The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Forest Service plans to open what it calls an “operational service center” in Madison as part of a sweeping – and still somewhat mysterious – restructuring that will also move the agency’s national headquarters from Washington, D.C., to Salt Lake City, Utah, the USDA announced March 31.
USDA to open new Forest Service office in Madison Read More »
Approximately 20 people were arrested on Sunday, March 15 after a group of self-proclaimed “dog lovers” stormed a breeding facility in rural Dane County, Wisconsin.
The activists, many from out of state, bashed locks and climbed through windows to “rescue” beagles from the business.
Animal rights activists bust into Wisconsin facility, taking dogs Read More »
“In many cases, improvements are visible within days or weeks,” said Brad Heidel, executive director of the Wisconsin Waterfowl Association (WWA). “Far sooner than with many other types of habitat restoration. Opportunities often come from past human alterations to the landscape.
What to know about restoring wetlands for fish, fowl Read More »
Wisconsin’s Voluntary Public Access and Habitat Incentive Program (VPA-HIP) allows hunting and other recreational activities on roughly 32,000 acres of private land across the state. While supporters say the program is beneficial to landowners, outdoor enthusiasts and the greater ecosystem, federal funding that supports the program is in a state of limbo.
Federal funds for Wisconsin’s Voluntary Public Access program still in limbo Read More »
“Deer and other wildlife know the difference between ‘low grade hamburger’ and ‘prime ribeye,’ ” J. Wayne Fears said. “Your food plots need to be prime ribeye to attract and hold critters.”
Many people know Fears, an outdoor writer and scholar, as “The Food Plot Doctor” from the column he wrote for Whitetails Unlimited magazine over three decades. There are very few food plot questions Fears hasn’t heard.
These tips will help your deer food plots flourish Read More »
An explosion of yellow bass and the corresponding decline of other species in Crystal Lake has plagued what was once known far and wide as a “panfish factory.”
Sauk City’s Wayne Whitemarsh said a recent fisheree hosted by Schoepp’s Cottonwood Resort painted a grim picture of the way this unwanted invader has reduced local populations of more desirable game fish.
Wisconsin anglers lamenting surge of yellow bass in what was once a ‘panfish factory’ Read More »
Most successful kills take only a moment, accentuated by the boom of a gun or the thwack of an arrow. But as boxer Joe Frazier said, the real key to success is preparation. “If you cheated on that in the dark of morning, well, you’re going to get found out now, under the bright lights,” he said.
Hunting is no different. Fall success often hinges on spring site work.
These spring chores in the deer woods will make a difference come fall hunting season Read More »
Burnett County’s Yellow Lake sturgeon population has come a long way since the 1970s, thanks in part to a 2019 management plan and a number of regulation changes that came about since 1980.
With evolutionary roots stretching back to the Cretaceous Period and a morphology that hearkens back to the dinosaurs, lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens) are members of an iconic species wherever they live. And while they are considered threatened throughout much of their historic range in North America, Wisconsin possesses one of the largest self-sustaining populations of these “living fossils” in the world.
Wisconsin’s Yellow Lake sturgeon plan paying dividends Read More »
The United States is vast in geography and varied in climate. Every region struggles with its own distinct invasive or “interfering” species. Yet few plants are the bane of as many landowners and conservationists in as many places as buckthorn.
Common/European buckthorn (Rhamnus cathartica) and glossy buckthorn rode to the New World on the ships of immigrants in the 19th century.
Bane of the understory: Tips for battling buckthorn Read More »
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