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Wisconsin Letters to the Editor: ‘Keep Your Feet Wet Rule’ is key for future generations
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Aug. 9, 2024, edition of Wisconsin Outdoor News.

Russ Mason: Wildlife councils succeed in educating public on merits of hunting; why not employ a similar approach on R3?
Arguably, the time is coming when most state fish and wildlife agencies won’t have the expertise to effectively promote hunting and fishing. The consequences are profound, not only for hunters and anglers, but also for

Bob Zink: PETA meets the Dunning-Kruger zone
I admit to being a bit behind regarding my grasp of PETA.
The last thing I remember was that we all chuckled when we heard that in 1995, Michael Doughney registered the domain peta.org

Mike Schoonveld: Are intra-lake ballast regulators needed to control invasive species in Great Lakes?
There have been invasive species in the Great Lakes for more than a century.
Early on, few people were concerned with invasives and the efforts to curtail the early arrivals or prevent additional ones

Notes off a soiled cuff: Pennsylvania Game Commission adds to state game lands months after being questioned about the topic
Five months after the Pennsylvania Game Commission’s former executive director was lectured by state senators in a hearing about the agency having too much state game land, the agency announced in July it was adding

Shotshell Primers Still In Short Supply
If you’ve made any attempt to purchase rifle, pistol, or shotshell primers lately it’s most likely you didn’t find any especially shotshell primers. Of all the components needed to reload ammunition, shotshell primers seem to

Jeff Frischkorn: Poison ivy is one remarkable plant
It surprised me when I began researching poison ivy that it is an amazing plant with a rather extensive – and impressive – taxonomical dossier.
Yet it is the plant’s sinister side that gets

Streams of Thought: New Fish and Wildlife Advisory Committee forming in Minnesota to track DNR spending
I don’t know about you, but as the buyer of a host of hunting and fishing licenses and stamps each year, I tend to sleep easier knowing that the money I spend, which in turn

Steve Griffin: Antlerless-only rule for special hunts in Michigan is a bad idea
Among the deer regulation changes considered and acted upon by the Michigan Natural Resources Commission a few weeks ago, I don’t like the change in September (Liberty – for youths and hunters with disabilities) and