Wisconsin bear hunters will have to wait until Jan. 28, 2026, to find out for certain, but there’s a better than even chance they will see a healthy increase in bear harvest tags for 2026.
That’s the date Natural Resources Board (NRB) members will take up a Department of Natural Resources (DNR) recommendation on next year’s black bear harvest quota and harvest tag numbers.
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Hunter Nation leaders and U.S. Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-Wisconsin) urged Wisconsin sportsmen and women to vote and to ramp up pressure on wolf management issues, saying strong voter turnout among hunters, anglers, and trappers could shift statewide policy debates.
During his turn at the podium, Tiffany also called for splitting the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) into two agencies: one focused on fish and wildlife, the other on environmental regulation, a move he said would better protect sportsmen’s license dollars.
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The new wolf advisory committee convened in October for its second meeting, trying to navigate one of Wisconsin’s most divisive wildlife management issues. While the committee doesn’t make final decisions, its work will help shape the framework for a future wolf season, should the species ever be federally delisted.
The DNR’s Lesa Kardash was chosen as the Wisconsin Wildlife Federation (WWF) Conservationist of the Year, with the award bestowed on Kardash at the group’s annual award banquet.
When it comes to protecting Wisconsin’s wildlife, the name of Lesa Kardash carries a lot of weight, said Cody Kamrowski, WWF executive director. A 25-year DNR veteran and a senior wildlife biologist, Kardash has long been at the forefront of conservation. But it is her tireless work safeguarding one of the state’s most iconic and threatened grassland species, the greater prairie chicken, that earned her WWF’s highest honor.
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George Meyer might be retired, but he’s not tired. Well, at least not too tired after 50 years of working conservation causes to challenge what conservation groups see as inadequacies in a proposed 9,000-acre solar farm to be placed right next to the Buena Vista State Wildlife Area in the towns of Plover and Grant in Portage County.
Meyer has guided the Wisconsin Wildlife Federation (WWF) and Dane County Conservation League (DCCL) through almost two years worth of legal hurdles on this project involving Vista Sands Solar, LLC, and its application to the state’s Public Service Commission.
Newly appointed Department of Natural Resources Secretary Karen Hyun made an appearance before Wisconsin Wildlife Federation (WWF) directors and affiliate representatives at the group’s annual meeting in early April, stating she was grateful for the partnership with the group and commended those in attendance for their dedication to the state’s natural resources.
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More than 100 sportsmen braved a snow and ice storm late Sunday, March 30, to attend a Hunter Nation meeting in Ashland, Wis., where issues ranging from wolf management to so-called “weather warfare” were discussed.
Hunter Nation Wisconsin State Director Chris Vaughn opened the meeting with updates on the group’s advocacy around predator management, particularly its involvement in the ongoing debate over federal wolf delisting in the Great Lakes states.
The battle to permanently delist the gray wolf in the lower 48 states continues at the federal level now that U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) joined two other senators last week to offer their version of a wolf delisting bill working its way through the House of Representatives.
Johnson joined Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), in introducing U.S. Senate legislation last week aimed at removing the gray wolf from the federal endangered species list once and for all.
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Federal wolf delisting took one small step closer to becoming reality as members of the House Committee on Natural Resources passed the Pet and Livestock Protection Act, H.R. 845, out of committee by vote of 24 to 17 on Wednesday, April 9.
The bill now goes to the full House of Representatives. A similar bill introduced by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) is working through the U.S. Senate.
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