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Wisconsin’s initial ’26 spring turkey kill 8.6% over 5-year average

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Turkey hunters registered 47,704 Badger State birds during the 2026 spring season, which ended May 26.
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources released preliminary harvest numbers that will likely increase once all data is finalized. Taylor Finger, DNR game bird ecologist, said that the preliminary total is down from the 50,291 birds harvested last year, but is 8.6% above the five-year average of 43,953.

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Remembering Wisconsin DNR biologists Ed Frank and Doris Rusch

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A large part of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resource’s knowledge base is stored in the memories of its retired employees, and part of that memory base was lost recently with the passing of Ed Frank and Doris Rusch.
The celebration of life for the two retired wildlife biologists will take place separately, but on the same day, Sunday, July 12.

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Chris Bartelt receives Wisconsin’s Shikar-Safari Club Wildlife Officer of the Year Award

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Chris Bartelt, law enforcement supervisor for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources in Woodruff, has received the 2025 Shikar-Safari Club International Wildlife Officer of the Year Award.
The award is presented each year to a game warden in each of the 50 states and 10 Canadian provinces whose efforts show outstanding performance and achievement.

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Coverts landowner workshop will run Aug. 6-9 in Woodruff, Wis.

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One of the best deals a private woodland owner can find these days is three free days of wildlife and land management opportunities at a Coverts workshop that shares information on forestry and wildlife management.
Coverts is an old English word for a dense thicket that provides shelter for wildlife. The program is sponsored by the Ruffed Grouse Society and UW-Madison Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology. It provides basic principles of forest and wildlife management.

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New Winnebago rule allows Wisconsin anglers to keep more invasive gobies; and biologists ask for flexibility on ‘imperiled’ walleye lakes

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Wisconsin’s Natural Resources Board (NRB) approved an emergency order allowing anglers to harvest more round gobies from Lake Winnebago at the board’s May 27 meeting.
Kari Lee-Zimmermann, fisheries regulations and policy specialist for the DNR, explained that the round goby is a non-native invasive fish that can displace native fish.
“They are not established in the Winnebago system, but they have been found,” Zimmermann said.

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Wisconsin DNR is offering new elk subunits as herd grows

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Wisconsin’s elk herd is expected to total more than 600 animals this spring, and the fall hunt includes new subunits in the hunting zones.
The Natural Resources Board (NRB) received the update on the elk population at its May 27 meeting, just as biologists received notice of the birth of a new elk calf the night before.

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Mom, daughters ‘triple-up’ on first birds during Wisconsin hunt

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Going three-for-three is a pretty good average for turkey hunters, and three young ladies recorded that perfect score during a recent learn-to-hunt (LTH) outing.
Mother Libby Stark, 38, and sisters Ava Stark, 12, and Riley Stark, 10, all of Prairie du Chien, Wis., participated in the Bluff Country Long Spurs Chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation LTH program in Crawford County. Each shot their first turkey the morning of March 29 while hunting with mentors.

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Nelson Lake, Hayward area treat anglers well on Wisconsin’s fishing opener

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The 2026 inland fishing season dawned Saturday, May 2, over the Hayward area for the 60th Wisconsin Governor’s Fishing Opener, this year held on the 2,716-acre Nelson Lake in Sawyer County.
It was a distinctly chilly morning, but a sunny sky eventually greeted anglers for the opening weekend of the fishing season, and, since the event visited Nelson Lake, walleyes were not the chief target of many anglers. The lake is better known for its largemouth bass, northern pike, and panfish fishery, though it also holds walleyes.

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Wisconsin’s waterfowl bag limits set for 2026 season

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Taylor Finger, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) game bird specialist, told the Natural Resources Board (NRB) that spring waterfowl population surveys show slight increases the past five or six years; however, the reason may be that warmer spring weather may have included migrating birds in the surveys rather than just local populations.

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