Wisconsin cuffs and collars are field reports from DNR wardens. These reports are from the March 21, 2025, edition of Outdoor News.
There’s been plenty of recent attention paid to Elon Musk and the effects of his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Unsurprisingly, little has been said about impacts to natural resources conservation.
The exceptions have
A total of 305 smallmouth bass and 140 largemouth bass were collected by DNR in three Illinois harbors and the shoreline inside Calumet Harbor last spring, with evidence that overall bass populations continue to grow
Fishing reports have been good. Numbers of walleyes, saugers and perch. Using electronics is super helpful with some larger walleyes swimming through suspended.
A final recap from the ice season and how things went this past week.
“What a toad!” Andrew Hendrickson exclaimed, as the fat, brilliantly marked yellow perch slid over the lip of the hole and onto the ice within his flip-over shelter on Michigan’s massive Mullett Lake.
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The Wisconsin DNR’s Office of Applied Science conducts an array of research that delves into the state’s fisheries, studying everything from trout trends and panfish mortality, to muskie growth, and beaver impacts.
The team’s
Wayne Whitemarsh’s “Possum Lodge” is many things. Man cave. Wildlife museum. Hall of taxidermy. A portal into North America’s wild past. It’s a curated collection of every conceivable pelt, trap, mount and lure, each with
School administrators likely pondered whether to change Warren Nelson’s absence Feb. 10 from “illness” to “unexcused” when learning the boy speared a sturgeon that morning on Lake Winneconne during Wisconsin’s Winnebago system’s 16-day season.
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