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MENOMINEE INDIAN TRIBE OF WISCONSIN v. THOMPSON

No. 95-C-30-C.

943 F.Supp. 999 (1996)

MENOMINEE INDIAN TRIBE OF WISCONSIN, Plaintiff, v. Tommy G. THOMPSON, Governor of the State of Wisconsin; George E. Meyer, Secretary, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources; James T. Addis, Administrator of DNR Division of Resource Management; John E. Fryatt, Administrator of DNR Division of Enforcement; Herbert F. Behnke, Trygbe A. Solberg, Neal W. Schneider, Betty Jo Nelsen, Mary Jane Nelson, James E. Tiefenthaler, Jr. and Stephen D. Willett, Members of the Wisconsin Natural Resource Board, Defendants.

United States District Court, W.D. Wisconsin.

September 16, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bruce R. Greene, Greene, Meyer & McElroy, P.C., Boulder, CO, for Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin.

Charles D. Hoornstra, Asst. Atty. General, Madison, WI, for Defendants, State of Wisconsin, Wisconsin Natural Resources Bd., George E. Meyer, James T. Addis, John E. Fryatt, Tommy G. Thompson, Herbert F. Behnke, Trygbe A. Solberg, Neal W. Schneider, Betty Jo Nelsen, Mary Jane Nelson, James E. Tiefenthaler, Jr., Stephen D. Willett.

Paul M. Erspamer, Jastroch & La Barge, S.C., Waukesha, WI, for Lorman Anderson, Haze Diemel, Eureka Dam Campsite, Inc., Daniel F. Groeschel, Linda Wendt, Sturgeon for Tomorrow, Inc., Walleyes for Tomorrow, Inc., Wis. Fed. of Great Lakes Sport FIS.

Charles G. Curtis, Foley & Lardner, Madison, WI, for Wisconsin Paper Council, P.H. Glatfelter, Riverside Paper, Wisconsin Tissue Mills.

Kevin E. O'Neill, Milwaukee, WI, for Wisconsin Commercial Fish. (INTV).

OPINION AND ORDER

CRABB, District Judge.

This is a civil action in which plaintiff Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin seeks declaratory and injunctive relief, asserting that it enjoys off-reservation rights to hunt, fish and gather without state restriction on the lands it ceded to the United States in 1831, 1836 and 1848 and that it has unextinguished aboriginal rights, derived from long uninterrupted use, to hunt and fish in various Wisconsin waters,...

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