As my readers know, the little cabin is nothing fancy. It is a small, one room, few amenities structure in the woods in Portage County. Its best features are its front porch, a magnificent woodstove, and the 123 acres of forest and wildlife that surround it.
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“We are going to do a combination of ground fishing and shark fishing,” I told anyone who would listen, as the summer field trip for the Duck’s Unlimited (DU) Conservation Programs Committee (CPC) approached.
As I wrote in my last column, we were headed to Maine for a two-day meeting. Dr. Karen Waldrop, DU’s chief conservation officer, Jessica Tyler, DU’s manager of conservation projects, and I decided to stay another day after the meeting to go fishing.
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“The researchers at the marsh have just captured two fledgling saltmarsh sparrows,” Dr. Karen Waldrop, Ducks Unlimited (DU) chief conservation officer shared via the public address system on the bus. “We need you to file quickly, but safely, off the bus and onto the marsh. If we can do this by the time the students finish their measurements, we will get to see the birds before they release them.”
I volunteer as senior vice-president for conservation for DU. This means I chair the DU Conservation Programs Committee (CPC).
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“Christine, I am looking for blurbs for my book. I know you have things to do, but if it works out …” messaged Al Cornell, a retired Wisconsin DNR wildlife technician, author, photographer, and one of my Facebook friends.
He lives in the Driftless Region of Wisconsin on the family farm. Last year he published an amazing book called A Year at a Beaver Pond: Observations from One Little Dynamic Ecosystem. I was honored that he asked me to do a “blurb” for the back cover of his new book, Bobcats Return to the Driftless Area: Including a Pictorial Chronology of a Mother and Kittens.
“HO HO HO!” texted Tom Dew.
“Merry Christmas,” I texted back.
In mid-July we headed to Hayward, Wis., for our annual visit at the Dew Drop Inn. Tom and Kris Dew have been in this column on several occasions. We met through the Boone and Crockett Club and have gone on to collaborate on several conservation projects over the years.
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It took me a few hours to focus on the ruckus going on in the woodlot east of the little cabin. It was the Fourth of July. The day was hot, so we planned to spend a few hours out at the little cabin doing chores, taking a Ranger ride, and picking up trail camera chips to share antler development over our Deer Report text message group.
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This is issue No. 14 of the 2025 edition of Wisconsin Outdoor News. In issue No. 3, I introduced my readers to the dog sport of Barn Hunt when Major, and many Airedale friends, did barn hunt training at the Oh Rats Dog Training Center in Sheboygan.
Barn Hunt is a sport where the objective is to find rats that are hidden safely in PVC pipe tubes, and buried in straw. The dog must find the rat or rats, navigate tunnels in the straw, and climb on bales. The time is limited.
Christine Thomas: Major steps up, captures barn hunt title Read More »
I was in Baltimore in late May for the Ducks Unlimited convention. My DU Conservation Programs Committee was meeting there, as was the board of directors. I had booked a fishing trip with fellow board members, Jim Vachris, of Wilmington, Del., and Teresa Keating, of Midland, Mich.
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“Feeders have been taken down by bear(s) in a subdivision about a mile southeast of you for the past two weeks,” our town chairman posted on my Facebook page.
He was responding to the trail camera photos of a bear I shared with my friends. I also posted evidence that the trail camera bear visited the little cabin yard, wreaking havoc with our various bird feeders. Husband, Stan, and I had pulled into the cabin yard on a Saturday afternoon in early May.
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