
Wisconsin Letters to the Editor: Ditch jaw-spreader release photos; those fish are dead
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the June 13, 2025, edition of Wisconsin Outdoor News.

Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the June 13, 2025, edition of Wisconsin Outdoor News.

The Wisconsin DNR is accepting applications for the state’s beaver management plan committee. Listen here for details on how you can take part.

Anyone who has ever attended any public gathering on any topic related to conservation or public resource management in Wisconsin likely heard Corky Meyer speak.
Whether it was a gathering called by the Natural

Readers might recall that Editor Dean Bortz offered a short story about George Meyer in his State Roundup column on Page 3 of the May 30 issue. After that issue came out, Meyer digested that

Two deer hunters, one an archer and the other a gun-deer hunter, received the 2024 Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Ethical Hunter Award, sponsored by Vortex Optics of Barneveld.
Eliot Babino, of Platteville, and

The Buena Vista State Wildlife Area’s greater prairie chickens may get some favorable news by July 1 as it relates to the large solar farm proposed by Vista Sands LLC, the company that wants to

It’s happening now in fields and forests near you.
Whitetail fawns, cute as can be, are being born. If you are lucky enough to find one a few days old or less, it will

Nicholas Miofsky, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) conservation warden supervisor in Milwaukee, received the 2024 Shikar-Safari Club International Wildlife Officer of the Year Award.
DNR Chief Conservation Warden Casey Krueger presented the

Perhaps the biggest question a muskie angler faces each morning is which lake he should fish. Certainly he should consider the lakes that have been producing for him lately, as well as where he historically
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