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Five cow elk tags in play for Jackson Co. for Wisconsin’s 2025 hunt

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Even as the Wisconsin DNR’s elk management team winds down from the first bull hunting season in the Central Elk Zone, team leaders are – potentially – gearing up for the first cow season in Jackson County in the fall of 2025.
That’s the word out from the DNR’s elk committee when members met Thursday, Dec. 12, in Wausau to review 2024’s hunting seasons, population estimates, crop damage issues, and any other elk-related subjects.

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Dean Bortz: Let’s move Thanksgiving out of Wisconsin’s deer season

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This is a purely personal and selfish suggestion and one I’m making only because I think I’m growing cynical, ornery, and old – the old part maybe having something to do with the first two parts. I’ve been pondering this idea for the last goodly number of years – we have to start the gun deer season earlier or we have to move Thanksgiving out of the Wisconsin gun deer season.

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Wisconsin State Roundup: More crossbow hunters at least part of the reason for lower gun deer harvest in the north

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There’s always a temptation to do some dissecting of deer harvest numbers and what those numbers might mean once we get a look at the preliminary gun deer harvest totals and those from the early archery and crossbow seasons.
For a good while now, many hunters in northern Wisconsin have lamented their lack of success in some areas during the gun deer season. While many DNR officials maintain the northern deer herd situation is not as dire as made out by hunters, most everyone agrees that if there is a difference from now compared to, oh, 15 or 16 years ago, we’re likely talking about multiple causations, not just one or two.

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Dean Bortz: Campbellsport, Wis., citizens look ahead after poaching, animal-cruelty case rattles community

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I bet the fabric of the Fond du Lac County town of Campbellsport, Wis., can be found in every small Wisconsin community. That fabric is woven, over time, by the people who live in those small towns.
People who care. People who volunteer. People who take on projects – new parks, new schools, filling the rank and file of civic groups – to make their towns just a little bit better every year.

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State Roundup: Tough hunting for northern hunters, but ready to see what Wisconsin’s 2024 gun deer season brings

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Wisconsin’s 2024 gun deer season gets underway on Saturday, but it’s Thursday, Nov. 21, as we send this Wisconsin Outdoor News issue to the printer.
It was snowing in Oneida and Vilas counties this morning, but that snow turned to rain by 9:30 a.m., so, based on the forecast for the local counties, we’re not going to have any snow on the ground for opening morning – snow that would lighten the background and improved our chances of seeing deer on opening weekend and beyond.

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UPDATE: 3 misdemeanors filed against woman in Wisconsin deer poaching case

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A Brownsville woman allegedly involved in a southeastern Wisconsin deer poaching case faces three misdemeanor charges that could potentially result in $22,000 in fines and two years in jail if found guilty and maximum penalties applied.

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Dean Bortz: Wisconsin-made .45 air rifle claims first big game animal

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When Gov. Tony Evers signed the “air gun” bill, Wisconsin Act 115, into law in March, it was only a matter of time before someone used an air-powered shotgun to shoot a turkey, since the spring turkey season opened right on the heels of the bill signing.
But a deer, bear or elk? Well, Don Fitzmaurice, of Milton, has the distinction of being the first person – as far as we know – in Wisconsin to shoot a big game animal with an air rife.

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