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Wisconsin’s fall turkey ‘tag’ totals remain same; hen research providing important data

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The number of fall turkey harvest authorizations available for 2025 in Wisconsin will not change from last fall, based on the recommendation from the DNR Turkey Advisory Committee.
Meeting at the Sandhill Wildlife Area on July 8, committee members decided to continue issuing one authorization with each fall turkey hunting license (which last year totaled 81,682) and making a total of 14,000 bonus authorizations available for zones 1, 2, 3 and 4.

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Sawyer County land swap solves trespass issue within Wisconsin state forest

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Under the title of “always get a survey before building,” the Wisconsin Natural Resources Board (NRB) approved the exchange of a small parcel of land within the Flambeau River State Forest in order to resolve a homeowner trespass situation.
Terry Bay, DNR Bureau of Facilities and Lands director, proposed that the DNR exchange one acre of state land for 6.7 acres of land owned by Larry and Debra Lucht, of Loyal.

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Wisconsin’s recent trend in rooster numbers best in years

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Spring surveys showed an increasing trend for pheasants, especially in northwest Wisconsin.
Chris Pollentier, DNR research scientist, reported at the July 1 meeting of the DNR Pheasant Advisory Committee, that pheasant observations were above the five-year average for the second consecutive year.
“This last year the pheasant survey results were well above what we’ve seen in recent years,” Pollentier said. “This was the highest we’ve seen since we revamped the survey in 2013.”

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Joint Finance Committee eliminates hunting, fishing license fee hikes in Wisconsin

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Wisconsin’s hunters, trappers, and anglers will likely have mixed reactions to the new state budget that was hurriedly put together by the Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee (JFC) and signed by Gov. Tony Evers on July 3.
Quick action and signing were necessary for the state to receive more than $1 billion in federal Medicaid that would have been lost if the state budget were signed after the new federal budget was signed the following day. In Wisconsin’s new budget, outdoor enthusiasts did not get a requested increase in fees for hunting, trapping and fishing licenses, nor did they get a continuation of the Knowles/Nelson Stewardship Program.

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Wisconsin NRB OKs fish rule changes, including April trout opener

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The Wisconsin Natural Resources Board (NRB), at its June 25 meeting, approved changes in several fishing regulations, including opening the inland trout fishing season in April, one month earlier than the May fishing opener.
The regulations had been presented to the public at the 2025 spring fish and game public hearings in each county, plus at an additional hearing on May 22.

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Rule involving technology used for trapping needs review, says Wisconsin Natural Resources Board

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The Wisconsin Natural Resources Board (NRB) held off on adopting a rule proposed by the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) that would set standards for using technology to tend traps, along with several hunting rule changes.
At the board’s June 25 meeting, the DNR proposed a package of rules that would modify hunting and trapping regulations, based on results from spring fish and wildlife public hearings.

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7% bump in Wisconsin’s breeding duck numbers from ’24 may not tell the full story

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Taylor Finger, game bird ecologist with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR), told attendees of a June 30 DNR Migratory Game Bird Advisory Committee meeting that the total breeding duck estimate in Wisconsin this spring was 7% higher than last year and is 27% above the long-term average.
“The reason why this is up over last year is that in the last three-plus years we are getting quite a few more ‘other’ ducks counted in our spring survey because we’ve had to run the survey earlier due to a lack of winter,” Finger said.

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Grant County escapes Wisconsin’s holiday deer hunt as NRB approves framework of 2025 season

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In a show of support for recommendations by County Deer Advisory Councils (CDAC), the Wisconsin Natural Resources Board (NRB) approved the 2025 deer season framework June 25 that includes a holiday hunt and extended January season in 44 Farmland Zone units.
The Department of Natural Resources (DNR) had agreed with all CDAC recommendations except for not including the holiday hunt and extended archery hunt in Grant County.

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Wisconsin’s David Gunnulson helps save part of Koshkonong prairie in Dane County

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Thanks to the Southern Wisconsin Bird Alliance (SWBA), a declining population of Wisconsin’s grassland birds is receiving permanent protection of their nesting grounds.
SWBA held a ribbon cutting event at its new Hillside Prairie Sanctuary, June 7, in Dane County’s town of Christina to celebrate land that will continue to be home to grassland birds and other wildlife. The 348-acre farmland, once part of the 18,000-acre Koshkonong prairie, was an active row-cropped farm for five generations until David Gunnulson changed to more ecological hay farming.

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