Patricia Randolph’s Madravenspeak: Let’s have $5 ‘gatherer’ license to take live animals and plants from public lands

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“Any society allows you to agree with the government. A free society allows you to disagree fundamentally.” ~ I.F. Stone, “Con Games”

To equalize fair citizen participation, I propose that the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources establish laws encouraging citizens to dig up trees and plants and take live animals from our public lands without limit, with a $5 annual “gatherer” license incentive. Citizens can start a small nursery business of indigenous plants and trees or a live indigenous animal center to re-populate empty Wisconsin woods.

The season would not have to interrupt the $5 licenses sold to new trappers for indiscriminate killing of wildlife. Their $5 season spans mid-October through March in the south, into April birthing seasons up north. It would be appropriate to have live animal trapping after birthing seasons in March/April and plants and trees taken during spring re-growth of new vegetation through fall.

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  1. I’m guessing this is not a serious proposition to collect plants from public lands. Can’t there be at least one place where wild plants and animals are left alone?

    In any event, some wild plants and fungi are allowed to be gathered on public lands although I don’t know if a fee is required. I don’t think gathering from public lands is a good idea and certainly, in the cases of parks and Scientific and Natural Areas (SNAs), probably would cause a population decline for some species. Also, because many plant species look very similar it is entirely possible that endangered species would be taken further reducing their already small populations.

    Having said that, in Wisconsin logging IS allowed on some SNAs. One example is an SNA (Erickson Creek) in northeastern Wisconsin. The logging is billed as “innovative” (you won’t find that on the official web site as it is in hard to locate documents). Too bad for the white cedar forest. Also, because this SNA is administered by the county rather than the WI-DNR hunting and trapping might be allowed.

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