The public has an opportunity to provide input for the next 10-year state parks plan through an online survey on the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources website. The survey will be open until 11:59 p.m. Aug. 4.
The survey asks 21 questions about citizens’ visits to state parks, their opinions on conditions at the parks and future desires for the parks.
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On March 30, a lake sturgeon was detected swimming through the Mequon-Thiensville fish passage in the Milwaukee River heading upstream toward Grafton. It is likely the farthest upstream a sturgeon has traveled in the river in more that 175 years.
That news was conveyed May 5 at a news conference at Estabrook Park in Shorewood. Staffers from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Environmental Protection Agency, Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District, Milwaukee County Parks and Milwaukee Riverkeeper were on hand to celebrate the milestone.
Effort at Estabrook Falls opens sturgeon migration in Wisconsin’s Milwaukee River Read More »
Fishing for walleyes in Fond du Lac County’s Long Lake has been a grueling effort lately, but anglers can take heart with some help on the way in the form of about 750,000 walleye fry that were stocked in the lake last week.
The fry were hatched in a new Walleyes For Tomorrow (WFT) hatchery trailer that was placed on the south end of the lake this spring. It is the first time a hatchery trailer has been used at Long Lake, which covers 423 acres in Fond du Lac and Sheboygan counties.
Fond du Lac County volunteers build ‘walleye wagon’ for Long Lake Read More »
Only 26 sportsmen registered at the Washington County April 13 spring fish and game hearing. That compares to 95 attendees in 2019, the last pre-COVID in-person hearing.
After presentations from the DNR, an election was held for two positions on the Conservation Congress. Larry Wehrheim was unopposed and was re-elected to a three-year term. Tashina Peplinski was unopposed and was re-elected to a two-year term.
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The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) issued 15,245 bear harvest authorizations (kill tags) for the 2026 fall bear season. Some of those recipients are considering a transfer of their tag to a qualified person.
Qualified recipients include minors, defined as a person less than 18 years of age at the time of the transfer application. A tag may also be transferred to persons with a valid class A, B, C or D disability permit, a person serving on active military duty, or someone who has been awarded a Purple Heart Award.
Wisconsin DNR has process allowing transfer of bear ‘kill tags’ Read More »
The bill that would have created a sandhill crane hunting season in Wisconsin died quietly March 17 when the State Senate adjourned its last regular session without voting on the proposal.
Past votes in meetings, hearings, and a vote on the Assembly floor on bills that would have created a season (Senate Bill SB 112 and the Assembly Bill AB 117) passed on a partisan basis with Republicans in favor and Democrats against.
Sandhill crane season comes up short in Wisconsin Read More »
A bill to enact a Wisconsin sandhill crane season passed by voice vote in the State Assembly on
Feb. 19 and moves on to the State Senate for consideration, while two bills addressing wake boat operation died.
It was a hectic and unpredictable day in the Assembly and Senate as a bill to create a sandhill crane season and bills regarding wake boat regulations – one favoring industry and one favoring local control – were debated and voted on.
Hannah Stolz of the town of Wayne, Wis., in Washington County was judged to have the best mount at the 2023 National Taxidermists Association Convention held July 20-23 in Sioux falls, S.D.
The convention had 103 competitors from 25 states who entered a total of 245 mounts in the competition. Those numbers were better than the 2022 convention that had 85 competitors and 189 mounts. Stolz’s mount of a grey crowned crane, a species native to Africa, received awards for Breakthrough Best of Show, Best Bird in the Masters and North American Champion.
Stolz has practiced taxidermy for seven years. She is basically self-taught.
The Wisconsin Waterfowl Association (WWA) obtained a $106,000 grant from Fund for Lake Michigan to evaluate hydrology at Jackson Marsh in Washington County and to develop a restoration plan for habitat lost caused by high water levels on the property.
Fund for Lake Michigan was established in 2008 to resolve a conflict concerning the Oak Creek Power Plant and Elm Road Generating Station. The agreement from that dispute provides $4 million annually from 2011 through 2035 to fund water quality projects.
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