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Customers can access online license sales at: www.dnr.state.wi.us, by clicking “Licenses, Permits & Registrations.” The special application fee can be paid online, or through an electronic license vendor, or over the phone at (877) 945-4236.

Mar. 2: Annual Banquet at Golden Valley VFW. For more info call Pat & Ruth Moore at 763-413-9023 April 28: Turkey Shoot at LeBlanc’s Rice Creek hunting. Call Jim Vorderbruggen at 763-497-3330 for more info. May 5: Turkey Shoot at LeBlanc’s Rice Creek hunting. Call Jim Vorderbruggen at 763-497-3330 for more info. May 18: Lake

Associate Editor Washington, D.C. The Senate has given up trying to agree on an overhaul of farm programs for 2001, which pushes the issue into an election year in which control of the chamber is at stake. Majority Democrats were unable last week to muster the 60 votes necessary to bring a farm bill to

Most lakes have just started to freeze up. Ice conditions are thin but it won’t take more than a few nights of cold weather to get a few anglers out. Call ahead as ice conditions are changing daily. Boat House Sport & Tackle (507) 235-6931 FARIBAULT AREA Most lakes in the area froze over late

Field Editor St. Paul Reaching consensus on ATV routes across lands to be designated as Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs) is the task of three, eight-member groups formed in three, northwestern Minnesota counties. “ATV connecting trails are the only remaining issue that needs to be addressed before these lands are designated as WMAs by the Legislature,”

Jan. 11-13: Midwest Walleye Expo at the State Fir Park in Milwaukee, WI. Fri.: 3 p.m. – 7 p.m.; Sat.: 10 a.m. – 7 p.m.; Sun.: 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Adm.: $6 for adults and kids 12 and under free. Jan. 11-13: 31st Annual Rockford, IL RV, Camping & Travel Show at the Metro

ALEXANDRIA AREA Little Mary Lake is producing sunfish in less than 12 feet of water on wax worms and larvae. Look to Lake Reno for walleyes in 14 feet of water with jigging spoons or shiner minnows working best. Ice depths really vary on the lakes in this area and the spots people are fishing

6 p.m., at the Public Works Building behind the Alliant Energy Center, located off John Nolan Dr. & Rimrock Rd., Madison.Contact Ken Johnson at 608-275-3243.

Dec. 31: Late archery deer season closes. Pheasant season closes. Ruffed grouse season closes in the Northern Zone. Frog season closes. Hungarian partridge season closes. Bobcat hunting and trapping season closes. Mink trapping season closes in the northern, central and southern zones. Fisher trapping season closes.