Wisconsin’s Outdoor Calendar
Staff Report
February 19, 2024
A look at upcoming outdoors-related events from across Wisconsin published in the Feb. 23, 2024, edition of Outdoor News.
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Wisconsin Cuffs & Collars: Multiple hunters from same group fail to register deer
Staff Report
February 19, 2024
Wisconsin cuffs and collars are field reports from the Wisconsin DNR. These reports are from the Feb. 23, 2024, edition of Outdoor News.
Harvest data from Wisconsin’s sturgeon spearing season critical to getting population estimate
Larry Polenske
February 19, 2024
If the Center for Biological Diversity is successful in forcing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to add sturgeon to the Endangered Species List and Wisconsin’s sturgeon are not exempted from the listing, the result
WI Daily Update: Right now is prime time to prune trees to prevent oak wilt
Site Staff
February 19, 2024
The unusually warm winter could hasten invasive oak wilt infection risk. Now is the safest time to prune and trim oak trees to prevent the spread of this deadly disease. Here’s what to know.
Wisconsin ‘Lakes at Stake’ group tackles wake boat issue
Tim Eisele
February 19, 2024
Lakes at Stake Wisconsin (LASW), a new bi-partisan group, has formed so members can advocate for wakeboat regulations to protect lakes and lake users from damage.
Organized last September, LASW focuses on a single
Albino whitetail killed by car last month in Wisconsin’s Washington County
Larry Polenske
February 18, 2024
Chuck Dreher, of West Bend, Wis., accomplished the equivalent of finding a needle in a haystack Jan. 25 when he located a white, car-killed doe in a snowbank along Hwy. 28 near the hamlet of
Commentary: One in-person field day won’t cut it for hunter safety training
Dan Nauman
February 18, 2024
I am a certified DNR hunter safety instructor and have been for roughly 15 years. I am writing about the Wisconsin DNR’s push to use the virtual world for hunter safety training, as well as
Wisconsin DNR facing ‘red ink reality’ without a license fee hike
Tim Eisele
February 17, 2024
Not bankrupt, but not flush with cash either may best describe the budget situation for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.
DNR officials explained to the Natural Resources Board (NRB), at its Jan. 24
Wisconsin State Roundup: Ban on antlerless harvest up north well intentioned, but not what’s needed
Dean Bortz
February 16, 2024
A new legislative bill that would ban antlerless deer harvest for four years in the Northern Forest Region may be well intentioned, but that’s not what we need in the north.
If that’s the
