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University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point endowment as much for students, as for bears

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

We’re going to back the truck up a little bit in this spot this week to a topic from the last issue – the UW-Stevens Point College of Natural Resources (CNR) black bear project that received a $1 million endowment that should carry the project into the future as far as we can see. There is a rich history surrounding this project that reaches way back to the days of Dr. Ray Anderson, who got the ball rolling more than 45 years ago.

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Trade lakes’ multi-species fishery getting some help in Wisconsin

Lake Profile, Lake Profile, Wisconsin /

The local DNR fisheries team ran a survey on Big Trade Lake and Little Trade Lake in the early spring and late spring of 2021 to assess panfish and game fish populations.
The team views the pair as one lake for survey purposes. The team ran fyke (trap) nets for 10 days starting April 15 that year. Fyke nets capture early-spawning game fish species such as northern pike, walleyes, and muskies. Electrofishing runs after the water warms a bit later in the spring, and is done along shoreline shallows aimed at bass and panfish.

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Wisconsin State Roundup: What’s going to happen to Natural Resources Board appointees?

Fishing, Hunting, Opinion, Wisconsin /

I’d imagine anyone who tracks the Wisconsin Natural Resources Board (NRB) is waiting to see what’s going to happen to four of five non-confirmed NRB members during the full Senate floor session scheduled to end Thursday, Oct. 19.

As most of you likely know, on the afternoon of Thursday, Sept. 28, the Senate Committee on Sporting Heritage voted 3 to 2 to reject four of Gov. Tony Evers’ five NRB appointees. That recommendation now goes to the full Senate for possible action, should Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu see fit to act on such.

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A $10,543 fine rendered in Wisconsin Columbia County elk case from 2021

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

A Portage man who shot a bull elk on Nov. 20, 2021, opening day of the gun-deer season that year, finally saw his case adjudicated in Columbia County Circuit Court last month with a sentence that requires $10,543 to cover a fine and court costs.
Chase Emerson Steinhoff, 26, of Portage, was placed on probation for 18 months and must retake a hunter education course. He must submit a DNA sample to the court and his hunting and trapping license privileges were revoked for five years.

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University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point black bear project gets $1 million endowment

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

A UW-Stevens Point College of Natural Resources (CNR) black bear research program that lived on a shoe-string budget its first 46 years can now roll on forever thanks to a $1 million endowment pulled together last month by kindred spirits all strapped into the same harness.
Multiple names and personalities worked together for many months to finally focus potential funding sources in one direction and deserve credit for pulling off this black bear endowment. But readers will quickly recognize one name – Dr. Christine Thomas, the retired dean of the UW-Stevens Point CNR, who linked a number of individuals and groups together to make this $1 million a reality.

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Want advice on bowhunting elk? Don’t ask Dean Bortz

Featured, Hunting, National Hunting, Wisconsin /

Wanna know what I’m never going to do? Write a book about how to bowhunt for elk.
It’s become fairly obvious that I don’t know how to bowhunt elk and I don’t think anyone would buy a two-page book on that topic. You’d think a guy would be able to write more than two pages on that topic after bowhunting elk for, what, 11 seasons now of trying? Before writing a book a guy would want to have photos from multiple successful hunts, right? No dead elk, no photos.

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Wisconsin State Roundup: Senate committee rejects four of five appointees to Natural Resources Board

Featured, Hunting, Opinion, Wisconsin /

I finished the Oct. 6, No. 20 Issue of WON on the morning of Thursday, Sept. 28, from elk camp in central Montana. That print issue should hit subscribers’ mailboxes starting Monday or Tuesday, Oct. 2 and Oct. 3.
I was able to stream the Sept. 27 Natural Resources Board meeting that evening by driving into a small town 10 miles off and stealing wi-fi from the one store in town. I wrote the first segment of the Issue No. 20 State Roundup column below based on what I heard from the Sept. 27 NRB meeting. Late morning of Friday, Sept. 29, after a morning hunt, I traveled 40 miles to a larger town and as I picked up cell signal I received texts stating that Sen. Rob Stafsholt and his senate committee members on yesterday afternoon Thursday, Sept. 28, rejected four of the five appointees, leaving only Paul Buhr remaining on the NRB out of that quintet.

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