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Wisconsin DNR’s Lobner is navigating knife-edge fine budget line

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While legislators lambasted the Wisconsin DNR for cuts to fish, wildlife, and parks programs since budget woes became more definitive in early March, the man in charge of those programs has been looking for ways to ease the pain felt by sportsmen.
Eric Lobner has headed up the DNR’s Fish, Wildlife and Parks Division for just under two years. Lobner took some time last week to work through budget issues in that division.

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Newly-formed Friends of Wisconsin Fisheries take on DNR, legislators

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Some of the same faces under a new, more broad name want state legislators and fish biologists to feel their heightened determination to draw attention and action to Wisconsin’s Lake Superior fisheries issues.
More than a dozen “south shore” conservation groups, business groups, and local governments from Hurley to Superior recently formed Friends of Wisconsin Fisheries after learning of recent DNR hatchery closures in Osceola and Brule, and fish stocking cuts to Lake Superior.

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Dean Bortz: Wisconsin sportsmen should be tracking discussion from Natural Resources Board meetings

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If anyone who reads this newspaper has a spare 20 to 25 minutes at any point in the day, please go to the Wisconsin DNR TV channel, or just type in Wisconsin Natural Resources Board (NRB) meetings and hit enter.
What I’m asking you to do is watch the segments from citizens who sign up for the public participation portion of the NRB meetings.

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State Roundup: Wisconsin fish and wildlife programs get a bit more spending power

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Wisconsin DNR secretary Karen Hyun shared some thoughts with Natural Resources Board members at the top of the June 24 meeting in Black River Falls and talked a little bit about the legislature’s Joint Finance Committee recently releasing $4 million of spending authority (the budget had transferred the money earlier, but had not given the DNR authority to use that money until recently.)

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Dean Bortz: Perhaps a nightcrawler farm supersedes garden idea

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Believe it or not, I don’t always make the right decisions in my relationship with Stephanie Lewis. Or maybe this take is a little closer to gospel – I lead off with only the best of intentions, but those intentions don’t always hit where they’re aimed, or those intentions aren’t necessarily perceived as they were intended.

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State Roundup: An ode to Wisconsin Public Radio’s Larry Meiller as his retirement nears

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Larry Meiller has the longest-running radio call-in show in Wisconsin.
He started Wisconsin Public Radio’s call-in format in 1978. I did not know that. That’s pretty amazing. As most of you probably know, Meiller is putting down the headphones and microphone for good soon. He’s retiring once and for all. Or at least that’s what he’s saying now. I’m not sure I can see Meiller sitting still for very long.

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Poisoned beaver carcasses on state forest land draw 10 citations for Wisconsin man

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A Lake Tomahawk man who allegedly placed poisoned beaver carcasses on state forest land near his home in Oneida County was issued 10 citations totaling more than $2,700 in possible fines.
Seven of the 10 citations are connected to the Interstate Wildlife Violator Compact, which means the defendant could lose hunting, fishing and trapping privileges in Wisconsin and the other 48 states that are part of the compact.

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Dean Bortz: Yes, catching a muskie can be bad thing

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Ever get cussed out, harangued, and blasphemed for catching a muskellunge?
That happened to yours truly on a very cold, windy night in mid-May while fishing with my son, Daniel, and granddaughter, Charlotte, age 8. Just to clarify, it was Daniel who did the cussing and blaspheming. Lotti still likes me. A muskie ranging somewhere from 32 to 35 inches pretty much wrecked a fishing outing in mid-May.

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State Roundup: Information on Wisconsin’s Beaver Dam Lake, and Natural Resources Board updates

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Our back page lake articles are one of the most popular features that readers enjoy. Despite devoting a page to each lake, there is never enough room to include all of the information available for each lake that makes the back page. That’s the case for Beaver Dam Lake.

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