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Wisconsin youths take aim at dove hunting

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Lee DeBruin and his son Blake, 13, drove more than 200 miles in September to be students in the only learn-to-hunt-doves event registered with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) R3 program.
“Quality time together was as much a motivator as learning how to hunt a new species for both of us,” Lee said.
“It was fun, and I got birds,” Blake said, with a wide grin revealing shiny braces, as he held up three mourning doves.

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Chairman Rob Bohmann shares thoughts with Wisconsin Conservation Congress delegates as he steps down

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As Rob Bohmann stepped away from his chairmanship position of the Wisconsin Conservation Congress after logging a cumulative run of nine years in the harness, he looked around the convention hall and offered some thoughts to those who will follow him.
In his farewell speech, he thanked all 360 congress delegates from all 72 counties in 11 districts and urged them to focus on their shared love of the outdoors, not their differences.

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Wisconsin DNR Secretary addresses audit and finances

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Grassroots conversations about sustainable, long-term Department of Natural Resources (DNR) program funding are continuing across Wisconsin even after DNR Secretary Dr. Karen Hyun addressed that topic with Conservation Congress delegates at their state convention in Green Bay.
“I continue to believe that we need to pursue long term sustainable solutions to adequately fund our fish and wildlife activities in Wisconsin,” she said.
Hyun also talked about the recent DNR audit.

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14-year-old from Mequon earns Wisconsin Conservation Congress youth bear tag

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Stuart Szelmeczki, 14, of Mequon, is going bear hunting this fall. Conservation Congress District Leadership Council member Mike Rogers, of Merrimac, presented the special Conservation Congress learn-to-hunt (LTH) bear tag to Szelmeczki in front of the congress’s statewide conference in May.
Congress and other conservation organizations each year receive a bear harvest tag through the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources’ (DNR) learn-to-hunt bear program started in 2005.

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Wisconsin Conservation Congress has new leadership

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At its annual convention, the Conservation Congress discussed key resource issues, voted on about 44 spring hearing questions, presented awards, added to its Hall of Fame, and elected Paul Reith, 49, of Dane County, to fill the chair vacancy created when Rob Bohmann, of Racine, did not seek re-election.
Reith had been serving as the congress vice-chair. During its May 14-16 meetings at Tundra Lodge, delegates also elected Michael Britton, of Rice Lake, as vice-chair, and re-elected Reed Kabelowsky, of Manitowoc, as secretary.

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Wisconsin angler is pulling thick fish from incredibly shallow depths under the ice

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When ice fishing, Quinn Erdmann consistently catches big northern pike and walleyes in the shallowest water possible, often in as little as 8 inches of water below the ice.
“I get as close to shore as possible and look for big flat areas,” he said. “I’m not looking for weed lines or drop-offs. I believe the big predators have learned they can push baitfish into areas where the bottom and ice come together to block an escape.”
Erdmann, 26, of Slinger, Wis., gets strange looks from others walking or driving past him as they head for deeper water.

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Wisconsin learn-to-hunt days recruit new hunters with a local and international impact

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Wisconsin’s Bloomington Area Sportsman’s Club and local landowners hosted Grant County Outdoor Sports Alliance’s (GCOSA) learn-to-hunt day for pheasants on Oct. 20, with 22 kids and adults, including nine University of Wisconsin-Madison international students from Africa, Asia, and South America.
GCOSA volunteers also hosted a squirrel day the following weekend at Stitzer Sportsman’s Club with some of the same students.

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Wisconsin 10-pointer is an antlered doe… or is it?

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Lancaster high schooler Georgia Vesperman and her dad, Jerry, were surprised when they rolled over the Wisconsin 10-pointer she had dropped at 260 yards during the 2023 gun season. It had no visible male genitalia. They looked under its tail and found what you would expect for a doe, not a buck.
Jacob Vesperman is Georgia’s cousin. He said evidence already had him questioning the gender of this antlered deer.
“The history with this deer started about three years before my cousin Georgia shot it,” he said.

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Bull elk hunters go four for four in first Jackson County, Wis., hunt

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All four hunters who drew a once-in-a-lifetime elk tag in the Black River Falls zone of central Wisconsin were successful.
Two of them, Dryden Watry, of Green Lake, and Daniel “D.J.” Jolliffe, of Wisconsin Rapids, were among the 7,750 applicants for that zone, but they followed different paths to Jackson County elk-hunting success – one hunting private land, the other public land.

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