Wisconsin’s Outdoor Calendar
Here’s a look at outdoors-related events from across Wisconsin published in the March 7, 2025, edition of Outdoor News.
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March 3, 2025
Snowy owl with orange coloring seen multiple times in Michigan’s Huron County
As a professional wildlife photographer and avid birder, Bill Diller is used to fielding reports of extraordinary or unusual birds – most of which turn out to be quite ordinary.
So, when a neighbor knocked on his door a few weeks ago claiming to have spotted a snowy owl with unusual, reddish-orange-colored feathers near his home in Caseville, Mich., he was skeptical, to say the least. His skepticism quickly turned to excitement upon arriving at the reported location and seeing the large, majestic, and yes, reddish-orange, snowy owl sitting atop a utility pole near a busy intersection.
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Wisconsin Cuffs & Collars: Anglers leave for a bit, put their buddy in a bind with warden
Wisconsin cuffs and collars are field reports from the Wisconsin DNR. These reports are from the March 7, 2025, edition of Outdoor News.
Wisconsin Letters to the Editor: Time to get live sonar, underwater cameras out of modern day sturgeon spearing
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the March 7, 2025, edition of Wisconsin Outdoor News.
Overall deer kill up 7% in Wisconsin from 2023 as crossbow, archery hunters lead the uptick
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) reported on the 2024 deer hunting season – showing that the overall harvest was up 7% over 2023 – to the Natural Resources Board (NRB) Feb. 26.
Jeff Pritzl, DNR deer program specialist, said that season highlights include: the increased harvest; the safest hunt in the last 40 years; license sales increased slightly; and there was a decreased turn-around time to report results of CWD sampling to hunters.
Yellow bass fishery developing a legion of angling fans in southern Minnesota
It’s not every day that a new fishery develops, but southern Minnesota anglers have been buzzing about an exploding yellow bass population in the Fairmont area in recent years.
“They showed up (in the Fairmont chain of lakes) first in 2012, caught by an ice angler,” said Nate Hodgins, assistant area DNR fisheries supervisor in the Windom office.
Hodgins said the fish likely were stocked illegally by area anglers. He said they could have come from the Iowa Great Lakes, which are relatively close by and where the species is native.
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Dean Bortz: Habitat-based deer units back in place in Wisconsin’s forest zones
Wisconsin deer hunters who have been begging and pleading for the DNR and Natural Resources Board (NRB) to dump the Dr. James Kroll county deer unit system and go back to habitat-based numbered units like we use to have can now be thankful.
On Feb. 26, NRB members voted unanimously to adopt a plan the puts the state’s two forest zones, northern and central, back into numbered units. There are some huge thank-you’s to be offered here, but there first thank you has to go to a man who is no longer with us.
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MN Daily Update: New angling limits for several fish species
The Minnesota DNR has added new angling limits for several
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Bob Gwizdz: Never leave fish to find fish
One of the benefits to being a journalist is you have access to people who know stuff.
Regardless of your job, you are generally dealing with folks who are on their game – the mayor, the football coach, the police chief, etc. But if you spent your career on the hook-and-bullet beat, you can have access to the best hunters and anglers. One of my favorite sources is Mark Martin, walleye fisherman extraordinaire.
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