Outdoor/Recreations
Wisconsin spring turkey season begins April 15
MADISON – Gov. Evers’ Safer at Home order recognizes outdoor activity as an essential activity. As such, the 2020 Spring Turkey Season will proceed without changes to the season dates or management zones under the Safer at Home order. Due to COVID-19, distance is critical. Social distancing – the practice of always staying 6 feet…
Read MoreLocals earn 2019-20 Basketball All-Conference Team honors
2019-20 DSC BOY BASKETBALL ALL-CONFERENCE TEAMS FIRST TEAM Ed Hydukovich COL Sr. Gunnar Hurlburt DUR So. Simon Bauer DUR So. Cade Hanson EM Sr. Owen Schultz MON Sr. Aaron Borgerding SV Sr. SECOND TEAM Logan Knudtson BV Sr. Cole Seehaver COL Sr. Caden Berger DUR Jr. Ryan Bohl EM Jr. Luke Webb EPC So. Brandyn Hallquist GC…
Read MoreSt. Croix, Eau Claire DNR wardens among honored for lifesaving, valor and meritorious service acts
State officials on Tuesday, March 3 lauded 14 Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources conservation wardens for heroic acts that included rescuing residents and pets from rapidly rising floodwaters, creating a chest seal to stop bleeding from multiple gunshot wounds and carrying a lost boy out of marsh for a mile at night as freezing temperatures…
Read MoreApply for the 2020 Elk Hunt through May 31
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources will accept applications for the 2020 elk hunting tags through May 31. This fall marks the third elk hunt in state history. Once widespread across North America, elk were eliminated from Wisconsin in the 1880s. Thanks to the support of many partners and the backing of Wisconsinites, the herd…
Read MoreWisconsin falconer guilty of Lacey Act Violation
MADISON, WIS. – Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that James Kitzman, 69, Oak Creek, Wisconsin, pleaded guilty Monday, December 30, 2019 in U.S. District Court in Madison to conspiracy to violate the Lacey Act for his role in illegally bartering a northern goshawk. This charge carries maximum…
Read MoreFormer Minnesota hunting guide guilty of Lacey Act Violation
Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Jeff Althoff, 32, Greensboro, North Carolina, pleaded guilty Monday, December 30, 2019 in U.S. District Court in Madison to violating the Lacey Act by falsely labeling wildlife and transporting it across state lines. This charge carries maximum penalties of one year…
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Buck photo – Sarah Steven
Keystone: ‘You kinda look like a deer’
Conservation Warden Clark Delzer was walking among the jammed parking areas surrounding a Shawano County public hunting area on opening day of the 2019 gun-deer season when he was a bit stunned by what he saw. “I see this dog running up to me,” Warden Clark said of a golden retriever that seemed to be…
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