29.595(2)(f)
(f) Rules promulgated by the department concerning elk hunting.
29.595(3)(a)
(a) The department shall issue a certificate of accomplishment to a person who successfully completes the course of instruction under the elk hunter education program.
29.595(3)(b)
(b) Except as provided in par.
(c), no person may be issued an elk hunting license unless he or she holds a valid certificate of accomplishment issued under this subsection.
29.595(3)(c)
(c) A person who has a certificate, license, or other evidence that is satisfactory to the department indicating that he or she has successfully completed in another state, country, or province an elk hunter education course recognized by the department may obtain an elk hunting license.
29.595(4)
(4) Fee prohibited. The department may not charge a fee for the course of instruction or the certificate of accomplishment.
29.595 History
History: 2001 a. 109;
2005 a. 289.
29.597
29.597
Trapper education program. 29.597(1)(1)
Establishment; program requirements. 29.597(1)(a)
(a) The department shall establish and supervise the administration of a trapper education program funded from the appropriations under s.
20.370 (1) (Lq) and
(ma). Except with respect to the online course of instruction under sub.
(1m), the department shall enter into an agreement with an organization that has demonstrated ability and experience in the field of trapper education to assist in the establishment and administration of the program.
29.597(1)(b)
(b) The trapper education program shall provide classroom instruction and instruction by correspondence and shall provide a course of instruction that includes all of the following:
29.597(1)(b)3.
3. Interrelationships between trapping activities and the conservation of natural resources.
29.597(1)(c)
(c) The trapper education program shall use certified instructors when providing the instruction on techniques of trapping fur-bearing animals. The department shall establish criteria and standards for certifying these instructors. This paragraph does not apply to the online course of instruction under sub.
(1m).
29.597(1m)
(1m) Online course of instruction. The department shall offer an online course of instruction under the trapper education program.
29.597(2)(a)
(a) The department and the organization with which the department enters into an agreement under sub.
(1) (a) shall jointly do all of the following:
29.597(2)(a)1.
1. Contract with a qualified individual, who may not be an employee of the department, to operate the trapper education program.
29.597(2)(a)2.
2. Prescribe the duties and responsibilities of the individual contracted with under subd.
1. 29.597(2)(b)
(b) The individual contracted with under par.
(a) 1. shall operate the trapper education program and shall do all of the following:
29.597(2)(b)1.
1. Supervise the recruitment and training of qualified trapper education instructors.
29.597(2)(b)3.
3. Maintain the records for the trapper education program.
29.597(2)(c)1.1. If the online course of instruction under the trapper education program requires field testing for a person to demonstrate successful completion of the course, the department shall make field testing available through each department service center at least once every 2 months.
29.597(2)(c)2.
2. If the online course of instruction under the trapper education program requires a written test for a person to demonstrate successful completion of the course, the department shall offer the test at each department service center at least once every 2 months.
29.597(2)(d)
(d) Paragraphs
(a) and
(b) do not apply to the online course of instruction under the trapper education program.
29.597(3)(a)
(a) The department shall establish by rule the fee for the course of instruction under the trapper education program.
29.597(3)(b)
(b) An instructor conducting the course of instruction under the trapper education program shall collect the fee established under par.
(a) from each person receiving instruction. The department may authorize an instructor to retain up to 50 percent of the fee to defray expenses incurred by the instructor conducting the course. The instructor shall remit the remaining portion of the fee or, if nothing is retained, the entire fee to the department.
29.597(4)
(4) Course and promotional materials. The department may reimburse the organization with which it enters into an agreement under sub.
(1) (a) for the organization's costs of producing promotional and course materials for the program.
29.597(5)(a)
(a) The department shall issue a certificate of accomplishment without charge to a person who successfully completes the course of instruction under the trapper education program and who pays the instruction fee. The certificate may be used by a resident to whom issued in place of a trapping license for the period specified by the department.
29.597(5)(b)
(b) The department shall issue a duplicate certificate of accomplishment to a person who is entitled to a duplicate certificate of accomplishment. The department shall establish by rule the fee for a duplicate certificate.
29.597(6)
(6) Requirement of certificate of accomplishment to obtain trapping approval. 29.597(6)(a)
(a) No person may be issued an approval authorizing trapping unless he or she holds a valid certificate of accomplishment issued under this section.
29.597(6)(b)
(b) The following persons are exempt from the requirement under par.
(a):
29.597(6)(b)1.
1. A resident who held on May 12, 1992, a valid approval authorizing trapping.
29.597(6)(b)3.
3. A resident who has held a valid approval authorizing trapping that expired before May 12, 1992, and that was not suspended or revoked.
29.597(6)(b)4.
4. A person who holds a valid certificate, license or other evidence indicating that he or she has successfully completed a trapper education course in another state if the department determines that the course has substantially the same content as the course of instruction under the program established under this section.
29.597(7)
(7) Proceeds from the sale of skins. The department may sell, either directly or by an agent under supervision of the department, skins that are prepared as a part of the course of instruction under the trapper education program. Any proceeds that the department receives from the sale of these skins shall be credited to the appropriation account under s.
20.370 (1) (Lq).
29.597 History
History: 1991 a. 254;
1997 a. 248 ss.
416 to
419,
644; Stats. 1997 s. 29.597;
2005 a. 284,
394;
2011 a. 168.
29.598
29.598
Outdoors skills training. 29.598(1)(1)
Program coordination. The department and the board of regents of the University of Wisconsin System shall enter into an agreement with an established national organization that provides training to persons who are interested in learning about the outdoor skills needed by women to hunt, fish, camp, canoe and undertake other outdoor recreational activities in order to provide that type of training to interested persons.
29.598(2)
(2) Match. No moneys may be paid from the appropriation account under s.
20.370 (1) (mu) for the costs associated with the agreement under sub.
(1), unless the organization described in sub.
(1) demonstrates that it has contributed an equal amount to pay for those costs. The matching contribution may be in the form of money or in-kind goods or services.
29.598 History
History: 1999 a. 9;
2011 a. 32.
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
29.601
29.601
Noxious substances. 29.601(1)(a)1.
1. Take, capture or kill fish or game of any variety in any waters of this state by means of dynamite or other explosives or poisonous or stupefying substances or devices.
29.601(1)(a)2.
2. Place in any waters of this state explosives which might cause the destruction of fish or game, except when authorized by the department for the purpose of raising dead bodies, clearing a channel or breaking a log or ice jam.
29.601(1)(a)3.
3. Have in the possession or under the control of the person, upon any waters of this state, any dynamite or other explosives or poisonous or stupefying substances or devices for the purpose of taking, catching or killing fish or game.
29.601(1)(b)
(b) Whoever violates this subsection shall be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned for not more than 90 days or both.
29.601(2)
(2) Poison. No person may use, set, lay or prepare in any of the waters of this state any poison or any other substance deleterious to fish life.
29.601(3)(a)
(a) No person may throw or deposit, or permit to be thrown or deposited, into any waters within the jurisdiction of the state any lime, oil, tar, garbage, refuse, debris, tanbark, ship ballast, stone, sand, except where permitted by s.
30.12 (3) (a) 1., slabs, decayed wood, sawdust, sawmill refuse, planing mill shavings or waste material of any kind, or any acids or chemicals or waste or refuse arising from the manufacture of any article of commerce, or any other substance deleterious to game or fish life.
29.601(3)(b)
(b) Paragraph
(a) does not apply to authorized drainage and sewage from municipalities and industrial or other wastes discharged from mines or commercial or industrial or ore processing plants or operations, through treatment and disposal facilities installed and operated in accordance with plans submitted to and approved by the department under chs.
281,
285 or
289 to
299 or in compliance with orders of the department. Any order is subject to modification by subsequent orders.
29.601(3)(c)1.1. Any person violating this subsection shall forfeit not more than $200. Each day of a continuing violation is a separate offense.
29.601(3)(c)2.
2. Any person who intentionally violates this subsection shall be fined not more than $200 or imprisoned not more than 90 days or both.
29.601(4)
(4) Use of pesticides. The department of natural resources, after public hearing, may promulgate rules governing the use of any pesticide which it finds is a serious hazard to wild animals other than those it is intended to control, and the making of reports about the pesticide. In promulgating the rules, the department to the extent relevant shall consider the need for pesticides to protect the well-being of the general public. “Pesticide" has the meaning given in s.
94.67.
29.601(5)(a)
(a) This section does not apply to any activities carried out under the direction and supervision of the department of transportation in connection with the construction, reconstruction, maintenance and repair of highways and bridges in accordance with s.
30.2022.
29.601(5)(b)1.1. This section does not apply to toxicants placed in the waters of a self-contained fish rearing facility or a state or municipal fish hatchery if the toxicants are necessary to the operation of the fish farm or fish hatchery.
29.601(5)(b)2.
2. This section does not apply to toxicants placed in the waters of a preexisting fish rearing facility that is an artificial body of water if the toxicants are necessary to the operation of the fish farm and the department has issued a permit under s.
283.31 for the preexisting fish rearing facility.
29.601 Cross-reference
Cross-reference: See s.
94.709 for prohibition of use of DDT and exceptions to the prohibition.
29.601 Cross-reference
Cross-reference: See also s.
NR 19.01, Wis. adm. code.
29.601 Note
NOTE: 2005 Wis. Act 347, which affected this section, contains extensive explanatory notes.
29.601 Annotation
The legislative history and language of sub. (3) indicate that the statute is concerned primarily with the discharge into navigable waters of refuse arising from manufacturing activities and does not attempt to prohibit silting caused by surface water runoff. State v. Deetz,
66 Wis. 2d 1,
224 N.W.2d 407 (1974).
29.601 Annotation
A proposed rule prohibiting the use of the chemical 2,4,5-T, unless a permit has been obtained, is within the statutory authority of the department of natural resources under sub. (4). 64 Atty. Gen. 126.
29.601 Annotation
Discharging taconite tailings into the waters of Lake Superior was a violation of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and a common-law nuisance. United States v. Reserve Mining Co.
380 F. Supp. 11 (1974).
29.604
29.604
Endangered and threatened species protected. 29.604(1)(1)
Purpose. The legislature finds that certain wild animals and wild plants are endangered or threatened and are entitled to preservation and protection as a matter of general state concern. The federal endangered species act of 1973 and the Lacey act together provide for the protection of wild animals and wild plants threatened with worldwide extinction by prohibiting the importation of endangered or threatened wild animals and wild plants and by restricting and regulating interstate and foreign commerce in wild animals and wild plants taken in violation of state, federal and foreign laws. The states, however, must also assume their responsibility for conserving these wild animals and wild plants and for restricting the taking, possession, transportation, processing or sale of endangered or threatened wild animals and wild plants within their respective jurisdictions to assure their continued survival and propagation for the aesthetic, recreational and scientific purposes of future generations. The legislature finds that by restricting the taking, possession or marketing of endangered species in this state and by establishing a program for conservation and restoration of these endangered or threatened species, their potential for continued existence will be strengthened. The legislature further finds that the activities of both individual persons and governmental agencies are tending to destroy the few remaining whole plant-animal communities in this state. Since these communities represent the only standard against which the effects of change can be measured, their preservation is of highest importance, and the legislature urges all persons and agencies to fully consider all decisions in this light.
29.604(2)
(2) Definitions. For purposes of this section:
29.604(2)(a)
(a) “Endangered species" means any species whose continued existence as a viable component of this state's wild animals or wild plants is determined by the department to be in jeopardy on the basis of scientific evidence.
29.604(2)(am)
(am) “State agency" means a board, commission, committee, department or office in the state government or the Fox River Navigational System Authority. “State agency" does not include the department of natural resources or the office of the governor.
29.604(2)(b)
(b) “Threatened species" means any species of wild animals or wild plants which appears likely, within the foreseeable future, on the basis of scientific evidence to become endangered.
29.604(2)(bn)
(bn) “Whole plant-animal community" means a group of species living together in a particular area, time and habitat.
29.604(2)(c)
(c) Notwithstanding s.
29.001 (90), “wild animal" means any mammal, fish, wild bird, amphibian, reptile, mollusk, crustacean, or arthropod, or any part, products, egg or offspring thereof, or the dead body or parts thereof.
29.604(2)(d)
(d) “Wild plant" means any undomesticated species of the plant kingdom occurring in a natural ecosystem.
