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• Reservations accepted

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  LANSING, Mich. (AP) Reservations are being accepted for state parks, recreation areas and harbors for some of Michigan’s 2010 camping and boating season. The state Department of Natural Resources says reservations for harbor slips, campsites, cabins, teepees and yurts are available six months in advance online or through a central call [...]

  Posted: December 07, 2009, 5:02pm EST
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• DNR Tables 16-Day Gun Deer Season Proposal

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  Good.

  The Department of Natural Resources has tabled its proposal for a 16-day gun deer hunt in 2010.

  The announcement came Friday in a letter from DNR secretary Matt Frank to the Natural Resources Board.

  “Given the preliminary harvest numbers for the 2009 nine-day hunt, we believe it is appropriate [...]

  Posted: December 05, 2009, 8:22am EST
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• Asian carp found in Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal

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  Proof that a destructive fish is close to the Great Lakes. The Illinois Department of Natural Resources reports that a bighead Asian carp was found in the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal just above the Lockport Lock and Dam, in the wake of a massive effort to poison fish in [...]

  Posted: December 04, 2009, 9:02pm EST
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• $6,500.00 reward offered in wolf poaching probe

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  WHITE PINE — Michigan Department of Natural Resources and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials are seeking information related to a recent wolf poaching case in Ontonagon County. The wolf was killed between Nov. 12 and 16. Its radio collar was found in the Stony Creek Area, east of the old [...]

  Posted: December 04, 2009, 1:00pm EST
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• No fatalities in Wisconsin gun-deer hunt

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  SUPERIOR (WPR) For the first time since 1973, no hunters were killed during the deer gun season this year.  This was only the second time that’s happened in the past 100 years. Things have changed quite a bit over the past century.  Department of Natural Resources Hunter Education Administrator Tim Lawhern [...]

  Posted: December 04, 2009, 9:00am EST
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• Reaction to deer harvest decline

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  SUPERIOR (WPR) Deer harvest numbers were down 29 percent this gun hunting season.  While some are calling this dramatic drop a bad year, others say there are things that made it a good season. A severe winter two years ago and deer management by the Department of Natural Resources has knocked [...]

  Posted: December 04, 2009, 8:58am EST
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• Wisconsin DNR missing CWD management goals

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  MADISON — The head of the state’s chronic wasting disease management program acknowledges the Department of Natural Resources has failed to meet goals for controlling the fatal deer infection. The Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism reported today that efforts to control the disease have cost nearly $41 million in state and [...]

  Posted: December 02, 2009, 9:00am EST
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• Board recommends traditional opening for deer hunt

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  Hunters spoke, and Wisconsin’s Natural Resources board listened. A 16-day gun deer hunt starting the Saturday before Thanksgiving will be the proposed 2010 deer season framework presented to the board at its Dec. 8 meeting, according to a Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources news release on Tuesday. A committee appointed by the [...]

  Posted: November 27, 2009, 5:02am EST
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• Deer harvest up a bit in bay area

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  While overall deer harvest numbers were down about 25 percent from the 2008 opening weekend, Ashland and Bayfield counties, ahem, bucked the trend and came in higher. Preliminary numbers from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources showed about 100,330 deer were taken Saturday and Sunday, which was about 33,500 fewer deer [...]

  Posted: November 25, 2009, 5:00pm EST
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• Green Bay resident accused of illegally killing wolf in U.P.

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  CRYSTAL FALLS, Mich. (AP) The Michigan Department of Natural Resources says a Wisconsin man illegally killed a wolf in Iron County earlier this month. DNR conservation officers found the animal dumped at the edge of a field south of Iron River on Nov. 17. Evidence at the scene led the officers to [...]

  Posted: November 25, 2009, 8:58am EST
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• 100,000 deer taken during opener

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  MADISON, Wis. (AP) State wildlife officials say hunters killed dramatically fewer deer during the opening weekend of Wisconsin’s traditional gun deer season than last year. The Department of Natural Resources says hunters took about 100,000 deer, down about 33 percent from 133,800 last year. Full Story Posted in Outdoors Tagged: Deer Hunting [...]

  Posted: November 24, 2009, 5:02pm EST
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• DNR Recommends 16 Day Gun Deer Hunt

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  MADISON - After eleven public hearings across the state and 6,500 written comments, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is recommending expanding the gun deer hunt from nine to sixteen days beginning in 2010.  The hunt would begin the Saturday before Thanksgiving.

  The 16-day season is intended to [...]

  Posted: November 24, 2009, 4:25pm EST
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• Deer Harvest Way Down

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  No shocker here.

  On Monday, the state Department of Natural Resources released preliminary statistics bearing out those field observations.

  
  Statewide, a total of 100,330 deer were bagged, down sharply from the 133,838 taken during the opening weekend of the 2008 hunt.

  
  In the DNR’s 15-county northeastern [...]

  Posted: November 23, 2009, 8:10pm EST
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• Doyle vetoes DNR reform legislation

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  Though not surprising, Gov. Jim Doyle’s veto of a bill that would strip future governors of the power to name the secretary of the Department of Natural Resources is truly disappointing. In explaining his veto, Gov. Doyle said:
  “The major environmental measures we’ve taken in the past seven years, [...]

  Posted: November 15, 2009, 6:20am EST
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• Doyle DNR Bill Veto Very Regrettable

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  He sent signals that it was coming, so while Gov. Jim Doyle's veto of the bill returning the power to appoint the Department of Natural Resources Secretary to the DNR board - - and reversing a Cabinet-expanding power grab engineered by then-Gov. Tommy Thompson - - it is disappointing.[...]

  Posted: November 13, 2009, 4:22pm EST
  

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• Furbearer registration hours for Wakefield field office of DNR

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  WAKEFIELD, Mich. – Department of Natural Resources officials today announced specific dates and times the Wakefield Field Office will be open for furbearer registration. Wildlife personnel will be available to register furbearers from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. CST on Nov. 30, Dec. 14, Dec. 28, Jan. 28, Feb. 8 and [...]

  Posted: November 13, 2009, 5:00am EST
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• DNR Secretary Appointment Struggle Is Too Much About Power, Not Policy

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  Word on the street is that Gov. Jim Doyle will veto the bill approved by both houses of the Legislature that would take the appointment of the Department of Natural Resources Secretary away from the Governor and return it to the DNR board.
  
  Republican legislators removed the appointment from [...]

  Posted: November 11, 2009, 11:22am EST
  

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• Fewer deer expected to be taken in this year’s hunt

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  The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources predicts a smaller deer harvest for the upcoming hunting season. Full Story Posted in Wisconsin Tagged: Deer Hunting [...]

  Posted: November 11, 2009, 5:00am EST
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• The U.P.’s resident cougar has been photographed

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  The Michigan Department of Natural Resources has verified two sets of mountain lion tracks found in the eastern Upper Peninsula. The DNR also confirmed the location of a trail camera photo of a mountain lion taken in the eastern U.P., according to a news release. The tracks were discovered in the DeTour [...]

  Posted: November 08, 2009, 5:02pm EST
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• Gov. Doyle should sign the DNR reform bill

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  It’s been a long time coming, but on Thursday the Legislature approved a bill that would strip authority of future governors to appoint the secretary of the Department of Natural Resources. The bill gives the authority to appoint the secretary of the DNR to the seven-member Natural Resources Board. [...]

  Posted: November 07, 2009, 4:29am EST
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• Gov. Doyle Should Sign The DNR Appointing Power Reform Bill

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  I hope that Gov. Jim Doyle signs the bill approved by both houses of the legislature that will return the selection of the Secretary of the Department of Natural Resources to the DNR board.
  
  When Doyle sought the Governor's office he had pledged to sign such a bill because [...]

  Posted: November 06, 2009, 4:29pm EST
  

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• MI DNR details discovery of cougar tracks

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  DETOUR — In the wake of discovery of cougar tracks in the eastern Upper Peninsula, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources has issued some tips for anyone who may confront one of the big cats. The tracks were discovered in the DeTour and Gulliver areas, and a photo of a cougar [...]

  Posted: November 06, 2009, 12:59pm EST
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• Deer, turkey hunting regs in Spanish

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  For the first time, the state Department of Natural Resources now has deer hunting regulations available in Spanish and Hmong on the DNR's website, according to the Wisconsin Whitetail News. In addition, the 2009 small game hunting regulations, including the fall 2009 and spring 2010 turkey regulations, are also available in [...]

  Posted: November 06, 2009, 8:00am EST
  

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