Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Oct. 2, 2026 edition of Wisconsin Outdoor News.
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Originally from the Pittsburgh area, Mike Skvarla, an entomologist at Penn State, has been applying for an elk permit each year since he moved back to Pennsylvania in 2017. The 40-year-old lives in Port Matilda. This year he was surprised when his name was drawn for a bull elk tag for the archery season in Elk Hunt Zone 309.
“I entered the drawing each year just figuring that I would never be drawn,” Skvarla said. “It was just my donation to the Game Commission. So, I was totally in shock when I learned that my name had been selected.”
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When the Natural Resources Board (NRB) tried mopping up Wisconsin’s 2026 deer management plans during its June meeting, members merely rearranged the dust and debris while wishing for better things next year.
Such futility isn’t new. That’s been the script each June since Wisconsin hatched its “new age” of deer hunting in 2014, a do-nothing system crafted by Gov. Scott Walker’s administration and then acquiesced by Gov. Tony Evers’ “I see nothing” regime the past eight years.
Looking back, Minnesota pheasant hunters have gotten smarter and pheasant numbers have increased, too. It’s no coincidence. But it hasn’t happened overnight.
For example: Almost unheard of these days are pheasant hunters complaining about predators when bird numbers decline. The connection seems obvious.
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When Keith Tidball took over as president of the New York State Conservation Council two years ago, he knew he had a lot of work to do to get the organization back in shape.
He also didn’t plan to make a career out of it. Tidball told supporters to give him two years, and then he surrounded himself with a good team, and got to work.
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Today, buying a hunting or fishing license is such a routine part of being a sportsman that it is easy to forget how – and why – the system began. Licensing was not originally created to fund wildlife conservation. In fact, its roots were considerably less altruistic.
Early sportsmen often promoted licensing and residency restrictions as a way to keep “outsiders” out.
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Opening day of bear season is a busy time at Whiskey Ridge Sport Shop on Hwy. 70 in this normally sleepy Northwoods Wisconsin crossroads community.
Owner Mark Heath sells sporting goods, but he also operates a meat-processing plant that caters to deer and bear hunters. On the afternoon of Sept. 9, hunters started showing up with the first bears of the season. By the end of the night, 32 bears had come through the doors. The biggest bear of the day and, as it turned out, of the season as of Sept. 23 was a 613-1⁄2-pounder shot by Mark Smith, of Knox, Ind.
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