Upland Game Hunting Wisconsin
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2/21/2012 10:30:00 AMBy Dick Ellis According to the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Upland Game Ecologist Scott Walter from Madison on February , 2010-2011 harvest estimates for cottontail rabbits are taken from a relatively small survey of 10,000 Wisconsin hunters. From the survey, DNR estimates that 31,502 hunters, or 13 percent of the total number of hu...
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2/21/2012 10:10:00 AMBy Dick ELlis Time was slipping fast on the Wisconsin spring turkey season. Any gobblers rising to the roost at day’s end on this Friday near Barron in northwest Wisconsin would have already survived five, 5-day seasons….25 days…plus the first three sunsets of this final 2011 challenge. “Would have”, tho...
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2/20/2012 1:50:00 PMBy Dick Ellis Only the ages know how many times Merv Hottenstein has walked this wooded valley outside of Platteville with his beagles, waiting for new scent to inspire new song. No song to end this day, though, except the gentle babbling of spring water against stone. And with no rabbit in the gamebag, maybe a muted rendition of the canine blues....
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1/10/2012 4:00:00 PMBy Dick Ellis The urgent call of the rat terrier somewhere in the distance pulled Terry Mihlbauer up the sloping oak forest and over a barb-wire fence to the lone hickory standing guard over a patented LaValle landscape. Down the fence line, the open hillside melted away into a valley checker boarded with the browns and greens of harvested farm fi...
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1/8/2012 6:40:00 PMby Dick Ellis Time was slipping fast on the Wisconsin spring turkey season. Any gobblers rising to the roost at day’s end on this Friday near Barron in northwest Wisconsin would have already survived five, 5-day seasons….25 days…plus the first three sunsets of this final 2011 challenge. “Would have”, tho...