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January 24, 2008
Fishing
Early C&R for muskies will be delayed a year
Site Staff
January 24, 2008
Eagle River, Wis. – A catch-and-release muskie season that was created for this May through the state budget process will be delayed for at least one more year. The DNR – and fishermen – learned
The plan: more ducks, better habitat
Site Staff
December 27, 2007
Madison – More ducks through better habitat and more hunters by having more ducks. That’s the plan. Of course, there is a lot more to the state’s new 10-year Waterfowl Strategic Plan for 2008 to
State loses dedicated conservationist, Dan Trainer
Site Staff
December 27, 2007
Stevens Point, Wis. – Wisconsin lost a dedicated conservationist Dec. 8, when Dan Trainer Jr. passed away. The 81-year-old retired dean of the College of Natural Resources at UW-Stevens Point had helped to begin wildlife
Locked bucks saved from watery peril
Site Staff
December 13, 2007
Richfield, Wis. – A group of Washington County DNR employees saved two trophy bucks from a watery death on Friday, Nov. 16, the day before the gun deer season began. DNR Conservation Warden Bob Lee
‘Live bait rule’ heads to state Legislature
Site Staff
December 13, 2007
Madison – No live bait and no water may leave any lake. If the Legislature supports a Dec. 5 move by the Natural Resources Board, that will be the gist of a new permanent rule
October Zone T in ’08: still unknown
Site Staff
December 13, 2007
Madison – The biggest question among hunters following the nine-day gun deer season is whether or not the ratio of antlerless to antlered deer killed in 2006 and 2007 is high enough to prevent the
Opening weekend deer kill increases
Site Staff
November 29, 2007
Madison – In what were mixed but generally good hunting conditions across the state, hunters registered a preliminary tally of 171,584 deer during the first two days of the 2007 gun deer-hunting season. This compares
New live bait rule: ‘too much justice?’
Site Staff
November 29, 2007
Madison – Long-time Eagle River guide and sport shop owner George Langley says the new rule requiring anglers to kill all unused bait before leaving any water body statewide is a case of hitting a
