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VOL: 8 ISSUE: 815 - 13 APRIL 2013
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 • Twelve-year-old turkey calling champ makes short work of spring hunt with GhostBlind
• Blue-winged teal in decline across Wisconsin |
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 • Dan reports on last weekend’s Wisconsin Deer & Turkey Expo
• Dan gears up for spring turkey hunting
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RESULTS of POLL S814
Do you think the TV reality show “Duck Dynasty” on the A&E Network portrays hunters in a bad light?
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Does the Spring Hearings vote on the crossbow issue clarify state sportsmen’s stand on this issue?
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The Question: "Does the Spring Hearings vote on the crossbow issue clarify state sportsmen’s stand on this issue?"
WHAT do YOU think of this.
VOTE YOUR OPINION
photo c. Wisconsin Crossbow
Federation
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Spring hearings attendees reject two crossbow-related questions
Crossbow proponents have lobbied strongly for the expansion of
crossbow hunting opportunities, including staffing an informational
booth at the recent Deer & Turkey Expo. At the same time, crossbow
opponents have voiced strong opposition to allowing all hunters to use
crossbows during the archery season. Some, however, have supported a
separate crossbow season and license.
The Natural Resources Board offered two advisory questions in this
year’s Spring Hearings. The introduction to Questions 66 and 67 read:
Crossbow use is currently allowed for anyone during firearm
seasons for most species including deer. The use of crossbows for
hunting deer outside the firearm deer seasons is limited to persons with
certain disabled permits and persons over the age of 65. There has been
considerable interest to expand deer hunting opportunity with crossbows
outside the firearm deer seasons.
Attendees at the Wisconsin DNR Spring Fish & Wildlife Hearings
rejected both proposals, one by a close vote and the other by a wide
margin.
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Public hearings provide citizens with an opportunity to comment and
indicate preference on a range of fish and wildlife management proposals
illustration c. WDNR ©2013 Conservation Congress |
Spring fisheries and wildlife informational hearing results available
ADISON – A total of 6,069 people attended the 2013 Spring Fisheries and Wildlife Hearings and Wisconsin Conservation Congress county meetings that were held in every county statewide on Monday, April 8.
The public hearings provide citizens with an opportunity to comment
and indicate preference on a range of fish and wildlife management
proposed rule changes, Conservation Congress advisory questions, and to
submit resolutions for rule changes they would like to see in the
future.
Statewide hearing results and the questions are available on the Spring Rules Hearings page of the DNR Web site; search Spring Hearings.
Meeting results, along with written comments on the evening’s
questions and DNR recommendations are used to advise the state Natural
Resources Board. This year’s results will be reviewed at the board’s May
22 meeting in Madison. Votes are non-binding and are presented to the
Natural Resources Board as advisory.
The hearings are held annually on the second Monday in April in
conjunction with the Wisconsin Conservation Congress county meetings.
DNR related proposals are presented to attendees by DNR staff. Following
DNR business, the meeting is reconvened as a Conservation Congress
meeting and congress advisory questions are presented. The Spring
Hearings also provides an opportunity for citizens of each county to
elect Wisconsin Conservation Congress delegates to represent them on
natural resource issues. The congress is an advisory body to the Natural
Resources Board. During the congress’ portion of the hearing, citizens
may introduce resolutions for consideration and vote by those attending
the hearings.
Read more here:
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:
- Bill Cosh, DNR spokesperson - (608) 267-2773
- Kari Lee-Zimmermann, Conservation Congress Liaison - (608) 266-0850
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Inclement weather has delayed some of the stocking this year but the DNR still plans to have everything done by the May 4 opener
photo c. WDNR ©2013 |
330,000 catchable trout to be stocked before opening day
MADISON – Nearly 330,000 catchable size trout are being stocked in
dozens of inland trout waters across Wisconsin before the May 4 inland
fishing season opener. A list of waters receiving fish and how many were
planned for stocking is now available online.
Go to the Department of Natural Resources website, and search keyword fishing, and click on the trout stocking feature in the center of the page.
“Cold weather has delayed some of the stocking this year but we still
plan to have everything done by the May 4 opener,” says David
Giehtbrock, DNR statewide fish production manager.
DNR fisheries crews have been stocking rainbow, brown, and brook
trout raised at Nevin, Osceola and St Croix Falls state fish hatcheries.
They've also been working with fishing club volunteers, students, and
others to help stock the fish raised under 21 cooperative rearing
agreements with DNR.
Some of the fish are to be stocked in urban fishing waters, small
lakes and ponds cooperatively managed with the local municipality and
used as a place for fishing clinics and kids fishing.
The trout are stocked in waters where the habitat is marginal and
there is no natural reproduction. They are a small subset of the state's
overall trout treasury -- more than 13,000 miles of classified trout
water and trout populations that have generally increased statewide over
the last 60 years.
Read A Trout Treasury: Welcome to the good old days of trout fishing,
in the April 2011 Wisconsin Natural Resources magazine to learn about
the general, overall improvement in the total number of trout, and trout
in all the size ranges since 1950.
Find links to downloadable and interactive maps of trout streams and other resources to help find places to fish on the inland trout page of the DNR website.
Read more here.
FOR MORE INFORMATION Contact:
- Dave Giehtbrock - (608) 266-8229
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