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Board votes to end 'canned' hunts
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Hunting deer and other animals inside fenced areas would be banned in Indiana under state regulations that could take effect within about two months.
The state's Natural Resources Commission gave its final approval on Tuesday to ending the so-called "canned" deer hunts.
Department of Natural Resources Director Kyle Hupfer had sought the new rules after announcing last August that he believed the hunting preserves holding such hunts were not authorized under Indiana law.
No state agency requires information on high-fenced hunting operations, but 12 to 15 such preserves are estimated to exist in Indiana.
It could take 60 days for the rule to go into effect as it has to be approved by Gov. Mitch Daniels and then be submitted to the secretary of state's office for 30 days, DNR spokeswoman Kim Brant said.
The agency had held off on a fenced-hunting ban so the General Assembly could consider the matter during its session which ended last week.
The House approved a proposal would have made it legal to hunt deer inside the fenced hunting preserves for the next seven years. But that bill did not win final passage, allowing the DNR to follow through with its plan to shut down the preserves.
A lawsuit challenging the ban is pending, with a southern Indiana hunting-preserve owner having asked a Harrison County judge for a restraining order to stop the DNR from implementing a ban.
Daniels told reporters recently that he hoped for a resolution between the DNR and the preserves as there was evidence that the preserve owners had been told in the past that they could hold their hunts.
"Their argument has, I think, some merit from a fairness standpoint," Daniels said. "I think there may well be a compromise in there, and I hope we reach one."
Hupfer, the DNR director, said he had determined that while the state game breeder permit allows for the possession, breeding and sale of white-tailed deer, it does not authorize the hunting of deer maintained under that license.
His move to ban the hunts followed the conviction last year of a Miami County deer farmer on charges he violated federal wildlife protection laws by allowing unlicensed hunters to use illegal weapons and bait to hunt bucks on his land.
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Board votes to end 'canned' hunts
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Hunting deer and other animals inside fenced areas would be banned in Indiana under state regulations that could take effect within about two months.
The state's Natural Resources Commission gave its final approval on Tuesday to ending the so-called "canned" deer hunts.
Department of Natural Resources Director Kyle Hupfer had sought the new rules after announcing last August that he believed the hunting preserves holding such hunts were not authorized under Indiana law.
No state agency requires information on high-fenced hunting operations, but 12 to 15 such preserves are estimated to exist in Indiana.
It could take 60 days for the rule to go into effect as it has to be approved by Gov. Mitch Daniels and then be submitted to the secretary of state's office for 30 days, DNR spokeswoman Kim Brant said.
The agency had held off on a fenced-hunting ban so the General Assembly could consider the matter during its session which ended last week.
The House approved a proposal would have made it legal to hunt deer inside the fenced hunting preserves for the next seven years. But that bill did not win final passage, allowing the DNR to follow through with its plan to shut down the preserves.
A lawsuit challenging the ban is pending, with a southern Indiana hunting-preserve owner having asked a Harrison County judge for a restraining order to stop the DNR from implementing a ban.
Daniels told reporters recently that he hoped for a resolution between the DNR and the preserves as there was evidence that the preserve owners had been told in the past that they could hold their hunts.
"Their argument has, I think, some merit from a fairness standpoint," Daniels said. "I think there may well be a compromise in there, and I hope we reach one."
Hupfer, the DNR director, said he had determined that while the state game breeder permit allows for the possession, breeding and sale of white-tailed deer, it does not authorize the hunting of deer maintained under that license.
His move to ban the hunts followed the conviction last year of a Miami County deer farmer on charges he violated federal wildlife protection laws by allowing unlicensed hunters to use illegal weapons and bait to hunt bucks on his land.
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