Legal light came and went. A solitary, camo-clad deer hunter lugged his gear over a series of downed trees on a path leading out of the Rome Pond State Wildlife Area near the town of Sullivan. As he neared the entrance, he was illuminated by seven headlamps heading into Rome Pond.
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Board (NRB) on Wednesday, Oct. 23, has met with opposition from those who say commercial trawling would threaten a recovering species, detract from sport fishing and adversely impact local economies. In particular, the idea has met with criticism from sporting anglers and charter operations.
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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.
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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Starting this season, Wisconsin hunters will receive an either-sex replacement tag if they harvest an antlerless deer that tests positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD) in Wisconsin.
The tag will be good for the 2024 and 2025 seasons. It will be valid in the same zone where the initial deer was shot and not specific to hunting tool. Replacement authorizations were previously only for the same type of deer that tested positive: a buck tag for a buck, a doe tag for a doe.
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On Valentine’s Day in the winter of 2017, an 8-month-old buck was captured using a drop net in Iowa County, Wis. He weighed 90 pounds and tested negative, via a rectal biopsy, for chronic wasting disease.
A team of researchers fitted the fawn with an expandable GPS collar, designed with elastic and pleats that would pop and allow it to grow along with the deer’s neck as he matured. They called him Buck 5700, and he wore the collar for three full breeding seasons, giving researchers valuable data about how and where he moved during 2017, 2018 and 2019.
Eight years ago, researchers began fitting roughly 800 wild Wisconsin deer with GPS collars to track movement. The Southwest Wisconsin Chronic Wasting Disease, Deer and Predator Study is the largest CWD analysis the state has ever undertaken, aiming to better understand how the animals live, move and die.
The vast library of data they gathered hasn’t even been fully published yet, but it already sheds new light on how bucks move during the rut, and more.
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