Carcass registration: Is it worth anything anymore?
Jerry Davis
June 4, 2018
Has Wisconsin’s change to electronic registration resulted in lower reporting by deer and turkey hunters?
Hunting
Who is ‘the decider’ on the Wisconsin deer management landscape?
Tim Eisele
May 29, 2018
CDACs, DNR, Natural Resources Board, and individual hunters tugging on antlerless deer quota recommendations.
Zinke proposes expanding hunting, fishing at 30 national wildlife refuges
Staff and News Reports
May 22, 2018
More than a third of those refuges are on lands in the Great Lakes region.
Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin to collaborate on West Nile virus monitoring in ruffed grouse
Staff and News Reports
May 21, 2018
The three states are in the early stages of planning to test samples from grouse this fall, but at this point there is no evidence that the virus is having a population-level impact in the
Anxiously awaiting in Wisconsin: Ruffed grouse drumming discloses potential bird densities
Jerry Davis
May 16, 2018
Wisconsin DNR personnel and volunteers now running spring ruffed grouse drumming surveys.
DNR proposes buck-only restrictions in just one county
Associated Press
May 14, 2018
That’s a sign the state’s northern herd has regenerated.
Sandhill Wildlife Area offering learn-to-hunt program to first-time deer hunters
Dean Bortz
May 10, 2018
Sandhiil offers two programs, one for kids ages 12 to 15, another for those age 16 and older.
Wisconsin researchers: CWD found in soil near mineral licks
Staff and News Reports
May 7, 2018
Research helps confirm longstanding suspicions that prions can accumulate in the environment in areas such as mineral licks or feeding and baiting sites where deer congregate, and scientists believe environmental reservoirs of prions could serve
Too little, too late from Gov. Walker on Wisconsin CWD management efforts?
Tim Eisele
May 2, 2018
Governor calls for enhanced game farm fencing, limiting game farm deer movement, and wild deer carcass de-boning before movement of harvested venison.
