August 2, 2002

Aug. 8: 13th Annual banquet for Central Wisconsin Struttin’ Toms Chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation, Blue Top Supper Club, 3444 Division St., Stevens Point, 5:30 p.m., $50 per person, $90 per couple, prizes, raffles, auctions, for info, write: Scott Stankowski, 856 Oak Ridge Lane, Stevens Point, WI 54481. Aug 8: Valley/Appleton Chapter of […]

Aug. 10: Challenge The Outdoors, Inc. 50 Bird Trap Shoot at the Brown County Sportsmen’s Club in Green Bay. For more info call 920-833-6274 or 920-434-9930. Website: www.challengetheoutdoors.org Aug. 10-11: Aurora Ouisconsin Outdoor Club Annual 3-D Shoot. Camping welcomed & encouraged. For more info contact Scott Larson 715-392-8066. Check out website: www.aooc.org Aug. 10-11: 6th

Editor Madison The DNR hopes hunters will cooperate with its efforts to collect brain tissue samples from at least 36,000 deer during the 2002 gun deer season. The agency wants to test brain samples from at least 500 deer in each county outside of the CWD Eradication Zone. That effort is being made to help

Stalled Chippewa National Forest management frustrates many By Shawn Perich Field Editor Grand Rapids, Minn. Rick Horton wonders how many birds the next generation of grouse hunters will flush from coverts in the 670,000-acre Chippewa National Forest. As the Minnesota biologist for the Ruffed Grouse Society, he worries that timber harvest reductions and changing management

Aug. 7: Lake Pulaski fishing outing. Aug. 9-11, 16-18: Game Fair from 9 a.m. – 6 p.m. Aug: TBA Archery deer meeting at Maple Grove City Hall. Sept. TBA: Early Goose Opener. Goose hunting (MUST ATTEND JULY MEETING). Sept. 7: Annual 3M Sport Fishing Invitational White Bear Lake. Sept. 14: Archery deer hunting Maple Grove

Associate Editor and Correspondent Madison For several years, Wisconsin has had the option of having a split duck opener to satisfy the desires of hunters in the south and the north, but until now, there’s been no need to exercise that option. This year, though, it’s quite likely hunters in the north will get their

July 30: Hunter Ed. class for the Waupun, WI area at the Waupun Safety Building, 16 East Main Street in Waupun at 6:30 p.m. for 5 weeks on Tues. & Thurs. Aug. 3-4: The Wisconsin Trappers Assoc. Trapper Education Class from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., both days, at the Black Wolf Town Hall in

Game Fair features seminars, events, and items in which show-goers may participate. Included this year are John Satterwhite, All-American shotgunner and three-time World’s Women’s Flyer Champion Loral I Delaney. Jon Kruger brings his sporting clays shooting expertise to Game Fair, as well. Game Fair runs Aug. 9-11 and Aug. 16-18 this year, the 21st year

Participants will include the Wisconsin DNR, Wyoming DNR, Minnesota Board of Animal Health, Minnesota DNR, Department of Health, USDA, and the USFWS. The moderator for the event is Dr. Will Hueston from the University of Minnesota. The meeting will consist of informative presentations on CWD, and the status of the disease throughout the nation. The