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Hardwoood Hearings
A lot of the nooks and crannies in my frictionally wrinkled life are filled with duck calls. They call to me and I hear their voices between the spinning helter skelter as I wait for fall every year.
Preliminary tribal fish harvest in Oneida and Vilas
In the preliminary data collected by the Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission (GLIFWC), tribal fish harvest in Vilas and Oneida counties was estimated at 17,780 walleye and 149 muskie. Harvest ran from April 10 through May 15, and finalized numbers will be official in July.
Bugles in the Badger State
As within the last couple years, roughly 25,000 state residents recently submitted an elk tag application before the May 31 deadline. To remember a time when elk were on Wisconsin’s landscape prior to successful reintroduction, you have to go all the way back to 1886. That year, the last known record of an elk in the state was contained in a shipping receipt to a meat market after an elk was harvested just west of Stevens Point.
Preliminary tribal fish harvest in Oneida and Vilas counties
In the preliminary data collected by the Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission (GLIFWC), tribal fish harvest in Vilas and Oneida counties was estimated at 17,780 walleye and 149 muskie. Harvest ran from April 10 through May 15, and finalized numbers will be official in July.
Lakeland trap team fires off awards from season
The Lakeland trap team distributed season awards to athletes on June 1 at the Minocqua Gun Club. Amelia Wigant and Tyler Fadroski received Top Gun awards for having the highest individual conference score of all team members. Wigant scored a 181/225 throughout the nine week season, and Fadroski tallied 209/225. Fradoski’s 209 was also third in the Great North Trap Conference in the male varsity division and helped him earn first team all conference.
Hardwoood Hearings
An outdoor classroom like no other, the duck blind is a place where wonder and thought can roam free with whatever else shall cross its path. Within it’s uncharming and nonconforming walls, made of a melting pot of natural things, a student can hide from avian detection, but never from distraction. The wind will twist a tree that looks like a bird flying by, or an otter can playfully scoff at the smear of fake ducks downwind.
Molecular methods help improve understanding of American black duck genetics
If you were to compare an American black duck (black duck or American black duck) to perhaps the most well known waterfowl in the world, the mallard, there would be many similarities. The two species, along with several others, have a close-knit relationship due to a short evolutionary timeline.
Hardwoood Hearings
Give fault and reason to whatever or whoever you want, but it’s probably no secret we live in a fast world. There’s always another thing to do no matter how many tasks we cross off.
Hardwoood Hearings
“Walleye chop,” my dad shouted from the back of the canoe as we paddled in the wind across one of the many lakes in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA). The waves lapped against our canoe, and the trees tossed in the breeze along the jagged shore.
