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Dean Bortz: Spring hearing update, and is work being done to halt the return of numbered deer units in Wisconsin?
What we’re going to talk about here today – a possible change in Wisconsin’s deer unit boundaries to numbered units in the two forest zones and a preview of the April 14 spring fish and

Wisconsin’s Tom Tiffany authors wolf delisting bill under a new name
Federal legislators are making another run at delisting timber wolves, this time changing the bill name to – they hope – better describe what’s happening back at home.
The Pet and Livestock Protection Act

A quick chat with Kip Adams of the National Deer Association
Kip Adams’ career has come full circle in a sense.
The chief conservation officer for the National Deer Association (NDA) grew up in northern Pennsylvania, knowing from an early age that he wanted to

Outdoor Insights: Will introduced elk adjust well to predators on the landscape in Minnesota’s northeast?
The DNR held two public meetings this week on the plan to start reintroducing elk to northeastern Minnesota by spring 2026. If you couldn’t make the meetings, you still can chime in on the plan,

Bob Gwizdz: Canada geese are a conservation success story in Michigan
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources gets a lot of guff – not all of it undeserved – for its management practices, but one area where the agency hit the ball out of the park

Ben Moyer: Pennsylvania’s Under 7 mentor rule a beneficial filter
You can’t call it a controversy, and certainly not a conflict. But you could fairly consider it debate, in the best sense of the word, defined by Webster’s, as a noun: “a regulated discussion of

Jeff Frischkorn: Chasing the winter doldrums one fly at a time
Each whisk of wind that danced through the folds of whatever jacket I’ve worn this winter was met with the same uncharitable oath of condemnation. It was not always so.
Time was once I

Minnesota’s House of Representatives back in action, with outdoor bills among first on the table
The Minnesota House of Representatives convened for the first time on Thursday, Feb. 6, after Republicans and DFLers reached a power-sharing agreement.
They didn’t waste time once they arrived: More than 300 bills hit

New York DEC launches public HPAI reporting system
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation recently announced the launch of an online platform for the public to report suspected Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) outbreaks in wild birds. The platform was designed