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General Category => Wisconsin DNR Outdoor Reports and News => Topic started by: mudbrook on December 03, 2009, 09:22:40 AM

Title: Wisconsin DNR Weekly News, December 1, 2009
Post by: mudbrook on December 03, 2009, 09:22:40 AM

2010 spring turkey, black bear permit application deadline Dec 10
MADISON - Turkey and black bear hunters have until close of business Dec. 10 to apply for available permits for the 2010 spring turkey season and the 2010 black bear season....
http://dnr.wi.gov/news/DNRNews_article_Lookup.asp?id=1273

Muzzleloader season underway; Dec. antlerless season ahead
MADISON - The close of the nine-day gun deer hunt also signals the opening of the 10-day, muzzleloader deer hunt that runs from Nov. 30 through Dec. 9. Following the muzzleloader hunt is a four-day antlerless deer hunt running Dec. 10 through 13...
http://dnr.wi.gov/news/DNRNews_article_Lookup.asp?id=1272

Chemical treatment for invasive carp gets underway Dec. 2
MADISON - The chemical treatment of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal that gets underway Dec. 2 is an important effort to keep Asian carp from getting a toehold in the Great Lakes...
http://dnr.wi.gov/news/DNRNews_article_Lookup.asp?id=1271

Draft impaired waters list available for comment until Jan. 15, 2010
MADISON -Several dozen water bodies are proposed to be removed from Wisconsin's list of impaired waters due in part to less frequent beach closings or fewer fish consumption advisories. Several dozen others are proposed to be added for problems tracing to runoff pollution and bacterial contamination...
http://dnr.wi.gov/news/DNRNews_article_Lookup.asp?id=1270

Lakes' removal from Impaired Waters list a success story
MADISON - The state wants to make official what the crowds at Bass Lake in Marinette County and Silver Lake in Manitowoc County already know: these lakes are back after long, expensive efforts to eclaim them from pollution....
http://dnr.wi.gov/news/DNRNews_article_Lookup.asp?id=1269

2010 Wisconsin state park admission stickers available
MADISON - The 2010 admission stickers to Wisconsin State Parks and Forests are now available at park and forest offices and Department of Natural Resources service centers....
http://dnr.wi.gov/news/DNRNews_article_Lookup.asp?id=1268

Chemical treatment appears to have eliminated invasive crayfish
GERMANTOWN - A chemical treatment appears to have knocked down populations of a new destructive crayfish found for the first time in Wisconsin earlier this year in a subdivision pond here....
http://dnr.wi.gov/news/DNRNews_article_Lookup.asp?id=1267

43 communities apply for DNR Brownfield Site Assessment Grants
MADISON - Forty-three Wisconsin communities submitted a total of 87 applications for grants to assist them in jump-starting investigations to begin the process of cleaning up contaminated properties...
http://dnr.wi.gov/news/DNRNews_article_Lookup.asp?id=1266

Pilfered trees, native mistletoe and life under the ice in the December issue of Wisconsin Natural Resources
MADISON -- In the seasonal story, the Grinch steals the holiday tree, but timber theft is a very real concern that doesn't have a happy ending....
http://dnr.wi.gov/news/DNRNews_article_Lookup.asp?id=1265