WDNR Weekly News March 13, 2012
April 9 spring hearings offer a smorgasbord of issues: crane hunt, recycling, wetlands, motor trolling, year-round fishingMADISON - Hunting for sandhill cranes, restoring recycling funding to local communities, allowing year-round fishing and statewide motor trolling, and removing local wetland permitting authority are among the natural resources topics citizens can weigh in on April 9 during the annual spring hearings at locations statewide....
http://dnr.wi.gov/news/DNRNews_article_Lookup.asp?id=2070Citizen volunteers take to the woods, waters and wetlandsMADISON ? Volunteers can count sandhill cranes, listen for frogs, owls and hawks, search for freshwater mussels and violets, monitor water quality and join in a host of other efforts now gearing up to help collect information about Wisconsin's wildlife, plants and water resources....
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State hires new foresters, 100 years after the first forestry employees startedMADISON - The dozen men hired a century ago as Wisconsin?s first foresters would certainly understand the tree planting and fire control duties of the 15 foresters recently hired to help manage Wisconsin forests. But they would likely be amazed by the Global Positioning Systems, Geographic Information Systems, digital aerial photographs, Incident Command System training and modern firefighting equipment that today?s forestry professionals use to carry out their modern duties -- and by the changes in the foresters' duties themselves....
http://dnr.wi.gov/news/DNRNews_article_Lookup.asp?id=2072Leftover spring turkey permits available beginning week of March 19MADISON - Remaining permits for the 2012 spring turkey hunting season will be sold on a first-come, first-served basis starting Monday, March 19....
http://dnr.wi.gov/news/DNRNews_article_Lookup.asp?id=2073Learn to hunt turkey student enjoys rewards of the huntMADISON - You don't have to be a master chef to take Learn to Hunt turkey, but it definitely added to the experience in the case of one novice ...
http://dnr.wi.gov/news/DNRNews_article_Lookup.asp?id=2074New tools can help make 2012 fishing easier, more funMADISON - Anglers planning their Wisconsin fishing trips for 2012 in Wisconsin can reel in two new free resources to help put them on to more fishing fun this summer, state fisheries officials say....
http://dnr.wi.gov/news/DNRNews_article_Lookup.asp?id=2075Volunteers needed for 2012 sturgeon guardOSHKOSH, Wis. - It is a spectacle seen nowhere else in the world. Each year, in mid-April the largest population of lake sturgeon in the world spawns in northeastern Wisconsin. The giant, prehistoric fish make their way from the Winnebago Lakes up the Wolf River as they have for the past 10,000 years. While groups of male sturgeon battle it out for the opportunity to fertilize a female?s eggs, standing on the shore are groups of volunteers making sure the fish are not touched. It has been this way for nearly 30 years and will happen again in 2012. ...
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