October 12, 2001

Whoopers are about five feet tall and have wingspans of about seven feet. They’re white with black wing tips. In flight, they extend their long necks straight forward, with long, slender legs behind the tail. They migrate singly or in groups of two or three and may be associated with sandhill cranes. Report a sighting […]

Associate Editor St. Croix Falls, Wis. As costs associated with wolf depredation exceed funds allotted to cover losses, Wisconsin residents who could potentially lose animals to wolves want to make sure enough money is available in the future. “We’re concerned about future funding needs,” Eric Koens, of the Northern Wisconsin Beef Producers Association, told the

Vaa said the spring migration was different from the past spring due to a heavy snowpack in eastern and northeastern South Dakota. In the U.S. and Canada, the harvest of light geese since 1998 has been more than 1 million birds; the past three years the conservation order has accounted for a third of the

Correspondent Madison Alliant Energy Corporation’s workplace violence policy, which recently shut hunters out of 2,900 acres of prime hunting land around its Columbia Energy Center near Portage, will affect even more Wisconsin hunters and acres. That’s because Alliant is not only a large utility company, but also a major landowner in Wisconsin and the Midwest.

Editor St. Paul A shake-up in the DNR Commissioner’s office will redistribute responsibilities among the agency’s top management staff. Under the new structure, Kim Bonde, former special assistant to Commissioner Allen Garber, will take over as assistant commissioner of administration. The previous assistant commissioner for administration, Kurt Ulrich, now moves to head the Bureau of

Editor St. Paul The Minnesota DNR announced last week that effective Dec. 1, 2001, Lake Mille Lacs anglers may keep walleyes between 14 inches and 18 inches, with one walleye over 28 inches in their possession limit. The announcement followed a meeting last Thursday between DNR Commissioner Allen Garber and other DNR staffers with about

Milwaukee The DNR has negotiated an option to buy lakefront property for public access on 81-acre Moose Lake, in the town of Merton in Waukesha County. There is no adequate public access to Moose Lake now. Lake residents and the public are limited to one private boat ramp on the south shore. The DNR has