Deer hunting numbers down 24 percent in Chippewa County
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By The Chippewa Herald
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 9:40 AM CST
The opening weekend of the gun deer hunting season in Chippewa County was a bust. Figures from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources show deer registrations down 24 percent from the 2007 opening weekend.
Last year, there were 1,401 bucks and 2,229 anterless deer taken the opening weekend, for a total of 3,630.
But last weekend, hunters in Chippewa County registered 1,117 bucks and 1,655 anterless deer, for a two-day total of 2,772. That's a drop of 20 percent for bucks and 26 percent for antlerless deer.
Chippewa County's 24 percent drop is consistent with other area counties. In Dunn County, there was a drop of 22 percent, while Eau Claire County showed a decrease of 23 percent.
St. Croix County had the worst fall off of the DNR's West-Central Region at 28 percent, while Pepin County was essentially the same as last year. Clark County had an overall drop of 17 percent, and Jackson County, long a haven for deer hunters, recorded a 16 percent drop.
Throughout the region, the number of bucks taken fell 21 percent while the number of anterless deer decreased by 16 percent, for a decrease of 18 percent overall.
In Barron County, 3,218 deer were registered compared with 4,349 last year, a drop of 26 percent.
Rusk County totals fell from 2,490 last year to 1,632 in 2008, a drop of 34.5 percent.
Another neighboring county to Chippewa, Taylor County, saw its totals drop from 2,666 to 1,807, a fall of 32.2 percent.
Like Barron, Rusk and Taylor counties are is in the DNR's Northern Region.
For more on the decrease in the deer registrations in Chippewa County, see Tuesday's printed edition of The Chippewa Herald.
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