, Hinckley

March 17 (6-9 p.m.): Rainy River Community College room H118, International Falls

The location, time and date of meetings in northwest and southwest Minnesota will be announced once meetings are scheduled.

Those who can’t attend the meetings may submit comments via e-mail [email protected] or mail written comments to: Season Comments, DNR Section of Wildlife, 500 Lafayette Road, St. Paul, MN, 55155-4007.

Here is your chance to get your voice heard if you are not happy with the changes being proposed attend one of the meetings and let the DNR know how you feel.

Check out the posts on this subject on GENERAL DISSCUSION FORUM on iDoFishing

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Check out the posts on this subject on GENERAL DISSCUSION FORUM on iDoFishing

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If you can not make it to one of the meetings you can fill out the survey on line.

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Just a reminder that the meeting in Rochester is is tonight if you are there be sure to say HI
I will be the guy in the white and green BWA hat.

Who all was at the meeting last night? What were your thoughts?

It was a JOKE I think , Bottom line they didn’t care about anything we said and they are going to do what THEY want Again thanks for the wasted night MN DNR

Voices fell on plugged ears. I briefly went out to hear what they had to say about the fall turkey regulations. 3 others and my self all asked questions. The DNR rep had no answers to any of them. All he said was, “make sure you write that on your survey”, and then he said “I’m more interested in what’s going on with the Deer regs so let go back in there.” Which was fine with me cause that’s really why I was there too but just another example of our DNR pretending they are listening to us.

so what was the general feeling by the people there? was there support for these proposals or not?

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Who all was at the meeting last night? What were your thoughts?

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STEVE–What were your thoughts? I have been sick in bed for two days and could not make the meeting

Randy I am at work right now so not much time I will post more when I get home tonight.

I felt that there was a lot of bowhunters at this meeting, so there was support for it, but I’m not really sure it was an overwhelming majority. In talking with some people that were there, seems like there was a lot of support for moving the firearms seasons back even though the DNR didn’t want to discuss it and it wasn’t one of the topics on the list.

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I felt that there was a lot of bowhunters at this meeting, so there was support for it, , seems like there was a lot of support for moving the firearms seasons back .

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It’ll never happen so calm down. Alcohol works for me.

Here is what I took away from the meeting last night, even though there were allot of people there that were in favor of moving the gun season out of the prime time rut, according to the DNR 2009 survey only about 32% of those surveyed were in favor of moving the season to late Nov and it also seems that the DNR has no interest in moving the season as well. After sitting through this meeting last night here are the changes that I think you will see next year, 1. Antler Point restriction and possibly adding the two days back to the 300A season if this goes through. However the DNR has been hearing from land owners at these meetings that do not want the 300A season to go back to nine days so it is also possible that we would get the antler point restriction with only a seven day hunt. It will be interesting to see if hunter satisfaction of APR will go up here in MN after a couple of years the same as it did in Missouri and Pennsylvania. 2. No cross tagging of bucks. 3. A state wide youth hunt over MEA weekend Oct 21-24 2010.

So Randy I think you can rest easy I do not think you will see MN move the gun season out of the peak rut time any time soon. The results of the 2010 survey should be out sometime in April.

GAME OVER