Wisconsin DNR Weekly News April 24, 2012
Inland fishing season opens May 5MADISON -- The early ice-out across Wisconsin lakes and rivers is good news for anglers venturing out for the May 5 inland fishing season opener: many game fish are done spawning or wrapping up and ready to take the bait, state fisheries biologists say....
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Third highest coho harvest on record, best since 1982MILWAUKEE -- Lake Michigan anglers in 2011 recorded the highest harvest of coho salmon in three decades and the third highest on record since the state started stocking salmon and trout in the 1960s,...
http://dnr.wi.gov/news/DNRNews_article_Lookup.asp?id=2126Open house meetings set on revisions to Wisconsin's endangered species listMADISON - The public will have an opportunity to learn more about the process used to revise the "list of species designated as endangered or threatened in Wisconsin at two public open house meetings May 7 and 9....
http://dnr.wi.gov/news/DNRNews_article_Lookup.asp?id=2127Born wild: Animal babies best left in natureMADISON -- A human mother stays close to protect her infant most hours of a day, and people take comfort in seeing the baby?s caretaker present and in action. Like their human counterparts, wild animal mothers share the dedication to protect, to feed and to care for their babies. But state wildlife officials say people should know that wild animal mothers do this in different ways....
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Wisconsin and Michigan team up to boost Lake Michigan sturgeon populationPESHTIGO, Wis. - Eggs fisheries biologists collected from sturgeon spawning below the Peshtigo dam are now on their way to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan under a cooperative effort between Michigan and Wisconsin to boost a naturally reproducing lake sturgeon population in Lake Michigan....
http://dnr.wi.gov/news/DNRNews_article_Lookup.asp?id=2129Green Bay's sturgeon go high-techPESHTIGO, Wis. -- Nearly two dozen sturgeon are now equipped with high-tech transmitters as biologists continue to try and learn more about the prehistoric fish....
http://dnr.wi.gov/news/DNRNews_article_Lookup.asp?id=2130State officials urge proper recycling of electronics this springMADISON -- This April, bright spring flowers aren't the only things popping up in Wisconsin's ravines and roadside ditches. Department of Natural Resources wardens, local law enforcement officials and residents have been finding a growing number of computers, televisions and other electronics along roadsides and in farm fields and natural areas....
http://dnr.wi.gov/news/DNRNews_article_Lookup.asp?id=2131A golden opportunity to plant a legacyMADISON -- Olympic gold medalist Casey FitzRandolph has planted his legacy on the ice - and now he is planting a legacy on the Wisconsin landscape....
http://dnr.wi.gov/news/DNRNews_article_Lookup.asp?id=2132Eastern tent caterpillars are feeding on trees early this springMADISON -- State forest health specialists report that populations of the native eastern tent caterpillar are active at least three weeks early this year in southern and central Wisconsin,...
http://dnr.wi.gov/news/DNRNews_article_Lookup.asp?id=2133Fawn research intended to answer hunters' questions about deer mortalityMADISON - Dozens of volunteers assisted state wildlife researchers in capturing and placing radio-collars on 132 yearling and adult deer in January, February and March. Now the call is going out again for volunteers to help locate fawns born to does that were fitted with implant radio transmitters...
http://dnr.wi.gov/news/DNRNews_article_Lookup.asp?id=2134DNR's retired Hunt brothers are now hall of famersSTEVENS POINT, Wis. - Two brothers - innovative scientists who retired after brilliant careers with the state Department of Natural Resources - were simultaneously inducted Saturday into the Wisconsin Conservation Hall of Fame....
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