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March 18, 2025

Wisconsin DNR says 750-acre wildfire in Green Lake County now 100% contained

Featured, National News, Nature Page & Night Sky, News, Wisconsin /

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) on Tuesday morning announced that a 750-acre Big Island Fire in the White River Marsh State Wildlife Area in Green Lake County is now 100% contained as of midnight.
The fire broke out at 4:30 p.m. Monday, March 17. It burned primarily in cattails and marsh grass. Six homes were evacuated and saved, and approximately 12 outbuildings were saved.

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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reopens public comment period for monarch butterfly Endangered Species Act listing proposal

Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, National News, Nature Page & Night Sky, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin /

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is reopening the public comment period for a proposed rule to list the monarch butterfly as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act.
The proposed rule includes species-specific protections and flexibilities to encourage conservation of the butterfly under section 4(d) of the ESA. The comment period will be reopened for 60 days, until May 19, 2025, to give all interested parties an additional opportunity to comment on the proposed rule.

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Ralph Loos: Boone and Crockett Club’s Big Game Awards an easy way to revisit hunting dreams

Featured, Hunting, Illinois, National Hunting, Opinion /

Like most everybody else who grew up a ruralist in the most rural part of rural Illinois, I spent a significant chunk of my childhood chasing rabbits and squirrels – all the while pretending I was chasing elk and grizzly bears.
A quirky imagination came in handy. As TV heroes go, far above the Six Million Dollar Man was Grizzly Adams, and I sort of remember dressing up like him and even occasionally sliding one of my mom’s butcher knives into my waistband – because it always seemed possible an angry mountain lion or hungry timber wolf might confront me from the coat closet.

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Queechy Lake: Stocked trout, and plenty of largemouths in New York’s Columbia County

Lake Profile, Lake Profile, New York /

And the water quality and temperature – the lake has a maximum depth of 40 feet – allow some of the trout that survive the early-season fishing pressure to hold over. Reports of catching browns and rainbows on either side of the 20-inch mark are credible and fairly common.

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Commentary: Concealed ed carry renewal is the N.Y. gun owner’s responsibility

Featured, New York, Opinion /

It use to be that a concealed carry permit was issued for the life of the recipient, unless revoked. Then New York State felt the need for a five-year re-certification of pistol permits for all the law-abiding concealed carry gun owners and the permits they held.
The theory behind it was to reduce crime. Following passage of the Concealed Carry Improvement Act in 2022, the re-certification process has been moved up to every three (3) years. It is amazing how many New York State concealed carry pistol permit holders are not aware of this regulation.

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