State budget moves forestry HQ north
Forestry mill tax, DNR magazine set to disappear.
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First week of March set aside for Wisconsin Reads Leopold events
Readings of Aldo Leopold’s essays and showings of ‘Green Fire’ scheduled around the state the first week of March
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NRB OKs use of ‘overnight’ treestands
Also made it harder for game wardens to enforce late hunting by changing “hunting hours” to “shooting hours,” and asked the governor and legislature to once again allow sportsmen to cross railroad tracks on foot.
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14 Wisconsin conservation groups asked legislators for targeted license increases
Increases in six licenses or stamps, along with pulling sportsmen’s dollars from commercial fisheries, would provide an estimated $14.8 million for the DNR
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Wisconsin’s Natural Resources Board takes up railroad issue, asks for return to foot-traffic crossing of rails
Natural Resources Board also polling sportsmen on question of creating a muskie tagging system that would limit anglers to keeping just one muskie per season
Wisconsin’s CWD expert, Mike Samuel, has suggestions for DNR and Natural Resources Board on white-tailed deer health
Wisconsin’s top CWD researcher retiring at the end of January
Tighter ‘laker’ limits for Superior anglers
Board adopts emergency rule for sport anglers in Apostle Islands area that allows for two-fish bag limit, with a 15-inch size limit, but only one of those fish may be longer than 25 inches
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Northern deer zone kill up big while rest of Wisconsin down a bit
Madison — More than 300,000 deer have been electronically registered through all 2016 deer seasons so far, including 97,892 bucks from the gun season, the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) reported to the Natural Resources Board (NRB). At the board’s Dec. 14 meeting, Kevin Wallenfang, DNR big game ecologist, said that a grand total of
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Wisconsin’s Natural Resource Board makes appropriate changes in 2016 to meet open meetings law requirements
With changes, no danger of natural resources management issues escaping public review
