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Sunday, November 3rd, 2024

Breaking News for

Sportsmen Since 1968

Sunday, November 3rd, 2024

Breaking News for

Sportsmen Since 1968

Jerry Davis

Benjamin Gruber assigned to Wisconsin’s well-used Devil’s Lake State Park

Many of Wisconsin’s DNR field wardens travel to work at locations where resources are being highly used and enjoyed.
Benjamin Gruber, DNR field warden, is assigned to Devil’s Lake State Park in Sauk County, a place where many users recreate. Devil’s Lake State Park is Wisconsin’s largest, some 9,217 acres, including 360-acre Devil’s Lake. During the course of a year, as many as 2 million visitors may visit the park to hunt, fish, hike, camp, bird watch, canoe, climb, photograph, and picnic.

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Wardens at Work: One thing leads to another in Wisconsin’s Sawyer County deer poaching case

Wisconsin’s 2022 deer seasons had closed when Aaron Koshatka received a call that a deer had allegedly been shot with a rifle on the last day of the archery season, Jan. 9, 2023. At the time, Koshatka was a Sawyer County DNR game warden. He now works in Polk County.
“The party did a great job in providing information. Also, there was fresh snow, making tracks and blood clear. The temperatures were below freezing, helping to better pinpoint events, too,” Koshatka said.

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Wisconsin Wardens at Work: Zone 1 turkey hunter gets surprise call in Zone 3

A licensed hunter pursuing turkeys in the Black River State Forest in Jackson County, Wis., on opening day of the very first season, April 17, heard an unusual call. More accurately, the hunter received an unusual call. The subject answered – not with a diaphragm or slate call, but by using his voice while speaking into his own cell phone.
On the other end of the wireless line was a Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) field warden, Theodore Doellman, who was just trying to get a fix on the hunter’s location, understanding the man would be decked out in camouflage.

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Wisconsin Wardens at Work: Violators caught on their own trail cameras

Hans Walleser, a Wisconsin DNR field warden, is right where he wants to be – close to family and friends, close to his hometown, and where there are great varieties of resources to protect. Walleser grew up in Harper’s Ferry, Iowa, and was schooled at Kee High School in Lansing, Iowa, and UW-Stevens Point for his bachelors of science degree.
During the 2023 gun deer season, Walleser received a call regarding trail cameras and treestands left over night on the Rush Creek State Natural Area.

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Unusual littering case from Wisconsin involves dead minnows dumped by bait dealers

It would be great if everyone treated public and private land as though they owned it. Tires, old TVs, deer carcasses, duck parts, and fish heads and skins have a proper disposal grounds or cemetery. Anything less may be littering.
Madi Bryan, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) field warden in the eastern half of St. Croix County, received a hotline complaint in early 2024 that someone was dumping fish along a remote road in the area she patrols.

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Recapping a Wisconsin warden’s first gun-deer season opening day

Wisconsin’s nine-day gun-deer season opener is different from any other day afield for a DNR game warden, including small game hunting, May fishing openers, and waterfowl seasons.
DNR field wardens are assigned a permanent station that covers a county, or a portion of a county or counties. Some wardens are assigned to the Great Lakes. Even this division of responsibilities differs greatly across the 72 counties, state parks, and large waters of Wisconsin.

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Wisconsin panfish angler in Oneida County catches a break

Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) field wardens may have a good idea who a likely suspect may be simply by the body language they telegraph across the ice, even from a quarter-mile away.
Warden Audrey Royce knew she wanted to work in law enforcement, protecting natural resources. When she first visited an area of Oneida County, she knew it was the place she would like to be stationed.

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Wardens at Work: Wisconsin hunter used poison to ‘protect’ deer bait from rodents

Leasing land, preparing to hunt during the 2023 deer season, and not seeing enough deer does not grant anyone permission to set up multiple bait sites and protect the apples and corn from rodents by setting out poison.
That’s what Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Conservation Warden Kyle Ziembo found in Marathon County when he followed up on information from a hotline call that came in prior to the gun deer season opener on Saturday, Nov. 18, 2023.

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Wisconsin DNR Warden of the Year Bryan Lockman has seen a little bit of everything on the job

On Sept. 9 DNR Warden Supervisor Bryan Lockman received “The Watch,” a gold pocket watch given each year to the Wisconsin DNR’s game warden of the year by the Noyes family.
A couple months ago, Lockman received a surprise invitation from his then-supervisor, Korey Trowbridge, to join him after hours. Little did Lockman know what the invite was for, as when a warden of the year is notified of winning the Haskell Noyes Efficiency Award, his or her supervisor gets the honor of arranging it.

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