WDNR Weekly News - April 28, 2009
$1.3 million in grants to fight aquatic invasive species
MADISON - Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Secretary Matt Frank today announced that more than $1.3 million in state grants are headed to local communities to help them prevent the spread ... Read Full Article
http://dnr.wi.gov/news/DNRNews_Lookup.asp?id=167#art1Take Me Fishing campaign aims at getting more people out fishing
MADISON - Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Secretary Matt Frank today announced the state has begun its second year of the Take Me Fishing Campaign in partnership with the Recreational ... Read Full Article
http://dnr.wi.gov/news/DNRNews_Lookup.asp?id=167#art2$950,000 destined for private land habitat management in Driftless Area
MADISON - Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Secretary Matt Frank today announced the state has received a $559,602 from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's State Wildlife Grant Program to ... Read Full Article
http://dnr.wi.gov/news/DNRNews_Lookup.asp?id=167#art3New law restores longtime bass and musky season structures
MADISON - Wisconsin's longstanding season structures for bass and musky have been officially restored and the early-season barbless hook requirements eliminated for some catch-and-release seasons ... Read Full Article
http://dnr.wi.gov/news/DNRNews_Lookup.asp?id=167#art4Workshops set to train people to monitor stream water quality
MADISON - People interested in helping collect data to gauge the health of Wisconsin's streams and rivers are encouraged to attend one of more than a dozen workshops scheduled across the state ... Read Full Article
http://dnr.wi.gov/news/DNRNews_Lookup.asp?id=167#art5Public comment sought on environmental analysis of DNR's gypsy moth suppression plan
MADISON - Plans are being finalized for aerial spraying to suppress gypsy moths across 10,563 acres at 135 locations in 23 Wisconsin counties. An environmental assessment of the 2009 gypsy moth ... Read Full Article
http://dnr.wi.gov/news/DNRNews_Lookup.asp?id=167#art6Raise special purple loosestrife eating beetles to control the invader
MADISON - People who want to help reclaim local wetlands from purple loosestrife, an invasive plant, are again encouraged to raise a nd release special beetles that live solely on the plant and ... Read Full Article
http://dnr.wi.gov/news/DNRNews_Lookup.asp?id=167#art7Sponsor sign-up period open for Disabled Deer Hunts
Hunt set for Oct. 3-11, 2009 MADISON - The sign up period for landowners interested in sponsoring a deer hunt open only to hunters with disabilities is open through June 1. In 2009, the disabled ... Read Full Article
http://dnr.wi.gov/news/DNRNews_Lookup.asp?id=167#art8
