With no wolf season, DNR to refund application fee
Wisconsin DNR Reports
February 17, 2022
Will go to customers who applied for a wolf harvest permit or preference point for the Fall 2021 wolf harvest season.
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Some whitetails have it easier than others
Dan Ladd
February 16, 2022
Around here, there’s plenty for deer to eat, but that’s not the case in the mountains.
Crowds out-of-doors: It’s all about respect
Tim Lesmeister
February 16, 2022
The author wonders, after years of preaching the benefits of multi-use outdoors recreation (and everyone taking his advice), how our resources can handle the added pressure.
Rural Wisconsin syrup producer wants more to tap into the business
Associated Press
February 15, 2022
A three-year grant worth $470,387 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture is helping UW-Extension expand its maple sugaring outreach by aiming at “private woodland owners, farmers, tribal communities and other groups that have been overlooked
Four snowmobile-related fatalities over weekend
Wisconsin DNR Reports
February 15, 2022
Since the start of the new year, there have been 11 snowmobile fatalities. There were 13 fatalities in 2021.
De-icer regs called for after dog drowns
Dan Ladd
February 11, 2022
Resident proposes that towns pass ordinances.
Judge restores protections for gray wolves across much of U.S.
Associated Press
February 11, 2022
U.S. District judge said U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service had failed to show wolf populations could be sustained in Midwest and portions of West without protection under Endangered Species Act.
Squirrels can make a hunter’s day during February in Pennsylvania
Ron Steffe
February 11, 2022
If you’re bored come February, try squirrel hunting for both a challenge and tasty meal.
Snowmobilers have close wolf encounter near Voyageurs National Park in northern Minnesota
Rob Drieslein
February 9, 2022
Voyageurs Wolf Project researcher says he’s never seen a wild wolf approach people like this animal did last weekend.
