Wisconsin Deer Hunting
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12/11/2012 2:15:00 PMBY BILL THORNLEY CODY, Wyoming– There is something a bit unnerving about walking out into the mountains near Yellowstone National Park in the pre-dawn darkness and looking down to see a huge – and very fresh – grizzly bear track in the snow on the same trail you are walking. It also makes a guy a little nervous walking through t...
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12/11/2012 1:20:00 PMCATCHING A FEW BEAVERS: NOV 3rd - 9thBEAVER FUR AND WISCONSIN'S HERITAGE This week found me taking care of some beaver trapping opportunities. While the summer drought and hot temperatures greatly reduced the muskrat population, the beaver numbers actually increased. Beavers are a relative newcomer to present day Southern Wisconsin. ...
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12/11/2012 11:10:00 AMMADISON – The opening date for hunting and trapping would be moved back in certain parks with a high volume of late fall visitors and horseback riders, and areas around high winter use trail systems in some parks would be included in closed areas, under revisions the Department of Natural Resources State Parks Program is proposing to its orig...
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12/11/2012 10:35:00 AMAs of today, Friday, December 7, 2012, 104 wolves have been harvested in Wisconsin. Breakdown by zone is below. Zone 1 closed on Sunday, December 2 and Zones 2 and 4 closed November 16. Zones 3, 5 and 6 remain open to harvest. Wolf harvest bulletins will be sent every Friday. For daily updates of the harvest, please visit our webs...
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12/11/2012 10:25:00 AMThe nine-day gun deer season and the muzzleloader season have closed for 2012, but opportunities remain to harvest a deer, and fill the freezer for the holidays. The late archery season is underway and continues until Jan. 6, 2013. There is also a statewide antlerless hunt beginning today, Dec. 6, through Sunday, Dec. 9, and a holiday hunt in the ...
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12/6/2012 9:30:00 AMHunters planning to participate in the statewide antlerless hunt, Dec. 6 through Dec. 9, are reminded that only the harvest of antlerless deer is permitted by both gun and archery hunters statewide. The harvest of antlered deer by archery hunters in deer management units (DMUs) 7, 29B, 34, 35, 36, & 39 is not authorized during the statewide Dec...
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12/5/2012 2:55:00 PMAlthough Richland County has been unseasonably warm, deer season was successful for my 13 year old niece, Kaili this year. She looks forward to opening weekend with her dad and older sister, and I’m proud to say out hunted their crew this season by shooting her first buck. Sherry D. KlattCustomer Relations ManagerRichland Chamber &am...
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12/4/2012 2:30:00 PMGreg Byers of Waukesha sends us a photo of his first Wisconsin buck taken at Wyslusing State Park in Prairie Du Chien at about 7:00 am opening morning. Byers is the INET account representative for “On Wisconsin Outdoors” and was instrumental along with INET Graphic Design expert Sam Matter in building our website. Both deer ...
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12/4/2012 1:30:00 PMBy John Luthens Treaties and court cases have never really been my thing. I grew up in the heart of Wisconsin’s Ceded Territory without even knowing it. So when the recent controversy came to light (darkness, really-being that it involves the Chippewa people’s contention that they should be able to legally hunt deer over bait at night)...
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12/4/2012 12:25:00 PMA deer from Racine County has tested positive for chronic wasting disease, the first known CWD-positive in the county. The 3 1/2-year-old doe was harvested near Bohners Lake and volunteered to the Department of Natural Resources for sampling by a bow hunter when it was registered on November 12. Tim Lizotte, who heads the DNR's operations related ...
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12/4/2012 12:10:00 PMDecember 3, 2012 by:The Southeast Region Contact(s): Tim Lizotte, CWD Operations Supervisor, 262-574-2120Jennifer Pelej, Public Affairs Manager, 608-264-9248 MADISON -- A deer from Racine County has tested positive for chronic wasting disease, the first known CWD-positive in the county. The 3 1/2-year-old doe was harvested near Bohners Lake and ...
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12/4/2012 11:45:00 AMBy: Bureau of Law Enforcement Frequently Asked Questions - December 3, 2012 Here are answers to some recent most frequently asked law enforcement questions taken by the DNR Call Center.The Call Center is staffed daily, 7 a.m. - 10 p.m., and offers bilingual service in Spanish and Hmong. The number is 1-888-936-7463. Question 1: Is the late holid...
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12/4/2012 11:35:00 AMBy Darrell Pendergrass I spent a lot of time in my tree stand this past deer season – a lot of time. I’m sure people get sentenced to less jail time for minor crimes than I spent in the tree stand this year. Honestly. I spent more time up in the tree during the hunt than I did in some of the classes I took in college; which isn’...
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12/4/2012 11:20:00 AMOPENING WEEK FOR MUSKRAT TRAPPING IN SOUTHERN WISCONSIN: OCT 27TH - NOV 2ND MORE MUSKRAT TRAPPERS THAN MUSKRATS My start as a muskrat trapper came in a more round about way from that of most outdoorsmen. As a youth I saw a flyer offering a $5.00 bounty for "chicken hawks" at the county building. This was a lot of money to a rural kid during the...
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12/4/2012 10:50:00 AMDATE: November 30, 2012 CONTACT: Karl Martin (608) 213-4184 MADISON – Jared Duquette will join the Department of Natural Resources – Bureau of Science Services as DNR’s deer and elk research scientist, taking over coordination and guidance of DNR’s ongoing multi-year deer research project into causes of death i...
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12/4/2012 10:35:00 AMWisconsin Bear Guide and OWO columnist Mike Foss tagged this deer during the muzzleloader season on Tuesday, November 27 at 4:00 pm. The buck conservatively scored 161.
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12/4/2012 10:15:00 AMContact(s): Bill Cosh, (608) 267-2773 Tom Hauge, (608) 266-2193 MADISON - The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has closed Wolf Harvest Zone 1 to hunting and trapping of gray wolves effective 5 pm, Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012. Wolf Harvest Zone 1 is the third zone to be closed this season. The harvest of wolves currently remains open in zones 3,...
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12/4/2012 10:10:00 AMWith the warm temperatures we had this past week we are advising anglers to stay off area ice and wait for cooler temperatures and more solid ice. Right now in Central Wisconsin we have from 1 1/2 inches to 2 1/2 inches of ice and that will more than likely diminish before it gets better if the weather continues to stay the way it is. W...
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11/29/2012 12:40:00 PMBy John Luthens After the snowy dust settles on another gun deer hunt, the stories and memories remain. This was written to commemorate my son’s first deer hunt. He wasn’t old enough to carry a gun yet, but even if he had been, he would have been more intent on hunting squirrels than deer. He rustled around in the bli...
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11/29/2012 9:55:00 AMEditor Note: Look for “On the Trapline with Arnie Groehler” each week under the OWO Trapping section beginning today. EARLY RACCOON SEASON: OCT 20-26th PRE-SEASON PREPARATION There was a time when I really looked forward to the opening day of trapping season. It was greatly anticipated just like the opening day of duck or dee...
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11/29/2012 9:20:00 AMSteve Ellis sends his brother at OWO the following trail cam photo from Iron County with a note during the muzzleloader season; ‘This is one buck I’m chasing’. We’ll let you know if Steve catches him.
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11/28/2012 4:50:00 PMOWO contributing writer Mike Hart was bowhunting near Wisconsin Dells with a trail camera set to capture the action. Mike said he didn’t think he would capture this self-portrait as he readied for a possible shot that he ultimately chose not to take. Later, his son, Jesse Hart did take the buck that Mike described as a ‘yo...
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11/28/2012 4:45:00 PMCONTACT: Laurel Steffes, Office of Communications, 608-266-8109 Bill Cosh, DNR spokesperson, 608-267-2773 “This afternoon Judge Barbara Crabb of the Western District Federal Court ruled that the State may enforce state shining laws against any Chippewa Tribal member hunting deer at night within the Ceded Territory (roughly the northern...
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11/28/2012 3:15:00 PMCalifornia native James Wallace settled in Sussex with his Wisconsin wife Angie after a tour in Iraq as an army bomb sweeper. He took his first deer with a bow in Waukesha County in early November.
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11/28/2012 11:05:00 AMNovember 27, 2012 By: Special to the Bureau of Law Enforcement "Successful hunting is not coming home with meat for the table." That from Bob Lamb, retired La Crosse Tribune outdoors editor and co-founder of the Tribune/Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Hunter Ethics Award. "A successful hunt is returning home knowing you were safe and et...