Spring drumming surveys from the states that still conduct such surveil lance indicate a slight decline from last year, following the traditional eight- to 11-year cyclical pattern. Here’s a closer look at what primary ruffed grouse states predict for this fall.
Burnett County’s town of Scott cutting-edge action on the controversial wake boat issue in Wisconsin was backed recently when a federal court upheld the town’s ordinance that limits wake boat use.
The township’s ordinance, which is designed to protect shallow lakes within the township from shoreline damage and disruption of lake beds, was challenged in a lawsuit filed by lake property owners who claimed that their rights to use the lake as they wanted was being infringed upon by the ordinance.
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Addie Schroeder will be the first to admit she’s one lucky girl in all sorts of ways. While the variety of local Wisconsin outdoor adventures she’s experienced are some of them, tagging a Montana mountain lion with the help of her own dogs sits high on that list.
“For as long as I can remember, the outdoors has always been a big part of my life,” said Schroeder, 22, of Shell Lake, who works as a registered nurse at a Cumberland hospital.
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Chai Soua Vang, 57, the St. Paul, Minnesota, man who was sentenced to six life sentences for the intentional homicide of six Wisconsin deer hunters and wounding two others in 2004, died in a hospital on June 10 at the age of 57.
No cause of death or other information related to his passing was provided by the Wisconsin Department of Corrections due to privacy laws. On Thursday, June 11, a status update was entered into Vang’s case file on the Wisconsin Circuit Court Access page, confirming his death as of June 10.
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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A procrastinator is defined as someone “who delays or puts off things that should be done in a timely manner.” I could be a poster child for the word, at least until I run out of reasons not to.
I ran out of reasons the other day during a late winter snowstorm, so I sorted through a couple boxes buried in a closet. I’d been making decent headway when a weathered pamphlet caught my eye. What I found in those pages burned up the rest of that snowy afternoon.
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Washburn County’s April 13 spring fish and game hearing was a little unique this year in having Shell Lake resident and Natural Resource Board (NRB) Chairman Bill Smith take the floor briefly to comment on DNR funding and fish and wildlife license fees.
“The simple question is how would you handle your personal checkbook with a 66% inflation rate? This (lack of license fee increases) has had a very significant impact on the DNR and the work they do since most of their budget comes from hunting and fishing license sales,” Smith said. “We need to find a way to get everyone involved in paying for managing our natural resources.”
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I disagree wholeheartedly with Wisconsin Outdoor News Editor Dean Bortz when he says it’s time to think about an earlier opening date for the deer gun season. It’s not time, Dean, it’s way past time and, according to the majority of the letters to the editor I’m reading, I’m not alone.
Twenty-five years ago, when I was the regional warden for the DNR’s Northern Region – a position now called captain – I was part of the DNR’s Deer 2000 and Beyond effort.
Commentary: Earlier deer gun season opener in Wisconsin long overdue Read More »
Ask any deer hunter – especially one with a few seasons under the belt – what’s looked forward to most during the hunt, and there’s a good chance the reply will have something to do with time spent with family and friends.
Bill Taubman, of Shell Lake, Wis., is one of those hunters. Taubman hiked into his opening day deer stand for his 75th time in November. This year his hunting partner was 83 years younger than him.
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