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2-12-16 assembly passes bill outlawing hunter harrassment

todayFebruary 12, 2016

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The state Assembly has approved a bill that would prohibit people from bothering hunters in the woods.  The Assembly passed the bill on a voice vote Thursday with no debate. The measure now goes to Gov. Scott Walker. The Senate passed the bill on a voice vote last month.  The bill’s Republican authors say concerns about hunter harassment have grown since the Wolf Patrol, a group of animal rights activists, followed and filmed wolf hunters in Wisconsin and Montana in 2014.  The bill would expand the definition of interference with a hunter to include remaining in a hunter’s sight and photographing or confronting a hunter more than twice with the intention to interfere.

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