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Wisconsin Wardens at Work: Iowa County warden steps in to return wallet

Featured, Fishing, Wisconsin /

It is common for Wisconsin DNR field wardens to work together with local, county, and state law enforcement agencies. Often one agency, particularly among wardens, have equipment that another agency may not have.
This situation was not an emergency, serious crime, nor accident, but one that shows how wardens might best handle something involving outdoors enthusiasts.

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Wisconsin Wardens at Work: Recreation wardens work boat, snowmobile, ATV/UTV incidents

Featured, Nature Page & Night Sky, Wisconsin /

Kirk Konichek, now a recreation warden with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and stationed in Viroqua, is not far from where he grew up.
He graduated from Prairie du Chien High School and then attended Fox Valley Technical College in Appleton. He was with the Richland Center Police Department and Crawford County Sheriff’s Department over the course of nine years.

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Wisconsin Wardens at Work: Man pulled from Menomonee River Feb. 28

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

The diversity of tasks and responsibilities fielded by Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources wardens, often in cooperation with other law enforcement agencies, are huge in large Wisconsin cities.
Adam Strehlow, Erik Anderson, and Logan Allen, all DNR wardens in Milwaukee County, found themselves working with Milwaukee Police Department officers on a cold winter night in an attempt to save a Green Bay man, 52, who ended up in the Menomonee River on Feb. 28.

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Wisconsin Wardens at Work: Trout anglers survive chilly Devil’s Lake plunge

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

Wisconsin DNR Field Warden Andrew Amundsen’s first station, after spending several months working in the DNR’s community service area, was at Devil’s Lake State Park in Sauk County. Most of Amundsen’s duties are at the park, but he does, from time-to-time, work in the field as a Sauk County game warden.

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Wisconsin Wardens at Work: Don’t spray shoreline vegetation without permit

Featured, Nature Page & Night Sky, Wisconsin /

Jesse Ashton, Polk County conservation warden since 2014, received an email from Polk County Land and Water Department, the county’s environmental section involved in zoning and water quality. The land and water department was alerting Ashton that a Bone Lake resident at the address provided in the email had likely treated off-shore vegetation with a herbicide.

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Wisconsin Wardens at Work: Road-strutting tom too tempting to pass up

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

A turkey hunter allowed his temptation to override his ethics this past spring. A bystander decided to report the situation to Wisconsin DNR Conservation Warden Dylan Belisle – in person.
Belisle was in southern Barron County when a turkey hunting complaint arose in the form of a tap on his truck window. Belisle was parked on the roadside dealing with reports on a previous case when a local person came up to his truck window and started with, “I saw something yesterday that I knew I should let a warden know about.”

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Wisconsin Wardens at Work: Landowner hunting exemptions do have limits

Featured, Hunting, National Hunting, Wisconsin /

Exceptions for Wisconsin landowners hunting rabbits and squirrels on their property are not always well understood or are often overlooked.
In part, the hunting regulations for the fall of 2024 and spring of 2025 state, “The owner or occupant of any land and members of the family may, without a license and subject to all other restrictions except seasons, hunt their own property for rabbit and squirrel year-round.”
Cross a fence, even with permission, or go onto state land, or enter another’s land, and now that landowner needs a small game license to shoot rabbits because he is off his own land.

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Wisconsin wardens at work: Getting to the (ginseng) root of a problem

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

Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) conservation warden Shawna McDowell was assigned to the Vernon County station in 2005 after spending three years in Rock County.
She worked for the Iowa DNR for six years before being hired by the Wisconsin DNR. McDowell will officially retire at the end of 2025. Wild ginseng, Wisconsin’s state herb, grows in Vernon County and most southern and southwestern Wisconsin counties.

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