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Downstate baiting and feeding ban may end

UNDATED (WNMU) - A ban on baiting and feeding deer may soon end in most of Michigan.

The Natural Resources Commission tentatively agreed Thursday to let hunters spread up to two gallons of bait at each hunting site throughout the Lower Peninsula, except for the section of Northeastern Michigan where Bovine Tuberculosis remains a problem.

The existing two-gallon limit in the Upper Peninsula would continue. The Commission would also allow recreational feeding of deer statewide, except for the Bovine TB zone.

Baiting and feeding have been outlawed in the Lower Peninsula since August 2008, when a deer with Chronic Wasting Disease was found at a captive breeding farm in Kent County. No other cases have been reported.

The Commission will vote on its proposed new policy June 9 in Lansing.

Nicole was born near Detroit but has lived in the U.P. most of her life. She graduated from Marquette Senior High School and attended Michigan State and Northern Michigan Universities, graduating from NMU in 1993 with a degree in English.