Capitol Report: Deer hunting Texas style? Walker administration says ‘no’

Talk of Wisconsin?s rich deer-hunting tradition being overhauled by a Texas wildlife biologist hired by the Walker administration to manage the state?s deer population has led to mounting fear that Wisconsin?s public hunting land will go the way of Texas. If that scenario played out, public land would be snatched up by private owners, preventing the state?s roughly 600,000 deer hunters from roaming free of charge to hunt…Besides raising concerns among some Assembly Democrats, (James) Kroll?s preliminary report also has drawn criticism from Tim Van Deelen, a UW-Madison associate professor of forest and wildlife ecology.