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The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is accepting applications for Urban Wildlife Damage Abatement and Control (UWDAC) grants. UWDAC grants are available to any town, city, village, county or tribal government located within an urban area. For a complete list of eligible urban areas, click here.
Applications must be received on or before Dec. 1, 2021.
UWDAC grants help urban areas develop wildlife plans, implement specific damage abatement and/or control measures for white-tailed deer and/or Canada geese. Eligible projects include:
- Developing an urban wildlife population control plan
- Monitoring wildlife populations and establishing population estimates
- Removing deer using sharpshooters as part of a DNR-approved project
- Trapping deer and geese
- Implementing managed hunts
- Removing resident Canada geese by approved DNR methods
- Performing required health and tissue sampling
- Processing, distributing or disposing of geese or deer to a charitable organization
- Modifying habitat
- Implementing any other wildlife control or damage abatement practices approved by the DNR.
For more information and to apply for a UWDAC grant, visit dnr.wisconsin.gov/aid/UWDAC.html.
For questions about developing a plan, population monitoring and control method, please contact Sarah Wyrick, DNR Wildlife Biologist, at sarah.wyrick@wisconsin.gov or 608-266-2151.