WI Daily Update: Nominate great educators in hunting and archery
The Wisconsin DNR is seeking nominations for its 2025 hunter
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February 3, 2026
New York ECOs bust illegal striped bass take, sales in Nassau County
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Police Officers late in 2025 issued several tickets for the illegal harvest and selling of striped bass.
According to a DEC report, in Nov. 2025, ECOs Berketis and Smith responded to a report of a group transferring oversized striped bass into a cooler behind a residence in the Village of Freeport. ECO Smith arrived at the location first, discovered the reported residence was really a deli, and observed a large cooler with 18 striped bass ranging in size from 28 to 41 inches.
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MN Daily Update: How trees withstand the cold of a Minnesota winter
Minnesota recently withstood a stretch of frigid temperatures. Ever wonder
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Tom Bahti: Looking back on the work of Wisconsin giants in deer management world
I was fortunate to work as a wildlife biologist during the heyday of Wisconsin’s preeminence in the world of white-tailed deer management.
The passing of some of the legends in what used to be the DNR Forest Wildlife Research Group has made me look back nostalgically at the “good old days,” and to rue even more so the damage that was done to perhaps the premier white-tailed deer management program in the country when Dr. James Kroll was hired by then-Gov. Scott Walker.
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