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April 25, 2025

CWD cases escaping the disease’s ‘hot zone’ in Illinois

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A deer taken this past season by a hunter in Adams County that later tested positive for CWD has greatly loosened what had been a tightly contained disease “hot zone” in northern Illinois.
If you consider the CWD deer found in the middle of Bureau County last year as the furthest south positive case, then the Adams County deer would be roughly 170 miles even further south. A previous positive case in southern Livingston County would be roughly the same distance.

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Ely, Grand Marais ranger stations in Minnesota redirect Boundary Waters permitting

Featured, Fishing, Minnesota, National Fishing, National News, Nature Page & Night Sky, News /

In late-April, people who already planned to pick up their Boundary Water Canoe Area Wilderness permits from two ranger stations in Ely and Grand Marais received emails saying they’d have to make other plans.
The emails told paddlers scheduled to pick up their permits at Kawishiwi Ranger Station in Ely and Gunflint Ranger Station in Grand Marais to schedule pick up from another, open ranger station or from commercial permit issue stations.

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State roundup: Wisconsin turkey hunters off to a fast start, and a frustrating litter find

Featured, Hunting, National Hunting, Opinion, Wisconsin /

It looks like turkey hunters are off to a good start on the 2025 spring season, judging by early harvest numbers for the first season.
According to Taylor Finger, the DNR’s turkey and waterfowl ecologist, the preliminary harvest through the youth hunt, learn-to-hunt (LTH) programs, and the first time period stood at 14,737 birds as of April 15.

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Wisconsin’s Pete Olson, a coach and avid muskie angler, dies on 90th birthday

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“When I die, I know I’m not going to heaven because I’m there now,” Pete Olson said. “I fish every day and coach basketball during the winter.”
Olson, well-known retired basketball coach and avid muskie fisherman, passed away on his 90th birthday, April 3. Olson was the varsity basketball coach at LaFollette High School in Madison for 30 years where his teams won four conference championships, and state WIAA basketball championships in 1977 and 1982.

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Bill Hilts, Jr.: New York’s Lake Erie perch action heating up

Blogs, Featured, Fishing, National Fishing, New York, Opinion /

It was a winter that didn’t want to let go … and a spring that didn’t want grab hold and give us some decent weather. Finally, Easter weekend, the ice (finally) departed Lake Erie in the eastern basin of the lake off of Buffalo, N.Y.
Now the waters can begin to warm, and the spring fishing can explode. Well, kind of. 

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Wisconsin Mixed Bag: DNR accepting applications for seats on Wolf Advisory Committee through May 4

Nature Page & Night Sky, News, Wisconsin /

The DNR is seeking stakeholder applicants to serve on the DNR’s Wolf Advisory Committee. Applications will be accepted through Sunday, May 4, at 11:59 p.m. Committee members will assist the DNR with the implementation of the 2023 wolf plan that details the objectives, strategies and products that will help guide wolf conservation and management efforts in Wisconsin.

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Kroening pleads guilty to two counts in southeast Wis. deer poaching case

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Jessica Jill Kroening, 37, of West Bend (formerly of Brownsville), the adult female suspect in a southeast Wisconsin three-county poaching case that involved more than 100 dead deer, pleaded guilty to two counts and had one count dismissed April 22 in Washington County Circuit Court.
Kroening and her attorney, David Nelson, reached a plea agreement with Washington County District Attorney Barry J. Braatz on the charges.

Kroening pleads guilty to two counts in southeast Wis. deer poaching case Read More »

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