UW-Madison graduate Meghan Henry conducted a survey on how hunters make a decision on when to take a good shot opportunity at a buck during the Wisconsin gun deer season in 2022 and 2023. Much of the information from her study was recently reviewed by the National Deer Association, with a summary listed on this page.
Dean Bortz: Why, or when, do our Wisconsin deer hunters squeeze the trigger? Read More »
It’s almost getting to the point where a fisherman might ask why we even have any closed seasons anymore.
Wisconsin’s stream trout season closure has been pushed into October. This year, on April 4, our inland stream trout “keep” season opened, and will continue to do so the first Saturday of each April. The winter trout release season opened in January and ran through Friday, April 3, then gave way to the new keep season.
State Roundup: No shortage of opportunities for Wisconsin anglers these days Read More »
I think there is a secondary reason why it wouldn’t hurt to hear from Hyun right about now. I hear we’re going have the Natural Resources Board polling sportsmen on their level of support for license fee increases and dedicated alternate funding on Monday, April 13, during the annual spring fish and game hearings.
State Roundup: A few recommendations for Wisconsin DNR after turkey tag fiasco Read More »
Conservation Congress delegates have been looking at a dedicated funding source for the Wisconsin DNR’s fish and wildlife programs and the game warden force since at least the early 1990s.
Bob Ellingson served as congress chair from 1995-98. During that time Ellingson went to Missouri to ask Missouri Department of Conservation officials how they were able to get citizens to support adding a 1/8 of 1% sales tax to support conservation work in that state.
It was probably around late winter of 1972 or 1973 that our grandfather cut a skidding trail through our cedar swamp in southern Ashland County so my brother and I could make some money by cutting balsam pulpwood.
He built a wooden dray that he pulled behind his Farmall H tractor. Loading and unloading was done by hand by my brother and me. That’s when I gained an appreciation for chopper mitts.
Dean Bortz: Let’s talk about a timber sale Read More »
Apparently Mark Twain had absolutely no idea what kind of concerns and consternations he would create some folks in today’s society when he wrote his story, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, in 1865.
You can read Tim Eisele’s news story from the February Wisconsin Natural Resources Board (NRB) meeting at which NRB members approved a request from the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) to ban all turtle and frog races or contests (actually includes all amphibians and reptiles – not limited to turtles and frogs) in Wisconsin.
The .41 Great Lakes, a mostly new straight-wall cartridge has a great story behind it. I suppose it should still be considered a wildcat round, but the originators, friends John Upp and Larry Miller, both of Adrian, Mich., are on the verge of “big-timing” their round.
I had a couple of questions after editing Hansen’s article, so I found Upp’s email and sent a message with a couple of questions.
State Roundup: .41 Great Lakes is a great cartridge with a great story behind it Read More »
Former Bluffland Whitetail Association President Taylor Bestor, 41, faces up to 10 felony charges in Fillmore County Circuit Court over the alleged disappearance of $77,834.87 from the association’s financial accounts.
According to court documents filed with the Fillmore County attorney’s office, Bestor allegedly made 968 unauthorized transactions from Bluffland Whitetail Association (BWA) accounts between June 28, 2023, and Oct. 3, 2025, totaling $77,834.87.
Anyone who has spent some time in the Madison area has likely seen Geraldine Francis Klus bombing around the beltline in her Ford Explorer painted in winter camo and bearing a license plate that simply reads, “Raga.”
A grandchild who was just learning to speak couldn’t say grandma. It came out Raga instead, and it stuck. Klus, now 88, has a story to tell from her 2023 Forest County bear hunt at age 85, and, really, her life in general.
Dean Bortz: The inspiring story of ‘Raga’ and her big 2023 Wisconsin bear Read More »
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