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Dean Bortz

State Roundup: Frustration related to Wisconsin deer hunting has been building for years

Featured, Home Page News, Hunting, National Hunting, Opinion, Wisconsin /

There are a lot of threads sticking out of this rip that’s the 2023 gun deer season, so don’t make the mistake of grabbing one thread and pulling to its end, thinking you’ll find an answer to all questions surrounding our deer season and deer management program.
Who here remembers Deer 2000? That was a huge effort that sucked up a ton of volunteer and DNR staff hours. I don’t think I can tell you one major change that came out of the Deer 2000 process.

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University of Wisconsin students, staff work worthy cause with Green Bay wild rice restoration project

Featured, Nature Page & Night Sky, Opinion, Wisconsin /

A story about the Green Bay wild rice restoration project serves as one more reminder of just how fortunate we are here in Wisconsin to have so many volunteers who invest their time, talent, and income on natural resource projects. Those volunteers work right alongside conservation professionals when the situations allow so we can accomplish more for the natural resources of this state.

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Partnerships key in 10-year project dedicated to restoring wild rice along west shore of Wisconsin’s Green Bay

Featured, Home Page News, National News, Nature Page & Night Sky, News, Wisconsin /

A 10-year project to restore wild rice beds all along the west shore of Green Bay continued this fall as state and federal employees joined forces with a lot of volunteers from several directions to seed roughly 1,300 pounds of wild rice along the bay.
“It’s been a unique partnership to work on this project. I don’t think any of us could have done this alone. We’re planting quite a few sites along the west shore,” said Dave Halfmann, Wisconsin DNR wildlife biologist and property manager for the Green Bay West Shores Wildlife Area near Peshtigo.

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Wisconsin legislators schedule listening sessions with public after deer harvest drop in Northern Forest Zone

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Northern Wisconsin deer hunters looking at the buck kill decline from this season when compared to 2022 (down 26.6%) and the five-year average (down 14.3%) expected to see some sort of drop in three to five counties that experienced a difficult winter, but they find themselves short of answers across the rest of the Northern Forest Zone.
They’re not alone. The buck kill dropped in every management zone, but by low single digits of percent – nothing close to what was seen in the Northern Forest Zone. In fact, disappointment among deer hunters reached such a point that legislators in two areas of the state called for listening sessions.

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Wisconsin’s preliminary bear kill down sharply from 2022

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Even as we start parsing up the early archery season deer kill and 2023 opening weekend gun deer kill, we have an update from the DNR on preliminary harvest numbers from this fall’s bear season. Ironically or coincidentally, those preliminary bear kill numbers are trending with the deer kill. Down.

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Wisconsin family from Marathon County marks 54th season of deer hunting traditions

Featured, Features, Home Page News, Hunting, National Hunting, Wisconsin /

When the Wisconsin 2023 gun deer season kicks off on Saturday, Nov. 18, the hunting members of the Day family will mark their 54th year of chasing white-tailed deer on the family farm in eastern Marathon (pronounced Mar-a-tin locally) County.
I don’t know that Ken Day, of Wausau, is the official family chronicler, but he’s the family member who contacted the office some time back with a black-and-white photo from the 1970 deer season and that sort of started the ball rolling on the Day hunting story.

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Trapper in Wisconsin’s Price County catches and releases three wolves

Featured, Hunting, National Hunting, National News, News, Wisconsin /

A Price County trapper in Wisconsin made four wolf catches over the course of 10 days in October on a large dairy farm just east of the small town of Fifield.
Chuck Koshak, of Fifield, actually caught three wolves, two juveniles and one collared adult, but he caught the first wolf, a mostly black pup, a second time 10 days after catching it the first time on Oct. 20.

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