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May 12, 2026

Patrick Durkin: Wisconsin’s spring hearing voters support license fee increase

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Wisconsin’s outdoors community supports paying more to operate the state’s fish and wildlife programs, but not necessarily at any price.
That’s one point to take from nearly 6,900 votes cast during mid-April’s annual conservation hearings, a statewide effort by the Department of Natural Resources and the citizen-based Conservation Congress. This year’s hearings consisted of in-person meetings April 13 in all 72 county seats, which drew 1,268 attendees, followed by three days of online voting, which drew 5,598 participants.

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Seeking story behind 100-year-old unique rack on this Wisconsin buck

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Central Wisconsin real estate agent Brian Ruesch specializes in buying and selling hunting land, so he knows more than a little about deer. That’s why he didn’t hesitate to buy the mounted head hanging on the cabin wall of the property he was appraising before the estate sale a few years ago.
Now Ruesch, of Vesper, wonders if anyone knows the story behind the nontypical buck that scored 215 inches and won the best of show at the Open Season Sportsman Expo in Wisconsin Dells.

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State Roundup: Thoughts on a couple lawsuits impacting Wisconsin anglers

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The Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) is going to make another run at trying to place Great Lakes region lake sturgeon on the federal Endangered Species List. Second time.
The group lost its previous bid in 2024. What the heck are they thinking? They have absolutely no leg to stand on in this lawsuit. So it has to be money.

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New York’s State of Lake Erie meeting updates anglers on fishery

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The New York Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) held its annual State of Lake Erie public meeting on April 23 at Woodlawn Beach State Park and it was filled with pertinent information about the fishery and the resource itself.
All the top biologists and managers from the Lake Erie Fisheries Research Unit out of Dunkirk were in attendance, as well as other personnel from Region 9 Fisheries to present and add to the discussion.

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Wisconsin’s Eland community raising money to repair dam, save trout pond

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A one-acre pond might not be a big deal to most people, but that’s not the case in Wisconsin’s Shawano County village of Eland that depends on the pond – and its trout – for playing a major role in hosting an annual kids’ fishing day.
Eland, a village of about 200 residents between Birnamwood and Wittenberg just off of Hwy. 45, is doing what it can to preserve the Eland Mill Pond, an impoundment of Railroad Creek. The dam is in need of repair. The village just started a fundraising effort to come up with $100,000 for the project.

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Research efforts showing promise toward restoring American chestnut trees

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150 years ago, the American chestnut tree was one of the most important food sources in the woods for wildlife in much of the United States.
Chestnuts were the most abundant hardwood tree in the eastern United States, making up an estimated 25 to 30 percent of the eastern hardwood forest. That changed in the early 20th century, when a fungal blight that was accidentally imported from Asia all but wiped out the American chestnut.

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