residences, and would include hunting ….

residences, and would include hunting cabins and camp sites. This allows a person to leave their registered deer at a hunting camp, meat processor or someone else’s residence when they are not present.

  Your registered deer can be left at any cabin or campsite and be possessed, in your absence, by someone who is not hunting. This person can also transport the deer on public highways to another residence, meat processor, etc.

  Anyone who possesses a gun deer license can use any legal firearm, bow or crossbow to hunt deer with that license during any season open to hunting deer with a firearm. A separate bow or crossbow license does not apply.

  The DNR, through Go Wild, will issue a replacement harvest authorization for all harvested deer that test positive for chronic wasting disease, regardless of sex. The authorizations are valid for the season in which they are issued as well as the following season. This ensures that a hunter will have hunting opportunities to use the authorization regardless of when it is issued. The authorizations will be for the same type (buck/antlerless), county and land type if applicable.

  Restrictions remain in place for transporting deer harvested in CWD-affected counties. The head and spinal column cannot be moved any farther than an adjacent county outside a CWD-affected area unless the carcass is taken to a licensed meat processor or permitted taxidermist within 72 hours. Whole carcasses and parts of carcasses from other states and provinces where CWD has been detected are not allowed into Wisconsin unless taken to a licensed meat processor or permitted taxidermist within 72 hours of entry into Wisconsin. Anyone wanting to transport a deer from Wisconsin to another state should contact the state to which the deer will be transported, as well as states through which the deer will travel, to determine what restrictions may exist.