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By Joe Albert - staff writer - OutdoorNews:
Brainerd, Minn. - Crow Wing County had enough of waiting for state regulation of permanent deer stands. So it passed its own ban.
As of Aug. 1, construction and use of permanent deer stands is outlawed on its 103,00 acres of county lands. Crow Wing is the second county to address permanent stands; Cass County bans damage to trees because of permanent stands, but doesn't expressly prohibit them.
"We've been talking about it for so long, but the response has always been, 'Well, we really can't do anything until this is a statewide initiative,'" said Thomas Cowell, Crow Wing County land commissioner. "We're not going to wait any longer. Hopefully, others will follow suit."
Crow Wing County passed the resolution in 2003. The upcoming big game season, which begins with the Sept. 1 bear opener, is the first to be affected.
Portable deer stands still are allowed under the ordinance. And they can be placed and left in trees from one week before the big game season to one day after the season closes.
The ordinance also allows the removal of lateral branches less than an inch in diameter. Screw-in steps and anchor bolts are allowed for use with portable stands if they're removed when the stand is removed.
Since the resolution passed in 2003, county officials have been trying to spread the word on the change.
Stands currently in trees are being tagged with orange cards to inform hunters of the law, Cowell said.
"We're not out there to be pinching people left and right," he said. "This is going to evolve over a period of time."
In making the change, Crow Wing County is aligning itself with Chippewa and Superior national forests, which don't allow permanent stands. But they're still allowed on state and most county lands.
There is an interest among counties to have more consistent rules, said Tom Baumann, forest management supervisor for the DNR, who's been involved in meetings with stakeholder groups to talk about regulation changes.
"There is a sense that, some of them anyway, would like to mirror the Cass or Crow Wing rules as time goes on," Baumann said.
At the state level, substantive change hasn't gone beyond the discussion phase, but smaller tweaking has occurred.
A bill passed this year stated that a permanent stand on public land is public, and not the property of the person who built it. The DNR always operated under the assumption that was the case; the law change clarified it in statute, said Ed Boggess, Fish and Wildlife Policy Section chief.
The tendency of hunters to move on from areas with permanent stands was one of the reasons for the Crow Wing County change, Cowell said.
"You are reserving your area; you're tending to pre-empt public use," Cowell said. "If you go out scouting and see a stand, obviously you are not going to put a stand right next to it."
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