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Wisconsin volunteers get crash course on importance of Karner blue butterflies

It may be small – only about the size of a nickel – but the Karner blue butterfly is a big deal to Chelsea Weinzinger.
That’s one of the reasons why Weinzinger, the Wisconsin DNR’s Karner blue recovery coordinator, showed up June 13 at Hartman Creek State Park near Waupaca. She led a group of nine volunteers that will help the DNR monitor the population of Karner blue butterflies, a federally endangered species and a species of concern in Wisconsin.
“Karners are a federally endangered species and Wisconsin holds the largest population in the world, so it is important to monitor the species,” she said.

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Larry Slagoski, longtime president of Musky Clubs Alliance of Wisconsin, set to retire

The Musky Clubs Alliance of Wisconsin (MCAW) has enormous shoes to fill as its longtime president, Larry Slagoski, has announced he will not seek another term.
Slagoski, 86, of Weston, has been president of the alliance for about 35 years. The group’s vice-president, Dave Allen, told Wisconsin Outdoor News that a new president will be elected when the group’s directors meet in November.

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Wisconsin DNR can begin drafting ‘housekeeping’ regulations for wildlife and fish rule changes

The Wisconsin Natural Resources Board (NRB) approved two scope statements involving future wildlife rules and one statement for fisheries rules that now allow the Department of Natural Resources to begin drafting minor “housekeeping” regulations.
The regulations will eventually go out for public hearings and then will have to be approved by the NRB at a future meeting.

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Researchers with Minnesota’s Voyageurs Wolf Project capture and collar their first black wolf

It’s not every day you see a black wolf roaming the wilds of northern Minnesota in and around Voyageurs National Park near the Canadian border.
As wilderness happenings go, it’s a rare occurrence. That’s the word from the Voyageurs Wolf Project, which reported the black wolf Aug. 8 on its social media platforms after collaring the animal as part of its ongoing wolf research at the 218,000-acre Greater Voyageurs Ecosystem (which includes Voyageurs National Park).
“It was the first black wolf we’ve collared in our 11 years of research.”

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Remade Klum Lake should be on Iowa birders, duck hunters radar this fall

Ringed by trees and away from the busy roads in eastern Louisa County, Iowa’s Klum Lake has undergone a significant makeover over the past decade or so.
The 250-acre natural floodplain lake – historically connected to the Mississippi River by Muscatine Slough – had been filled with eight-foot-tall cattails with only a handful of small open water pockets for limited hunting.

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