Wisconsin’s Outdoor Calendar
Staff Report
May 12, 2025
A look at upcoming outdoors-related events from across Wisconsin published in the May 16, 2025, edition of Outdoor News.
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Wisconsin Cuffs & Collars: Three anglers caught with 26 brown trout during release season
Staff Report
May 12, 2025
Wisconsin cuffs and collars are field reports from DNR wardens. These reports are from the May 16, 2025, edition of Outdoor News.
Wisconsin Mixed Bag: Gov. Evers names two DATCP board members
Staff and News Reports
May 12, 2025
Gov. Tony Evers announced the reappointment of Cindy Brown and the appointment of Andy Hatch to the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) Board, effective May 2.
Wisconsin Letters to the Editor: Keep it simple; live sonar is the wrong answer for fishing
Wisconsin Letters To The Editor
May 12, 2025
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the May 16, 2025, edition of Wisconsin Outdoor News.
Deer meeting in Wisconsin’s Waupaca County turns to talks about CWD concerns
Greg Seubert
May 12, 2025
While the Waupaca County’s County Deer Advisory Council (CDAC) met May 1 for three hours to make recommendations for the 2025 deer seasons, much of that time was spent discussing local cases of chronic wasting
Long-term delegates on Conservation Congress challenged in Wisconsin’s Washburn, Bayfield county
Dave Zeug
May 12, 2025
A degree of political backlash or reprisal seems to have crept into the election of Washburn County Conservation Congress delegates during the April 14 spring hearings, with the focus apparently on long-serving delegate Joe Weiss.<br
Commentary: Why no DNR wolf estimate in latest monitoring report from Wisconsin?
Laurie Groskopf
May 11, 2025
The latest Wisconsin DNR Wolf Monitoring Report, furnished to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, contains no wolf population estimate. Why is the previous winter’s wolf estimate different from any other year, when Wisconsin DNR
Light turnout at Dane, Vernon county spring hearings in Wisconsin
Tim Eisele
May 11, 2025
What a difference a year makes, as the Dane County Conservation Congress and Wisconsin DNR spring conservation hearing held April 14 drew only 23 attendees.
In 2024 the event, also held at the McFarland
Wisconsin Governor’s Fishing Opener at Rice Lake light on walleyes
Tim Eisele
May 10, 2025
The 59th annual Wisconsin Governor’s Fishing Opener took place on Barron County’s 939-acre Rice Lake, where most opening day action featured northern pike.
As usual the event, consisting of anglers eager to get out
