26 Wardens x 8 hours/pay period = 208 hrs/pay period x 10 pay periods = 2080/hrs x $35/hr salary and fringe = $72,800 salary and fringe. In addition, there will be the added cost of approximately
$8,840 meals and $9,486 in mileage (meals and miles based upon previous cost estimates for CWD efforts).
Wildlife Management: The costs associated with the implementation of the new CWD deer herd control hunts including the testing and permit issuance during the extended season at registration stations will result in an additional staff time including the use of an LTE's, as well as mileage and other equipment expences.
10 LTE's x 20 hours/week = 200 hours x 10 pay periods = 2000 hours x $10/hour = $20,000
10 hours of overtime / pay period x 75 (50% of the wildlife staff) = 750 hours x 10 pay periods = 7, 500 hours x $28/hour (salary and fringe) = $210,000
Meals, mileage and other 1614 appropriations based on the first 14 weeks of CWD operation expenditures (~ $12,000 / wk): 20 weeks x $12,000 = $240,000
An additional cost will be the production of a regulation pamphlet to explain the CWD special hunt framework regulations and requirements.
Regulation Pamphlet 550,000 x $ .02 = $11,000
Customer Service and Licensing: The production of special permits associated with the implementation of the special CWD hunts.
Est # Special Carcass Tags
(200k EAB, 100k Antlered, 15k Disease Replacement) 315,000
Cost per form $0.075
$ 23,625
An additional cost will be the time required by staff to answer CWD related questions and issue the special permits.
Equivalent FTE positions
(Assuming SCR&CO staff @15% & NOR,WCR,NER,SER staff @ 5%) 10.1
Average Annual CS Salary (not including benefits) $ 29,200.00
$294,920.00
Parks and Recreation: Signage and maps will need to be produced for the 8 state park properties where expanded herd control measures will be in effect.
Supplies and Services: Printing or updating Maps, Signs, Permits and Instructions:
$500.00 for 8 other parks which have previously been open to deer hunting ($500x 8) = $4,000
Supplies and Services: Vehicle Maintenance and Expenses for Increased Patrol
$1,000 per park x 8 = $8,000
Salaries and Fringes - $30 per hour: Determination of Hunting Boundaries, Preparing/Revising Maps and Signs, Posting Signs
16 hours 8 parks which have previously been open to deer hunting (16 x 8 x $30) = $3,840
Salaries and Fringes - $30 per hour: Distributing Permits, Law Enforcement, Admitting Hunters to Park and/or Documenting Permits
4 hours per park per day x $30 per hour x 8 x 38 days (based on the average number of days all 8 parks will be open to hunting) = $36,480
3) Anticipated grand total for hunting season implementation
Salary and Fringe: $637,240
Materials and Expences: $304,951
Eradication Zone Efforts: The printing and issuance of permits, sharp shooting, carcass collection and registration are all areas where staff time and resources will be required.
Permit issuance and landowner contacts = 10 perm. employees x 10 additional hours/pay period x 4 pay periods = 400 x $28 / hour = $11,200 salary and fringe.
Sharp shooting = 12 perm. employees x 20 additional hours/pay period x 14 pay periods = 3,360 x $28 / hour = $94,080 salary and fringe.
Carcass pick-up crews = 8 perm. employees x 20 additional hours/pay period x 4 pay periods = 640 x $28 / hour = $17,920 salary and fringe.
Baiting crews =
180 tons of bait @ $200/ton $36,000
Vehicle Mileage - 100,000 miles @ $0.30/mile $30,000
Salary and Fringe - 20 FTEs x $21.63/hr. in salary and fringe x 8 weeks $138,432
Registration Stations = 16 perm. employees x 20 additional hours/pay period x 4 pay periods = 1,280 x $28 / hour = $35,840 salary and fringe.
Meals, mileage and other 1614 appropriations based on the first 14 weeks of CWD operation expenditures (~ $12,000 / wk): 11 weeks x $12,000 = $132,000
Baiting and Feeding Enforcement: Respond to and investigate violations pertaining to the statewide ban on baiting and feeding. The new regulations will require approximately 8 FTE worth of effort statewide for Law Enforcement wardens.
2080 hours (1 FTE) x 8 x $35/ hour (salary and fringe): $582,400
Miscellaneous materials including ammunition, office supplies and field equipment: $40,000
4) Anticipated grand total for eradication zone activities
Salary and Fringe: $879,872
Materials and Expences: $238,000
Decreased Revenue Details:
There will be a loss in revenue stemming from the absence of bonus permit sales in the CWD zones.
Est # of OTC Bonus Sales lost (assumed 50% loss in split units) 24,048
Dollar figure assumes 4:1 ratio of Resident:Non-resident sales
$13.60
$327,052.80
Est # of Bonus Sales lost thru mail (assumed 50% loss in split units) 22,570
Dollar figure assumes 4:1 ratio of Resident:Non-resident sales
$13.60
$306,952.00
We assume that the loss in hunters was a product of some apprehension on behalf of our hunters who chose to sit out the year until statewide test results are returned. If CWD is confined to the south central part of the state we can assume that license sales will return to pre CWD levels. Even if we do not recover the lost hunters, we do anticipate the loss to stabilize and the hunters that purchased a license in 2002 will again purchase licenses into the future.
1) Anticipated total loss in revenue $634,004.80
Written comments on the proposed rule and Environmental Impact Statement may be submitted to Mr. Kurt Thiede, Bureau of Wildlife Management, P.O. Box 7921, Madison, WI 53707 no later than March 31, 2003. Written comments will have the same weight and effect as oral statements presented at the hearings. A copy of the proposed rule [WM-05-03 and WM-09-03], fiscal estimate and Environmental Impact Statement may be obtained from Mr. Thiede.
Notice of Hearings
Natural Resources
(Fish, Game, etc., Chs.
NR 1—)
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to ss.
23.09 (2) (c),
29.014 (1),
29.041,
29.614 and
227.11 (2), Stats., interpreting ss.
29.014 (1) and
29.041, Stats., the Department of Natural Resources will hold public hearings on revisions to ch.
NR 20, Wis. Adm. Code, relating to fishing on the inland and outlying waters of Wisconsin. The proposed rule will:
1. Eliminate tagging of fish unless an individual obtains a scientific collectors permit.
2. Change the closing date for the general inland hook and line fishing season, rough fish spearing seasons, and hook and line seasons on the Great Lakes and tributaries that currently close March 1 to the first Sunday in March.
3. Create a separate sturgeon carcass tag for the upriver lakes (Lakes Poygan, Winneconne and Butte des Morts) and Lake Winnebago during the special sturgeon spearing seasons held on the upriver lakes every 5 years (the next of which will be held in 2005). The upriver lakes tag would be usable only on the upriver lakes.
4. Reduce the season length from 2 days to one day for sturgeon spearing on the upriver lakes (Lakes Poygan, Winneconne and Butte des Morts) of the Winnebago system waters held every 5 years (the next of which will be held in 2005).
5. Identify waters open to hook and line lake sturgeon fishing and close all other waters to hook and line lake sturgeon fishing.
6. Close the hook and line fishing season for shovelnose sturgeon on the Chippewa river downstream from Interstate Highway 94 bridge at Eau Claire including its tributaries upstream to the first dam or lake.
7. Increase the minimum length limit from 34" to 45" for muskellunge on Lakes Waubesa and Monona, and from 40" to 45" for muskellunge on Lake Wingra, Dane county.
8. Increase the minimum length limit from 34" to 50" for muskellunge on Boom lake, Minocqua chain, Rhinelander flowage, Thunder lake and Willow flowage and from 40" to 50" on Rainbow flowage, Oneida county.
9. Increase the minimum length limit from 34" to 50" for muskellunge on Big T. Germain lake, Big Sand lake, Content lake, Fawn lake, Long lake, Manitowish chain, Plum lake, Presque Isle chain, Star lake, and White Sand lake; increase the minimum length limit from 40" to 50" for muskellunge on Big Muskellunge lake, Crab lake, Kentuck lake and Papoose lake; increase the minimum length limit from 45" to 50" for muskellunge on Trout lake, Vilas county.
10. Extend the 40" minimum length limit for muskellunge currently in effect on Holcombe flowage (Chippewa and Rusk counties) to coincide with the walleye regulations for the Holcombe flowage and tributaries by increasing the minimum length limit from 34" to 40" for muskellunge on the Jump river, Price county; the Chippewa river and all tributaries upstream to the first dam or lake, the Flambeau river upstream to the Thornapple flowage dam including all tributaries upstream to the first dam or lake, and the Jump river and its tributaries upstream to the first dam or lake, Rusk county; the Chippewa river and all its tributaries upstream to the first dam or lake, Sawyer county; and the Jump river and tributaries upstream to the first dam or lake, Taylor county.
11. Change the size restriction from no minimum length limit with only one fish longer than 14" allowed to the statewide minimum size limit of 15" for walleye on East Horsehead lake and Manson lake, Oneida county.
12. Increase the minimum length limit from 15" to 28" and decrease the daily bag limit from 5 to one for walleye in Black Oak lake, Vilas county.
13. Increase the minimum length limit from 15" to 18" and decrease the daily bag limit from 5 to 3 for walleye in Found lake, Vilas county.
14. Increase the minimum length limit from 9" to 15", reduce the daily bag limit from 3 in total to one in total, and establish an artificial lure only restriction for trout on Ben Nutt creek, Mill creek, and the Onion river upstream from CTH E, Sheboygan county.
15. Increase the minimum length limit from 7" to 9" and reduce the daily bag limit from 5 in total to 3 in total for trout on Wood creek, Taylor county to coincide with regulations on the Rib river into which Wood creek flows and which is commonly fished along with Wood creek by anglers on the same trip.
16. Reduce the daily bag limit from 25 in total to 10 in total for panfish on Thompson lake, Pepin county.
17. Decrease the daily bag limit from 25 in total to 10 in total for panfish on Sand lake, Sawyer county.
18. Increase the minimum length limit from 14" to 18" and decrease the daily bag limit from 5 in total to one in total for largemouth and smallmouth bass, increase the minimum length limit from none to 32" and reduce the daily bag limit from 5 to one for northern pike, and decrease the daily bag limit from 25 in total to 10 in total for panfish on Dry Dam lake, St. Croix county.
19. Decrease the daily bag limit from 25 in total to 10 in total for panfish on Squaw lake, St. Croix county.
20. Increase the minimum length limit from 14" to 18" and decrease the daily bag limit from 5 in total to one in total for largemouth and smallmouth bass on Hartford lake, Waushara county.
21. Decrease the daily bag limit from 25 in total to 10 in total for panfish on Hartford lake, Waushara county.
22. Create a 20" to 27" protected slot limit for walleye on the Mississippi river Pool 12 and reduce the daily bag limit for walleye and sauger from 10 in aggregate of which no more than 6 may be walleye to 6 in aggregate on the Wisconsin-Iowa boundary waters.
23. Establish a fish refuge beginning December 1 of each year and lasting through March 15 of the following year in, on or along the Mississippi river from lock and dam number 11 downstream to the STH 61 and 151 bridge on the Wisconsin-Iowa boundary waters.
24. Increase the minimum length limit from 14" to 18" and decrease the daily bag limit from 5 in total to one in total for largemouth and smallmouth bass on the Lower Wisconsin River from the Prairie du Sac dam downstream to the STH 80 bridge at Muscoda.
NOTICE IS HEREBY FURTHER GIVEN that pursuant to ss.
23.09 (2),
29.014,
29.182 and
227.11 (2), Stats., interpreting ss.
29.182,
29.347,
29.361,
29.595 and
29.889, Stats., the Department of Natural Resources will hold public hearings on revisions to chs.
NR 10,
12 and
19, Wis. Adm. Code, relating to hunting and trapping regulation changes. The proposed rules:
1. Allow the use of muzzleloading handguns for deer and bear hunting.
2. Modify the Metro Deer Management Unit season framework to eliminate overlapping regulations and seasons.
3. Eliminate the south muskrat and mink zone and incorporate these areas into the central zone.
4. Modify the zone boundary where bear hunting with dogs is allowed.
