Upland Game Hunting Wisconsin
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3/12/2012 2:25:00 PMThe time to act is now! With spring nesting season right around the corner, there is a renewed urgency for pheasants to be able to find adequate upland habitat. Did you know quality nesting cover is the single largest limiting factor to growing pheasant populations? That’s why your timely support is so important right now. D...
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2/24/2012 9:30:00 AMBy Dick EllisWith first light of a new morning touching the eastern ridges of Grant County in the mid-1990, I remember the predominant emotion that fell over me as I let the diaphragm call fall over the valley to any Gobblers on the roost. Sheer, total embarrassment. This was my first turkey hunt. I was solo. But was another...
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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...
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12/31/1899 11:45:00 PMJanuary hearings provide opportunity to give feedback on final Deer Trustee Report rule packageMADISON – Nine public hearings throughout Wisconsin will provide an additional opportunity for public comment before the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources requests adoption of the Deer Trustee Report permanent rule package in February. ...
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12/31/1899 11:40:00 PMThe Perfect Gift for Hunters - Now 30% Off Sometimes shopping for hunting buddies is more of a chore than we'd like. Considering the money we spend on our gear, the ability to actually find our game is, well… priceless. Use code "thanks30" atwww.onxmaps.com t...
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12/31/1899 11:35:00 PMTickets on Sale Now! Advanced Discount tickets are on sale now for just $6 (ages 11 and older) at: Gordy's County Markets, Scheels, and online at www.wisportshow.com(Children 10 and younger are FREE) Event Features and Activiti...
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12/31/1899 11:30:00 PMEarly surveillance reveals positive test for the fungus that causes white-nose syndromeMADISON – Early winter surveillance of 15 caves revealed that two bats in a single Dane County cave tested positive for genetic markers of the fungus that causes white-nose syndrome. - Read Full Article 134,257 permits issued for 2015...
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12/31/1899 11:25:00 PMYes, it’s cold, but Wisconsin’s best trout waters remain ice-freeMADISON -- With statewide temperatures projected to remain below freezing through the first week in March, the 2015 Wisconsin early trout season may be on the chilly side. - Read Full Article Visit the DNR exhibit at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Sp...