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Events coming up in New York designed to teach women outdoors skills
Upcoming events this spring will help women develop a variety of outdoors skills.
These will include the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s Becoming an Outdoors Woman (BOW) Bowhunting 101 Workshop, which takes

Tom Pink: Cacophony or euphony? Sounds of the turkey woods
Turkey hunters use a variety of words to describe the sights and sounds of morning arriving in the woods and fields. Hushed. Peaceful. Beautiful. Inviting. Exciting.
How about this word: cacophony or cacophonous. That’s

Neil Payne, Bill Lunney enter Wisconsin Conservation Hall of Fame
Neil Payne, retired UW-Stevens Point wildlife professor, and the late Bill Lunney, an advocate for wetlands and public parks, were inducted into the Wisconsin Conservation Hall of Fame April 21.
Payne conducted research on

Light attendance in Wisconsin’s Washington County spring hearing
Only 26 sportsmen registered at the Washington County April 13 spring fish and game hearing. That compares to 95 attendees in 2019, the last pre-COVID in-person hearing.
After presentations from the DNR, an election

On the ground with the public employees we too often second-guess
On August 12, 1986, during a microphone soundcheck for his weekly radio address, President Ronald Reagan said, “The nine more terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government, and I’m here to

Wisconsin NRB’s Rachel Bouressa discusses DNR budget in Waupaca County
Several advisory questions voted on at the Wisconsin DNR and Conservation Congress April 13 spring hearings dealt with ways to increase DNR funding for wildlife, fisheries, and conservation programs.
The newest member of the

Could the addition of ‘reefer trucks’ be a boost to Wisconsin’s venison donation program?
A Wisconsin Conservation Congress delegate believes he has an idea that will bring more venison into the state’s food pantries.
Bob Peterson, of Waupaca, submitted a resolution April 13 at the spring fish and

Can curiosity kill a reluctant gobbler?
Sometimes a gobbler might know better, but his curiosity overcomes natural caution. Take the hefty tom bagged during the 2017 third season in Wisconsin as an example.
When the alarm jangled at 3:30 a.m.

NRB’s Smith talks Wisconsin DNR budget issues at Washburn County spring hearing
Washburn County’s April 13 spring fish and game hearing was a little unique this year in having Shell Lake resident and Natural Resource Board (NRB) Chairman Bill Smith take the floor briefly to comment on