WDNR Weekly News June 5, 2012

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WDNR Weekly News  June 5, 2012

2012 spring turkey harvest up 6 percent from 2011
MADISON - Turkey hunters took advantage of comfortable hunting conditions this spring, judging by the preliminary registration total of 42,612 turkeys, a 6 percent increase over the spring 2011 turkey season....
http://dnr.wi.gov/news/DNRNews_article_Lookup.asp?id=2175

Northern bass zone harvest season opens June 16
WOODRUFF - Long story short: despite one of the earliest ice-outs on record, anglers will find smallmouth and largemouth bass in their typical late spring haunts when the 2012 northern bass zone harvest season opens June 16, state fisheries biologists say....
Grant boosts investigations into why bass are booming, walleye waning in some lakes
MADISON - Work to help understand and respond to why bass are booming and walleye waning in many northwestern Wisconsin lakes just got a big boost....
http://dnr.wi.gov/news/DNRNews_article_Lookup.asp?id=2176

Wisconsin receives $1.4 million to work on brownfield sites
MADISON - Wisconsin has received $1.4 in federal funding that state environmental officials will use to assess and clean up contaminated properties around the state....
http://dnr.wi.gov/news/DNRNews_article_Lookup.asp?id=2178

Great Lakes beach improvements, free app a boon for beachgoers
MADISON - Improvements at many of Wisconsin's Great Lakes beaches and a free smartphone application with the latest weather and water quality information are giving people more reasons to break out the beach towel and the sunscreen and head to the water?s edge, state beach officials say....
http://dnr.wi.gov/news/DNRNews_article_Lookup.asp?id=2179


Entries sought for Wisconsin wild turkey, pheasant, and waterfowl stamp design contests
MADISON - Wisconsin artists are encouraged to submit artwork for the 2013 wild turkey, pheasant, and waterfowl stamp design contests....
http://dnr.wi.gov/news/DNRNews_article_Lookup.asp?id=2180

More than 1,000 enroll in Learn to Hunt turkey events this spring
MADISON -- Kevin Naze of Algoma didn't know he'd help a novice hunter fulfill a family promise when he launched his 11th Learn to Hunt program in April, but the episode was another ?wildly rewarding experience? that he said makes these events worth the effort....
http://dnr.wi.gov/news/DNRNews_article_Lookup.asp?id=2181

Fishing for great outdoors ideas? Let WNR magazine help
MADISON -- The cover story in the June issue of Wisconsin Natural Resources magazine, "Sharing some walleye wisdom," features tips from a veteran angler to get people excited about chasing walleye, along with some ad
http://dnr.wi.gov/news/DNRNews_article_Lookup.asp?id=2182