Vilas County’s Presque Isle Chain of Lakes includes Presque Isle, Averill, and Van Vliet lakes. Presque Isle covers 1,280 acres, has 9.3 miles of shoreline, and a maximum depth of 80 feet.
Averill Lake
A look at upcoming outdoors-related events from across Wisconsin published in the May 16, 2025, edition of Outdoor News.
Wisconsin cuffs and collars are field reports from DNR wardens. These reports are from the May 16, 2025, edition of Outdoor News.
Gov. Tony Evers announced the reappointment of Cindy Brown and the appointment of Andy Hatch to the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) Board, effective May 2.
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the May 16, 2025, edition of Wisconsin Outdoor News.
While the Waupaca County’s County Deer Advisory Council (CDAC) met May 1 for three hours to make recommendations for the 2025 deer seasons, much of that time was spent discussing local cases of chronic wasting
The Wisconsin DNR will conduct aerial spraying for spongy moth caterpillars at three state properties this spring. Listen here for the details.
A degree of political backlash or reprisal seems to have crept into the election of Washburn County Conservation Congress delegates during the April 14 spring hearings, with the focus apparently on long-serving delegate Joe Weiss.<br
The latest Wisconsin DNR Wolf Monitoring Report, furnished to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, contains no wolf population estimate. Why is the previous winter’s wolf estimate different from any other year, when Wisconsin DNR
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