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November 25, 2023

Noll’s Dairy Farm earns Wisconsin Leopold Conservation Award

Noll’s Dairy Farm, of Alma, is the 2023 Wisconsin Leopold Conservation Award recipient.
The award honors farmers and forestland owners who go above and beyond in their management of soil health, water quality, and wildlife habitat on working land. Noll’s Dairy Farm was revealed as the award recipient at the Nov. 16 meeting of the Board of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection in Madison. Mark, Curtis, and Scott Noll and their families receive $10,000 and a crystal award for being selected.

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NWTF helps host healing turkey, deer hunts for vets in Minnesota

Each year, the National Wild Turkey Federation’s Minnesota State Chapter partners with the Minnesota Veterans Outdoors Program to host two events: the disabled veterans turkey hunt in April and the disabled veterans deer hunt in October. 
These events honor and support those who have served their country with unparalleled dedication through providing disabled veterans with an opportunity to experience the joy of recreational hunting and the camaraderie of fellow veterans.

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Clyde, Ohio, shooter earns prestigious ‘Distinguished Rifleman’ status

Bryan Scott, 55, of Clyde, Ohio, has reached an accomplishment many set out to achieve but never attain – earning a Distinguished Rifleman Badge. It came unexpectedly through a hobby that started as a mere suggestion and blossomed into a persistent passion.
These badges are the highest individual awards authorized by the U.S. government for excellence in marksmanship competition.

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Wisconsin’s preliminary bear kill down sharply from 2022

Even as we start parsing up the early archery season deer kill and 2023 opening weekend gun deer kill, we have an update from the DNR on preliminary harvest numbers from this fall’s bear season. Ironically or coincidentally, those preliminary bear kill numbers are trending with the deer kill. Down.

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New York landowners sought for grassland preservation to help state birds

Several grassland-dwelling songbirds in New York state face a threat to their survival as the habitat they rely on has been in decline.
State wildlife managers have worked to improve that habitat on state land, but say the vast majority of grasslands in the state are on private property. The Department of Environmental Conservation and other state and federal agencies collaborated to launch a program in 2008 designed to encourage landowners in specific target areas to convert more of their properties to grasslands, and now program managers are pushing for more participation.

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Writings of former outdoor humor columnist Pat McManus are health aid for the outdoorsmen

A silver lining of my wife’s recent resolve to monitor my blood pressure is that I rediscovered Pat McManus.
Protocol dictates that I sit, comfortable and relaxed, for several minutes before the electric sleeve performs its python-like constrictions on the upper arm. That’s so your pressure returns to normal after exertion (Like trekking across the room?). I’ve read that laughter reduces blood pressure. So, hoping for readings that won’t alarm my spouse, I sought my copy of “They Shoot Canoes, Don’t They?” a McManus’ classic I’d neglected for years, to read between the squeezes.

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