Bear Hunting in Wisconsin
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6/28/2012 12:10:00 PMBy Dick Ellis This Column by Dick Ellis was originally published in 2002 Dancing in the mud and water of a distant swamp in the Namekagon Barrens near Minong, Max, Judd, Libby and Josie send their best hound-dog harmony to the skies to announce that the black bear is finally treed. Hundreds of yards to the east, Jason Schroeder stops his be...
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6/28/2012 11:50:00 AMGuide Mike Foss carries a bucket of goodies during another summer day spent baiting bears. A 639 pound bear is taken on a September hunt in 2009 with Northern Wisconsin Outfitters after a summer of baiting by Guide Mike Foss.
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6/28/2012 11:20:00 AMBy Mike Foss After a long game of cat and mouse with the two Saskatchewan boars unwilling to share the bait, the blond sow Bill Engler had waited for saw an opening and took it. Camera rolling to capture the confrontation and hopefully, the kill, I stood above the bowhunter from Green Bay and felt our tree literally shake; the fever of the moment ...
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6/26/2012 10:20:00 AMBy Mike Foss The September Mike Foss bear camp in Washburn, Wisconsin is a place for good food and good stories. On Wisconsin Outdoors’ black bear expert Mike Foss operates Northern Wisconsin OutfittersIn Bayfield County. His hunter success rate over a decade as a professional guide is more than 95 percent with a near 100 percent sh...
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5/29/2012 11:45:00 AMMay 24, 2012 – MADISON – The Safari Club International (SCI) Chapters of Wisconsin are proud of the recently announced partnership between the Safari Club International Foundation (SCI Foundation) and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR). SCI Foundation representative Jim Hamill presented a $25,000 check to DNR Secretary...
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2/20/2012 4:40:00 PMBy Dick Ellis By his very nature, Professor Danny Riley, Ph.D. with the Department of Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy at the Medical College of Wisconsin, is a skeptic. Throughout his life he has been a questioner in search of more proof, and more answers. One takes note of Riley’s cautious optimism, then, that...
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2/20/2012 3:20:00 PMBy Dick Ellis Almost a mile off the nearest logging road west of Neillsville, DNR Bear Biologist Mike Gappa finishes the trek through the Clark County snow and leads two researchers to the sow’s shallow den burrowed out months before among a stand of immature aspen. Pressed against the entrance Mother Bear is protecting her precious se...
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1/17/2012 9:30:00 PMby Dick Ellis Wisconsin bear hunter Craig Cichanofsky’s hopes began to fade like the tangled Bayfield County forest floor fast disappearing below his treestand. Cichanofsky had already held vigil for more than nine hours above the bait pile that had in recent weeks drawn in the monster bear known as Snaggle Tooth. But in these final min...
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12/31/1899 11:50:00 PMOn 11/14/18, USDA-Wildlife Services confirmed that wolves depredated a pet Border Collie in the Town of Grant, Clark County. More information and maps of depredation locations are available on the gray wolf depredation webpage. Livestock producers and hunting dog and pet owners are reminded to contact USDA-...
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12/31/1899 11:40:00 PMHello Hunter Education Instructors! It’s time again to nominate an outstanding hunter education instructor, group, or professional in your area. This is a great way to show support for the many courses they put on, the quality of their courses, and their dedication. Remember that if someone has not been chosen in the past, that p...
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12/31/1899 11:15:00 PMRonMizia sends us a photo of his bear shot near Hayward.
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12/31/1899 11:10:00 PMOn 8/3/19, USDA-Wildlife Services confirmed that wolves depredated a Plott trailing hound in the Town of Argonne, Forest County. More information and a caution-area map are available on the gray wolf webpage. Hunters are reminded to use the caution-area maps on the DNR website (dnr.wi.gov, keyword "wolf depredation")...