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Volunteers with Wisconsin’s Rock Creek Disabled Outdoors build friendships through helping others hunt

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Over the course of more than a quarter century, hundreds of disabled persons have experienced the thrill of the hunt thanks to a non-profit based in the rural hamlet of Willard in Clark County, Wis. Many have thanked the volunteers who make it happen, but there is one expression of gratitude that still rings in the ears of Molly Luther, who has volunteered for Rock Creek Disabled Outdoors for 12 years and now serves as its secretary:
“Thank you for treating us like people,” the man said.

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42 years later, these trout habitat ‘tools’ still at work in Wisconsin

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Anglers wading and floating small trout rivers and streams this month may not even notice them, but LUNKERS structures have – and still do – play a key role in stream management.
“It’s not exactly poetic, but it sure took over,” chuckled John “Duke” Welter, referring to an acronym that doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue: LUNKERS, or Little Underwater Neighborhood Keepers Encompassing Rheotactic Salmonids.”
In more palatable terms, LUNKERS are wooden structures built and placed into Wisconsin streams for more than 40 years.

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Columbus archers win all three NASP age divisions in Wisconsin state tourney

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When every quiver had been emptied, the Columbus School District’s elementary, middle, and high school teams all earned first-place finishes, sweeping all levels of the 2025 Wisconsin National Archery in the Schools Program (NASP) State Archery Tournament in Wisconsin Dells March 28-29. 

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Passion for hunting and fishing still burns bright for Wisconsin’s Marie Skic at 97

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In the year Marathon County’s Marie Skic was born, the world was a very different place. Charles Lindbergh was flying across the Atlantic for the first time, penicillin had just been invented, and a film called “Steamboat Willie” introduced the nation to a mouse called Mickey. 
Much has changed since then, but Skic is still here, and at 97 years old she remains one of Wisconsin’s most avid hunters and anglers. DNR tag sales show she is one of the oldest, if not the oldest, female hunters in the state, depending on what season it is.

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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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