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August 16, 2024

Special report: Wisconsin DNR’s tight budget under scrutiny

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Back in January at the Wisconsin Natural Resources Board (NRB) meeting, DNR officials reminded NRB members that the bulk of fisheries, wildlife, and law enforcement funding comes from the “conservation fund,” also known as the Fish and Wildlife Account, that’s fueled largely by hunting, fishing, and trapping license fees, along with special stamps required for some fish and wildlife species.
The fund normally “rotates” on a 10-year cycle, building funds early in those 10 years while paying for traditional conservation activities. The DNR “spends down” the fund later in the cycle when license fee increases have taken place in the past.

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18 new Minnesota DNR conservation officers graduate, begin field training

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Eighteen people who’ve trained since late April to become Minnesota Department of Natural Resources conservation officers took a step closer to achieving their goal earlier this week when they graduated from the 23rd CO Academy.
They will spend the next several months training throughout the state with experienced conservation officers. The new officers will complete field training and be in their assigned stations in early December.

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Michigan offers a smorgasbord of fishing opportunities in September

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September is a month of anticipation for Michigan outdoor enthusiasts.
Hunters eagerly are preparing for the early teal and goose seasons, and archers are diligently tending their food plots. The excitement is building for the big game hunts out West. And for us anglers, the anticipation of the upcoming September fishing season is just as thrilling. 

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South Dakota Game, Fish & Parks alters August Canada goose season

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The South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks Department has decreased the number of counties open for the August “management take” of locally-produced Canada geese, citing both declining population levels and conflicts with landowners as central to the change in management of the large waterfowl species.
Rocco Murano, chief waterfowl biologist with the GF&P, says that the overall population of resident Canada geese in eastern South Dakota appears to be within the management goal of 115,000 to 165,000 birds.

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Steve Pollick: An ode to two remarkable Ohio outdoorsmen in Mike Budzik and Roy Kroll

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If there is someone who has poured more blood, sweat, and tears into fostering sportsmen’s interests in Ohio in the last 45 years than Mike Budzik, I have not met him, or her.

“Bud,” as so many thousands of Ohio outdoors men and women know him, would never tell you that. He is too humble, self-effacing, always giving others credit first and foremost. Bud recently was inducted into the 2024 class of the Conservation Hall of Fame of the Ohio DNR, the outfit for which he virtually has given his professional life.

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Bucks of summer provide a great viewing experience

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My pal Paul resides on a hobby farm that, among other things, provides a heap of open pasture space upon which to train my dogs, shoot our hunting bows at 3-dimensional targets set up against a wooded backdrop, and view myriad wildlife. Because of that, the place has been a second home for me for decades.
A few days ago, I made a short foray to Paul’s place to run young Labrador, Jet, and to shoot my newest hunting bow. While hiking to the archery range, I surveyed the adjacent grain field for animal life, a second-nature action for me, and saw three impressive bucks calmly browsing along the field edge.

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Hudson River plan scrutinized, with some wanting fish barrier in attempts to keep round goby from New York’s Lake Champlain

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The round goby is a small fish, growing to a maximum of 6 inches. But the problems it causes when it makes it has made its way into watersheds in North America belie its size, as it devastates native fish populations via its aggressive feeding and relentless reproduction.
A native of Europe, the round goby is in all of the Great Lakes and has been spreading through the Erie Canal/Mohawk River system in New York, but so far has been stopped from making its way into Lake Champlain, home to healthy lake trout, Atlantic salmon, and warmwater fish populations.

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Tom Venesky: Should Pennsylvania trout season be closed during summers of excessive heat?

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“It’s a very difficult time for trout.”
That’s what a now-retired Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission biologist told me years ago when I asked him about lows flows and rising water temperatures during the summer. His assessment of summer’s impact on trout still holds true to this day, and I think about it often whenever we get a heat wave and dry weather.

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