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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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Wisconsin Wardens at Work: Don’t shine with bow, crossbow in vehicle

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

Nicholas Engelhardt, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) field warden, now in Columbia County, was working a deer shining detail with Sean Neverman, the warden supervisor of the Devil’s Lake team in Sauk County.
Engelhardt was stationed at Wisconsin Dells at the time this case materialized. The two wardens didn’t have to wait long after they arrived at a spot where they planned to watch for shining activity.

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Wisconsin Wardens are Work: Ben Mott works public/private land conflict in Waushara County

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

A private landowner and deer hunter was impressed when a Wisconsin DNR game warden, Ben Mott in Waushara County, took the time to work through an incident during the 2024 gun deer season.
Mott grew up in nearby Marquette County, went to UW-Stevens Point, and was first stationed in Milwaukee County 15 years ago. Two years later he transferred to Waushara County, where he has been the past 13 years.
“Two other wardens share tiny portions of Waushara County, but the rest is my district,” Mott said.

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Two Wisconsin deer hunters earn 2024 ethical hunter award

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

Two deer hunters, one an archer and the other a gun-deer hunter, received the 2024 Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Ethical Hunter Award, sponsored by Vortex Optics of Barneveld.
Eliot Babino, of Platteville, and Cody Kabus, of Independence, stepped forward to be congratulated for their ethical acts during a presentation at Vortex Optics headquarters on April 17.

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Wisconsin Wardens at Work: Trespass call leads to multiple citations

Featured, Hunting, National Hunting, Wisconsin /

The Green Lake County Sheriff’s Department asked Green Lake County Wisconsin DNR Conservation Warden Brad Latza to assist in a trespassing complaint and then handed the case over to Latza when the evidence showed illegal hunting had likely occurred.
Dodge County DNR Conservation Warden Ryan Mannes assisted Latza because some of the violations likely occurred in his county, too. What started as a case of trespassing for the sheriff’s department to deal with turned out to be much more complicated and involved illegal hunting going back several years.

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