Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians v. Wisconsin

OPINION and ORDER

CRABB, Chief Judge.

This case is before the court for a determination of certain disputed issues relating to plaintiffs’ off-reservation hunting of white-tailed deer, fisher and other furbearing animals, and small game within the area of the state ceded to the United States by the plaintiff tribes. Deer hunting was the subject of a trial held in August 1989. The hunting of the other animals is the subject of stipulated facts submitted by the parties.

In this phase of the litigation, which has focused on the regulation of the harvesting of specific species, the parties have…