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Here’s how a steady stream of data helps shape Wisconsin fisheries

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The Wisconsin DNR’s Office of Applied Science conducts an array of research that delves into the state’s fisheries, studying everything from trout trends and panfish mortality, to muskie growth, and beaver impacts.
The team’s work spans from the cold waters of Lake Superior to the streams of southern Wisconsin. Their work guides policies that determine the fate of the state’s waters and the many creatures calling it home, with wide-ranging implications for everyone from the most casual angler to the most devout fly fisherman.

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Wisconsin man builds incredible ‘Possum Lodge’ full of hunting, angling memories

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Wayne Whitemarsh’s “Possum Lodge” is many things. Man cave. Wildlife museum. Hall of taxidermy. A portal into North America’s wild past. It’s a curated collection of every conceivable pelt, trap, mount and lure, each with a poignant backstory Whitemarsh can summon and recount at will.
A visiting 3-year-old looked up in awe and stated: “It’s like being inside a tackle box!”

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A day behind a beagle hunting bunnies is hard to beat

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“This is kind of a gentleman’s hunt,” said houndsman Mark Beres, a grin spanning ear-to-ear. “Though no one ever accused me of being a gentleman.”
It’s a crisp February day at Walking Iron County Park in Mazomanie, Wis. Weightless “sugar snow” scattered at the slightest hint of a breeze, so tracking conditions were difficult and most of the rabbits hunkered down under heavy cover. But Ditto, Margo, and Happy, a stout trio of beagles owned by Beres, were thoroughly undaunted. Hour-after-hour, they worked the brush.

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Wisconsin forester spearheads movement to stop landowners from using high fences, creating “gray area” game farms

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Poet Robert Frost famously wrote that good fences make good neighbors. When it comes to hunting, not everyone shares Frost’s sentiment. 
A forester and former Jackson County Conservation Congress delegate in Wisconsin alleges that some landowners are putting up high fences to restrict the movement of wild deer, then either hunting those deer themselves or charging others money to hunt “wild” whitetails on their properties.

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Drones open new frontier in Wisconsin waterfowl research

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Assessing waterfowl and their habitat can be tough work that often involves waders, binoculars, and owning a temperament that turns wading through muck into fun.
In other cases, it requires an airplane flying at more than 100 mph high above the Earth, with those aboard trying to get a clear view of life on the ground. Now, though, a new tool – drones – is changing the waterfowl biologist’s world. Aerial drones are playing a key role in examining Wisconsin watersheds and the birds that call them home.

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What’s the extent of invasive silver carp’s presence in Wisconsin’s lower Chippewa and Black rivers? Officials working to find out

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In July, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) began receiving ominous reports from anglers who saw fish leaping high in the air at the Dells dam on the lower Chippewa River in Eau Claire. By Late October biologists made it official, confirming that silver carp, an Asian invasive species, have been detected in portions of the lower Chippewa River and lower Black River in western Wisconsin.
While biologists say it might only be a low population and there is no evidence of reproduction, they are using the opportunity to remind people about carp, and about Asian species in general, in local waters.

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Wisconsin 10-year-old tags Sawyer County bull, also age 10

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A 10-year-old boy from Barneveld was among the eight winners of this year’s elk tag lottery in Wisconsin. While he only weighs in around 75 pounds, the young hunter spent most of his summer training to harvest the state’s largest game animal, eventually shooting a 6-by-6, 10-year-old bull in the northern Wisconsin Clam Lake Elk Range.

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