LANSING (AP) -- The deer baiting ban is no longer for much of Michigan's lower peninsula.
The Department of Natural Resources Commission voted 4 to 3 to lift the baiting ban late Thursday afternoon.
The Commission will revisit the issue in three years. The new rules are in effect this hunting season October 1 to January 1.
Baiting and feeding have been banned 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 new plan would allow baiting and feeding with limits in the Lower Peninsula except for a section of northeastern Michigan where bovine tuberculosis remains a problem.
Policies that allow limited feeding by hunters in the Upper Peninsula will continue. The plan will also allow people to feed deer for recreational viewing except in the bovine TB zone.
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