July 2008 - Wisconsin Wildlife Federation

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JULY 2008
VOLUME 35
NUMBER 7
Cooperative Study Suggests Wisconsin’s Black Bear
Population is Larger Than Thought!
P
reliminary results of a two-year
cooperative study of Wisconsin
black bears suggest that the population may be two times or more larger than
currently thought. Biologists stress that the
new estimate comes from a half finished
study and may change when data from the
second year of the study are analyzed. Early
results are encouraging, however, and indicate Wisconsin continues to provide quality
habitat for large mammals like bears.
“This is good news,” said Keith Warnke,
Department of Natural Resources deer and
bear ecologist. “It means we have a healthy
bear population, and we may be able to
expand bear hunting opportunity. The other
good news is that more people will have
opportunities to see these great animals in
the wild.”
The two-year, DNR-funded study was
conducted by University of WisconsinMadison Wildlife Ecology graduate student
Dave MacFarland under the guidance of Dr.
Timothy Van Deelen.
“The preliminary results are comparable
to bear densities in Minnesota and
Michigan’s Upper Peninsula,” said Van
Deelen. “Dave and I spent a good deal of
time rechecking our calculations and we’re
eager to see if the results hold when the second year of data are incorporated.”
In the bear study, some 3,500 baits
marked with tetracycline were set out across
the state’s bear range in 2006. Tetracycline,
when ingested, is harmless to bears but
leaves a telltale line in a bear’s bones.
Successful bear hunters in 2006 and 2007
were asked to provide a section of a rib bone
from bears they harvested for analysis.
From those samples, the biologists were able
to use a formula to calculate the estimated
bear population.
Using tetracycline is a variation on a
wildlife population estimating technique
known as mark and recapture. Other examples of mark and recapture are banding of
waterfowl and songbirds and radio collars or
radio implants on other species. When
hunters report harvesting a banded game
bird or biologists recapture a banded songbird, that information is used in a model to
estimate total populations.
Currently, biologists track black bear populations by placing a series of baits on routes
in each county throughout the black bear’s
range and record which are consumed by
bears over a week long observation period.
Biologists use these observations to help
build a population model that also takes into
account hunter harvest, hunter success
rates, bear population data and historical
harvest rates to generate a population estimate. This model estimates the current
black bear population in Wisconsin to be at
about 13,000.
“It is important to keep in mind that
these models both provide information for us
to consider when managing the bear population, and both are important to scientific
bear management,” Warnke said. “We are
always working to improve the science we
have to manage wildlife populations. The
department funded the research to improve
our bear population estimate and expand
the science base we have on this species. The
Wisconsin Bear Hunters Association was a
key collaborator on this study and many
members participated in gathering data and
contributing research supplies. I’d also like
to thank Dave MacFarland for organizing
and conducting this research and his help in
enlisting cooperation from the bear
hunters.”
In the tetracycline study, a much larger
number of bait stations were used and the
bait stations were constructed in a way that
only bears could reach the bait. The new
study also carefully adjusted the amount of
bait so that a single bear would likely consume all of it in one visit, greatly reducing
the possibility that one bait might mark two
bears. By comparing the number of baits
consumed in a season to the number of harvested bears showing the tetracycline marker in their bones, scientists were able to
calculate the new population estimate.
Officials stress that these are preliminary findings and it is too early to draw conclusions or implement changes. The earliest
possible changes that would impact bear
hunting permit availability would be for the
2009 hunting season. Adjusting black bear
population goals will necessitate changes to
administrative rules and involve public
meetings, and Natural Resources Board and
legislative approval.
“When the final results are in we’ll be
able to use this information to assess bear
population goals and adapt our bear management program,” says Warnke. “Any
changes to bear management policies will be
done carefully, with public input and only
after thorough analysis of potential impacts.
The first priority is and always will be conservation of the resource.”
“Our bear population is expanding and
one benefit of that is that people can expect
to see bears in areas outside what is thought
of as traditional range,” Warnke said.
“Despite bears’ general shyness toward
humans, people in the central and southwest
areas of the state likely can expect to see
more evidence of bears as they disperse,
looking for new territories.”
Adult black bears typically weigh 250 to
500 pounds for males (boars) and 200 to 450
pounds for females (sows). Infant bears,
called cubs, are born quite tiny but by the
time they are 2 months old, they weigh
about 6 pounds. Females give birth to two or
three cubs in January or February when
they are still in their winter sleep. When
standing on all four paws, adult bears measure 2 to 3 feet tall at their shoulders.
Tips for living safely with black bears
Biologists offer the following advice for
avoiding unwanted encounters with black
bears:
• Never feed bears – the bear will not
forget the feeding experience and will
return, possibly becoming a nuisance.
• Make bird feeders inaccessible to bears
by hanging them at least 10 feet off the
ground and 5 feet away from tree trunks or
on a limb that will not support a bear.
• Bring feeders in around mid-April
when bears emerge hungry from their winter dens.
• Keep garbage cans indoors if possible.
• Bring in pet food at night.
• Do not keep food in your tent if you are
camping.
• Store camp food and cooking utensils
away from your campsite.
• Dispose of food scraps in closed containers away from the campsite – not in the
fire.
If you encounter a black bear:
• Make noise – let the bear know you are
there so you don’t surprise it.
• If you happen to surprise a black bear
at close range, back away slowly or, if available, get into a vehicle or structure until the
bear leaves the area.
• Leash your dogs in known bear country.
• Respect black bears as wild animals
and enjoy them safely - from a distance.
Nuisance black bears
The agency responsible for nuisance
black bears in Wisconsin is the U.S
Department of Agriculture – Wildlife
Services. Report nuisance bears to them at:
USDA-WS, Waupun district
1201 Storbeck Dr.
Waupun, WI 53963
1-800-433-0663*
920-324-4514
or
2008
Youth Bear Hunt Essay
Contest Winner
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Hailey Lee Hoepner
Age 12 - Lomira, WI
Congratulations!
USDA-WS, Rhinelander district
PO Box 1064
Rhinelander, WI 54501
1-800-228-1368*
715-369-5221
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WISCONSERVATION
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OFFICERS
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President Lil Pipping, 562A Crestwood Dr., Elkhart Lake, WI 53020, (920) 876-4312. Email:
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First Vice President Jack Nissen, 1811 Ottawa Ave., Dousman, WI 53118, (262) 370-8154 cell.
Email: [email protected] *Alt NWF Affiliate Delegate
Second Vice President Chuck Matyska, Route 1 5055 Cty V, Cecil, WI 54111, (715) 745-6382.
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Secretary Tom Nissen, 231 E. Ottawa Ave., Dousman, WI 53118, (262) 719-5295. Email:
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July 2008
ASSOCIATE DIRECTORS
Jake Macholl, Amery, WI
Paul Frater, Algoma, WI
Bob Chojnowski, Plover, WI
Larry Laehn, Greenville, WI
Craig Challoner, Omro, WI
Jim Huhn, Watertown, WI
Bret Loescher, Watertown, WI
Sue Meyer, Kewaskum, WI
Steve Pease, Sullivan, WI, (262) 719-9623.
Tom Nissen, Dousman, WI
Lil Pipping, Elkhart Lake, WI
HONORARY DIRECTORS
Art Jorgenson
Catherine Koss, Lake O’Lakes, WI
Vern Mangless
Jim Mense, Menomonie, WI
Ray Rheinschmidt
J.L. Schneider
Betty Schneider, Oshkosh, WI
Art Seidel, Brookfield, WI
Al Kube, Cochrane, WI
Joe Zanter, Sparta, WI
Bucky Kilishek, Menasha, WI
Martha Kilishek, Menasha, WI
Mary Cassidy, Plainfield, WI
Ken Zettlemeier, Waukesha, WI
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George Meyer, 201 Randolph Dr., Madison, WI 53717, (608) 516-5545. Email:
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS
DISTRICT 1
*Connie/Allan Pribnow, Port Wing, WI, (715) 7743301.
DISTRICT 2
Larry Vanderhoef, Plainfield, WI, (715) 366-2453.
DISTRICT 3
*Russell Hitz, Wheeler, WI, (715) 632-2143.
Dave Hraychuck, Balsam Lake, WI, (715) 485-3362.
Marj Roach, Augusta, WI, (715) 286-2768.
DISTRICT 8
*Jack Nissen, Dousman, WI, (262) 370-8154.
Mike Rynearson, Oconomowoc, WI, (414) 313-2079.
John Wagner, Oconomowoc, WI, (262) 560-1230.
DISTRICT 9
*Roger Borkowski, South Milwaukee, WI, (414) 571-0002.
Richard Lazarczyk, West Allis, WI, (414) 321-5750.
Jim Spielbauer, Black River Falls, WI.
DISTRICT 10
Al Phelan, Madison, WI, (608) 241-7538.
DISTRICT 11
Richard Baudhuin, Sturgeon Bay, WI, (920) 743-2581.
Bill Capelle, Green Bay, WI, (920) 863-3759.
*Larry Freitag, Sheboygan, WI, (920) 458-4117.
DISTRICT 4
*Laura Huber, Arpin, WI, (715) 884-2774.
Jerry Knuth, Plover, WI, (715) 344-0017.
Dave Verhage, Plover, WI, (715) 344-3497.
DISTRICT 5
George Borchert, Van Dyne, WI, (920) 922-1409.
*Daniel Gries, Menasha, WI, (920) 725-0052.
Robert H. Kirk, Omro, WI, (920) 685-5254.
DISTRICT 6
Dennis Reinhardt, Osseo, WI, (715) 597-3535.
John Wetzel, Holman, WI, (608) 526-4238.
DISTRICT 7
Dave Chingway, Watertown, WI, (920) 261-0379.
Don Hammes, Middleton, WI, (608) 836-1205.
Tobias Kowalski, Sun Prairie, WI, (920) 285-5485.
DISTRICT 12
*Jim Weishan, Wabeno, WI, (715) 473-6013.
Chuck Matyska, Cecil, WI, (715) 745-6382.
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WISCONSERVATION
July 2008
EPA Encourages Americans to Save on Summer Cooling Costs
Proper Use of Programmable Thermostats
W
ashington, D.C. - June 5,
2008 – Today, EPA is launching an effort to help
Americans save on their summer cooling
bills with advice on how to properly program their thermostat. When used correctly,
Energy
Star
qualified
programmable thermostats can save
money on energy bills and help fight
global warming by reducing greenhouse
gas emissions. If consumers manage
their heating and cooling schedules
accordingly, a programmable thermostat
can save about $180 a year on home
energy bills.
“This summer, you don’t have to
sweat hot temperatures and high energy
bills,” said EPA Administrator Stephen
L. Johnson. “By installing and properly
using programmable thermostat, you
can stay cool while keeping more cash in
your pocket.”
The average household spends $1,900
a year on energy bills, nearly half of
which goes to heating and cooling. EPA
recommends proper use guidelines for
Energy Star qualified programmable
thermostats, as well as other energy saving tips for the summer.
You can program your thermostat for
savings this summer by:
• Raising your home’s usual temperature setting by 7 degrees when you’re
away and 4 degrees when you’re asleep.
• Use the “Vacation” and “Hold” features to manage temperatures while
you’re away from home for an extended
period.
• Resist the urge to override the
thermostat settings drastically, as this
will not cool your home any faster and
can cause your system to work harder,
costing more on your energy bills.
EPA is also providing consumers with
Permits Needed Before Using Chemicals or
Herbicides on Aquatic Vegetation
S
POONER, Wis. — Waterfront
owners buying chemicals for
weed treatments along and in
their shorelines should know they need a
Department of Natural Resources permit before using the product. The permit
is necessary to insure proper use of the
chemical and prevent harm to the lake
or stream.
“Aquatic plants are important parts
of a lake’s ecosystem – they provide oxygen for the fishery, habitat and water
quality,” said Tom Jerow, waters media
leader for the DNR’s northern region.
“But we recognize that too much of a
good thing is a problem and shore owners sometimes need to control plants. We
use the permits to make sure that plant
treatments are applied at the best times
and in the best way to protect the lake.”
A number of advertisements have
been placed in the media recently
announcing chemicals that “kill weeds.”
The ads, however, fail to mention the
need for a Department of Natural
Resources permit and other important
information.
Jerow said that only those chemicals
registered with the U.S. EPA and the
Wisconsin Department of Agriculture,
Trade, and Consumer Protection
(DATCP) can be used on Wisconsin
waterways. He added that when controlling aquatic plants with chemicals, it is
important to correctly identify the plants
and the appropriate chemical beforehand and to be certain that treatment
occurs at the proper timing and dosage.
To apply chemicals in liquid form, the
applicator must be licensed with the
DATCP. It is often best to contract with
a commercial applicator.
The only time a permit is not required
to control aquatic plants is when a
shoreline owner hand-pulls or rakes
plants, except wild rice, from his/her
shoreline. That work can occur in an
area that is 30 feet or less in width
extending from the shore to open water.
Non-native invasive plants (Eurasian
water milfoil, curly leaf pondweed, and
purple loosestrife) may be manually
removed beyond 30 feet without a permit, as long as native plants are not
harmed. Wild rice removal always
requires a permit and is only allowed in
very restricted circumstances after consultation with Tribal Natural Resources
Departments.
“Working together to assure good
management of aquatic plants, we can
maintain the qualities of a waterway
that attracted the shoreline owner to the
area in the first place,” Jerow said.
President’s Message
Vol. II Part II
W
ell by now everyone knows
that the June board meeting
had to be canceled due to
major highways being flooded out or
washed out. Now my question is, “Does
this have anything to do with Global
Warming?” I attended a graduation
party yesterday, (Sat. evening June 14th)
and to my surprise many of the guests
there were discussing the climate
change and how things are really starting to affect their areas. This impressed
me as those people discussing this topic
seemed to be quite informed on the
issues. Gee, then how come our politicians just can’t get the picture? Here is
the latest e-mail I received stating what
the Federal Government did on this
topic:
Today, (6-6) our supporters in the
Senate made a strong stand for climate action, but were unable to
break through the filibuster and
delay tactics that have prevented
serious action on the Climate
Security Act. A procedural vote
requiring 60 votes to end the filibuster and set up final action failed
on a vote 48-36.
This means the bill will now be
pulled from the floor for the year.
Several Senators who could not
attend, including Kennedy, McCain,
Coleman, Clinton, Obama, and
Biden, provided statements that
they would have supported our
efforts. Had these Senators voted,
the margin for climate action would
have risen to 54 – a solid majority of
the U.S. Senate. We had a good day,
but as we knew going into today’s
vote, the 60 vote margin was likely
to be a few votes away in this
Congress.
We really need to continue to educate
our politicians on this important issue. I
believe that with the devastating winter
we had here in the mid-west and now
the severe flooding, no one can deny that
this is part of the big picture “Global
Warming”. I ask that you contact your
local politicians and ask that they support a bill to work on climate change
locally and world wide.
By the time you read this, you will
already know what WWF did to replace
or update you on the missing meeting in
June. We, the exec. board, made the decision to cancel the meeting to protect all
who would of tried to attend. We need to
be safe and concerned for others first,
everything else will take care of itself.
Until we see each other at the next
meeting, stay dry and safe.
Sincerely yours in conservation,
Lil Pipping, President
important tips and resources to help
them get their energy use on the right
track. By visiting: http://www.energystar.
gov/pts consumers will find:
• Proper use guidelines for setting
and maintaining their thermostat, proper installation tips and features of
Energy Star qualified models.
• A new video podcast that guides
homeowners through choosing the programmable thermostat that is right for
you and setting it for maximum energy
savings.
Additional ways to save this summer:
• Schedule an annual, pre-season
maintenance checkup with a licensed
contractor to ensure your cooling system
is operating efficiently and safely – as
well as identify problems early.
• Be sure to clean or change your
system’s air filter according to the manufacturer’s instructions — generally
once a month.
• Find and seal air leaks that cause
drafts and make your cooling system
work overtime.
• Adjust your thermostat and use
your ceiling fan in the counter-clockwise
direction to create a wind-chill effect,
making you “feel” cooler for additional
energy and dollar savings. But remember, ceiling fans cool people, not rooms.
So turn the ceiling fan off when you
leave the room.
Businesses can also benefit from the
proper use of programmable thermostats
and facility controls, particularly during
the summer months. Learn more about
programmable thermostats and other
tips to save energy in the workplace this
summer at: http://www.energystar.gov/
bizcooling.
About Energy Star: Energy Star was
introduced by EPA in 1992 as a voluntary, market-based partnership to reduce
greenhouse gas emissions through energy efficiency. Today, the Energy Star label
is now on over 50 different kinds of products as well as new homes and commercial buildings. In 2007 alone, Americans,
with the help of Energy Star, saved more
than $16 billion on their utility bills
while reducing the greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to those of 27 million
vehicles. For more information, visit:
http://www.energystar.gov.
Green Tier Welcomes Ripon Printers
WDNR Release 6/10
R
IPON, Wis. – Ripon Printers
today became a Wisconsin
Green Tier participant, officially joining other forward-thinking companies voluntarily reducing their impact
on the environment by going beyond current rules and regulations.
“Ripon Printers bring economic and
environmental performance together in
ways that are not only sustainable but
also ways that improve their competitive
position,” said Department of Natural
Resources Secretary Matt Frank. “We
are pleased to have Ripon Printers in the
Green Tier Program with their energetic
pursuit of superior environmental performance and their contribution to building Wisconsin’s competitive advantage
for environmental performance companies.”
Ripon Printers serves small- to midsized catalog marketers and publishers,
producing catalogs and directories as
well as manuals and soft-cover educational products. Founded in 1962 with
just 13 employees, Ripon Printers
employs more than 330 and is equipped
with technologies from pre-media
through fulfillment and distribution.
Ripon Printers already has exceeded
compliance with environmental laws in
numerous areas. The company has
reduced energy consumption by upgrading lighting fixtures and saved 1 million
kilowatt hours of energy by installing a
system limiting air conditioning. They
annually recycle 10 million pounds of
paper, 520,000 pounds of cardboard,
60,000 pounds of plastic and 65,000
pounds of aluminum.
As a Green Tier participant, Ripon
Printers will reduce volatile organic
compound (VOC) emissions, pursue further reductions in energy use and water
use, as well as strive for certification by
the Forest Stewardship Council to
ensure their paper products come from
well managed forests.
“We are pleased to be accepted as a
Green Tier participant,” said Jeff
Cottrell, Ripon Printers’ Project
Engineer. “Continuous improvement and
waste minimization efforts are focal
points of our business. We will strive to
continually improve our environmental
performance and work toward becoming
a more sustainable printer.”
In 2004, Gov. Jim Doyle signed Green
Tier into law to encourage a collaborative approach to environmental performance between the DNR and Wisconsin
businesses. As part of Green Tier,
Wisconsin organizations voluntarily
commit to reduce their environmental
footprint by developing and implementing environmental management systems. These systems act as a roadmap,
presenting organizations the opportunity to adopt new technologies and practices to continually improve their
environmental performance.
Ripon Printers is a Tier 1 participant
in Green Tier. In exchange for a commitment to superior environmental performance, the DNR grants benefits to Tier 1
participants including recognition, a logo
used by all Green Tier companies, and a
collaborative relationship to assure compliance and superior environmental performance. DNR and Ripon Printers see
this relationship as an advantage for
both business and the environment.
For more information on Green Tier
and Ripon Printers’ efforts, visit http://
dnr.wi.gov/org/caer/cea/environmental/
participants/ripon/index.htm.
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WISCONSERVATION
July 2008
Walleye Bag Limits Will Increase On Some Northern Lakes
WDNR Release 6/9/08
D
aily walleye bag limits will
increase June 13 on 258 lakes in
the Wisconsin Ceded Territory to
reflect spring spearing harvest by six
Wisconsin bands of Chippewa Indians.
A daily bag limit of two walleye will
increase to three walleye per day on 93
lakes. In addition, 165 lakes will go from an
initial bag limit of two or three walleyes
per day to the state daily bag limit of five,
according to Joe Hennessy, who coordinates
the treaty fisheries management program
for the Department of Natural Resources.
“This is good news for sport anglers and
for local and state economies,” said DNR
Secretary Matthew Frank. “Increasing bag
limits after the spring spearing season –
the time when Chippewa bangs make most
of their yearly harvest – gives sport anglers
more opportunities and more reasons to
head north for a great day of fishing on
Wisconsin waters while assuring that the
tribes maintain their harvest rights.”
Of the 152 lakes with bag limits less
than five, one lake will have a bag limit of
one walleye per day, 66 lakes will have a
bag limit of two walleye per day, and 85
lakes will have a daily bag of three walleye
per day. The six Chippewa tribes together
declared a harvest of 51,683 walleye for
2008 and had harvested 27,856 as of May
19, 2008.
2008-2009 Revised Ceded Territory Walleye Bag Limits
Inland waters not listed below have a total daily bag limit of 5, unless listed in the regulation pamphlet as a special regulation water. THESE BAG LIMITS ARE EFFECTIVE FROM JUNE 13, 2008 TO MARCH
1, 2009 INCLUSIVE.
The total daily bag limit for walleyes is five. If the lake you are fishing has a bag limit less than five, you can fish other lakes to fill your daily bag limit. While fishing, you cannot possess fish in excess of that
lake’s daily bag limit. Therefore, remember to remove all fish from your boat prior to fishing on a second lake that also has a restricted bag limit.
ASHLAND COUNTY
BAG LIMIT
Bear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Gordon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Mineral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
BARRON COUNTY
Bear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Beaver Dam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Big Dummy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Big Moon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Duck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Granite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Horseshoe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Lake Chetek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Lower Devils . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Lower Turtle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Lower Vermilion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Mud. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Pokegama. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Poskin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Prairie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Red Cedar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Sand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Silver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Spring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Staples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Upper Devils . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Upper Turtle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
BAYFIELD COUNTY
Atkins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Bladder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Diamond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Long . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Middle Eau Claire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Namekagon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Owen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Pike Chain (includes Buskey Bay,
Hart, Millicent, and Twin Bear
Lakes). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Siskiwit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Upper Eau Claire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
BURNETT COUNTY
Big McKenzie (Burnett/Washburn Cos.) . . 2
Clam River Flowage . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Devils . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Dunham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Lipsett . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Little Yellow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Rooney . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Round . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Sand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Yellow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
CHIPPEWA COUNTY
Chain (Chippewa/Rusk Cos.) . . . . . 3
Holcombe Flowage. . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Long . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Wissota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
DOUGLAS COUNTY
Amnicon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Bond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Dowling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Lower Eau Claire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Minnesuing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Nebagamon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Upper St. Croix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Whitefish. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
DUNN COUNTY
Tainter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
FLORENCE COUNTY
Emily. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Fay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Fisher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Halsey. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Keyes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Patten . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Pine River Flowage . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Sea Lion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
FOREST COUNTY
Arbutus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Birch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Butternut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Crane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Franklin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Ground Hemlock. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Howell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Jungle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
King . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Lily . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Little Long . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Lucerne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Metonga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Mole . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Pickerel (Forest/Langlade Cos.) . . . 3
Pine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Range Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Roberts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Silver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Stevens. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Trump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
IRON COUNTY
Echo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Fisher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Gile Flowage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Lake of the Falls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Long . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Pine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Spider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Trude. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Turtle-Flambeau Flowage . . . . . . . . 3
LANGLADE COUNTY
Big Twin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Duck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Enterprise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Goto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Jessie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Lawrence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Moccasin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Mueller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Otter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Pickerel (Forest/Langlade Cos.) . . . 3
Rolling Stone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Rose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Sawyer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Summit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Upper Post . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
White . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
LINCOLN COUNTY
Alexander . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Alice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Deer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Jersey City Flowage . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Mohawksin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Rice/Nokomis Chain (includes Rice
River Flowage, Nokomis and
Bridge Lakes) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Spirit River Flowage . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
MARATHON COUNTY
Big Eau Pleine Reservoir . . . . . . . . 3
MARINETTE COUNTY
Big Newton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Caldron Falls Reservoir . . . . . . . . . 3
High Falls Reservoir . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Hilbert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Johnson Falls Flowage . . . . . . . . . . 5
Little Newton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Oneonta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Sandstone Flowage . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
OCONTO COUNTY
Archibald. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Bass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Bear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Boot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Boulder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Boundary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Crooked . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Horn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Maiden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Munger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Paya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Townsend Flowage . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Waubee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Wheeler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
ONEIDA COUNTY
Aldridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Alva. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Baker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Bass (124 ac; T37N-R9E-S31). . . . 3
Bear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Bearskin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Big Carr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Big Fork . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Big . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Big Stone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Birch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Bird . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Blue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Bolger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Boom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Booth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Bridge (Rice/Nokomis Chain) . . . . . 3
Brown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Buckskin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Buffalo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Burrows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Carrol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Chain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Clear (846 ac; T39N-R7E-S16) . . . 3
Clear (36 ac; T36N-R9E-S10) . . . . 5
Clear (30 ac; T37N-R7E-S24) . . . . 5
Clear (62 ac; T38N-R8E-S2) . . . . . 5
Clearwater . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Columbus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Creek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Crescent (612 ac; T36N-R8E-S21) 2
Crooked . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Cunard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Currie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Dam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Deer (177 ac; T38N-R11E-S10) . . . 3
Diamond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Dog (37 ac; T39N-R8E-S18) . . . . . 5
Dog (216 ac; T38N-R11E-S1) . . . . 3
E Horsehead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
E Twin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Echo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Emma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Fifth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Fish. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Fourmile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Fourth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Franklin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Fuller. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Garth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
George . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Gilmore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Hancock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Hasbrook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Hat Rapids Flowage . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Hemlock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Hill. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Hixon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Hodstradt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Indian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Island . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Jennie Webber . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Julia (238 ac; Rhinelander). . . . . . . 5
Julia (401 ac; T38N-R11E-S2) . . . . 3
Kate Pier. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Kathan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Katherine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Kawaguesaga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Killarney . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Laurel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Little Bearskin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Little Carr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Little Fork . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Lone Stone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Long (620 ac; T39 R11E S8) . . . . . 2
Long (113 ac; T37N-R7E-S10). . . . 5
Long (56 ac; T39N-R10E-S3). . . . . 5
Lost (155 ac; T38N-R9E-S24) . . . . 5
Lower Kaubashine . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Lumen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Manson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Maple . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Margaret . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Marion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Mars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
McCormick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Medicine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Mercer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Mid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Mildred . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Minocqua . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Moccasin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Moen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Mud (41 ac; T38N-R7E-S8) . . . . . . 5
Mud (124 ac; T38N-R11E-S1) . . . . 3
Muskellunge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Muskie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
N Nokomis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
N Two . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Oatmeal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Oneida . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Paradise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Pelican . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Pickerel (736 ac; T39N-R8E-S18) . 3
Pickerel (49 ac; T38N-R9E-S31) . . 5
Pier (257 ac; T37N-R4E-S3) . . . . . 5
Pine (203 ac; T39N-R4E-S36) . . . . 5
Pine (240 ac; T37N-R9E-S4) . . . . . 5
Planting Ground . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Prairie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Rainbow Flowage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Range Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Rhinelander Flowage . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Rocky Run Flowage . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Round . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
S Pine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
S Two . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Sand (540 ac; T39N R9E S20). . . . 3
Scotchman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Second . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Sevenmile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Seventeen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Shepard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Skunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Soo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Spider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Spirit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Squash (392 ac; T36N-R7E-S24). . 3
Squaw (Vilas/Oneida Cos.) . . . . . . 3
Squirrel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Stella. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Stone (248 ac; T39N-R4E-S27) . . . 5
Sunday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Sunset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Swamp (296 ac; T36N-R6E-S6) . . . 5
Swamsauger. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Sweeney . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Tamarack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Third . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Thompson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Thunder (172 ac; T37N R9E S32) . . 3
Thunder (1768 ac; T38N R10E S3) . 3
Tim Lynn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Tom Doyle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Tomahawk Lake Chain (includes
Tomahawk and Little Tomahawk). 3
Townline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Turtle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Two Sisters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Upper Kaubashine . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Venus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Virgin (276 ac; T38N-R11E-S14) . . 3
W Horsehead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
W Twin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Walters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Whitefish. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Wildwood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Willow Flowage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Willow Lake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
POLK COUNTY
Balsam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Bear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Big Butternut. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Big Round. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Half Moon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Indianhead Flowage . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
N Pipe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Pipe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Sand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Wapogasset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
PRICE COUNTY
Butternut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Duroy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Long (T37N R01W S14). . . . . . . . . 3
Pike. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Round . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Solberg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Turner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Wilson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
RUSK COUNTY
Chain (Chippewa/Rusk Cos.) . . . . . 3
Dairyland Reservoir . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Island . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Potato . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Pulaski . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Sand (Chippewa/Rusk Cos.) . . . . . . 3
SAWYER COUNTY
Barber. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Chetac . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Chippewa Flowage . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Connors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Durphee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Grindstone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Lac Courte Oreilles . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Little Round . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Lost Land . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Nelson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Round . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Sissabagama . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Spider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Teal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Tiger Cat Flowage . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Whitefish. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Windfall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
TAYLOR COUNTY
Rib . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
VILAS COUNTY
Alder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Annabelle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Anvil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Ballard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Big Arbor Vitae . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Big (T42N R06E S04 - Hwy K). . . . 3
Big (T43N R08E S24 - Cisco
Chain) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Big Crooked . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Big Muskellunge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Big Portage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Big Sand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Big St. Germain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Birch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Black Oak . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Boulder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Catfish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Clear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Crab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Cranberry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Eagle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Fishtrap. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Harris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
High . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Horsehead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Island . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Jag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Kentuck. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Lac Vieux Desert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Laura . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Little Arbor Vitae . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Little John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Little St. Germain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Little Star . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Little Trout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Long . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Lost Canoe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Lynx . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Mamie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Manitowish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
North Turtle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Oxbow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Palmer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Papoose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Plum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Presque Isle Chain (includes
Averil, Presque Isle and Van
Vliet Lakes). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Razorback. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Rest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Scattering Rice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Snipe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
South Turtle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Spider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Squaw (Vilas/Oneida Cos.) . . . . . . 3
Star . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Tenderfoot. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Trout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Twin Lake Chain (includes North
and South Twin Lakes) . . . . . . . . 2
White Sand (T42N R7E S27;
Highway K) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Wild Rice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Wildcat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
WASHBURN COUNTY
Balsam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Bass (130 ac; T37N-R10W-S7) . . . 5
Bass (188 ac; T40N-R10W-S1) . . . 3
Big Bass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Birch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Dunn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Long . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Middle McKenzie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Minong Flowage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Nancy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Shell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Stone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
SPECIAL SIZE AND BAG LIMITS
FOR LAC DU FLAMBEAU RESERVATION WATERS
WALLEYE: There is a bag limit of
three and a minimum length limit of
18" for walleye on the following
waters:
1. Shishebogama Lake, Oneida
County;
2. Big Crooked Lake, T41N R5E
S22, Vilas County;
3. Gunlock Lake, Vilas County;
4. Lac du Flambeau Chain, including
Big Crawling Stone, Little Crawling
Stone, Little Sand, Fence,
Flambeau, Long, Interlaken,
Moss, North Placid, Pokegama,
South Placid, To-To-Tom, White
Sand (T41N R5E S27) and
Whitefish Lakes and all connecting waters, Vilas County;
5. Little Trout Lake, Vilas County.
MUSKELLUNGE:
There is a minimum length limit for
muskellunge of 40" on all waters that
lie within the Lac du Flambeau reservation.
5
WISCONSERVATION
July 2008
Using Several Methods Provides Best Control of Gypsy Moths
A
erial spraying to control gypsy
moth in Wisconsin has been
completed for this year, but
state forestry officials say the end of aerial spraying doesn’t mean the end of
options for controlling this tree-defoliating pest.
“Gypsy moth outbreaks are best controlled using a combination of management tools,” says Andrea Diss-Torrance,
Suppression Program Coordinator with
the Department of Natural Resources.
Diss-Torrance says aerial spraying of
insecticide typically kills 85 to 95 percent of the population, and that alone is
usually enough to prevent defoliation
and even nuisance problems. However, if
the population is very high it may be
necessary for people who want to protect
their tree to supplement the spray with
other management tools to get good control.
“The weather last summer was very
favorable for gypsy moth and we started
this year with a bumper crop of eggs in
some areas,” Diss-Torrance says. “Even if
you kill 95 percent of a very high population with a spray, you may still be left
with too many caterpillars and need to
consider using additional management
tools to get the control you want.”
People should check trees now for egg
masses from this spring. Pictures of egg
masses can be found on the state’s gypsy
moth control program Web site at [gypsymoth.wi.gov] (exit DNR)
Egg masses will be torn up and pale
beige by early June, and any caterpillars
that could have hatched this spring will
have done so. Undersides of large
branches of oaks are a favorite spot for
gypsy moths to lay their eggs. If there
are more than 100 egg masses on a tree,
it indicates there was a very high starting population of caterpillars this spring.
Even in areas that were sprayed,
landowners may want to consider having
a certified arborist check trees to see if a
second spray of individual trees may be
necessary to get the necessary control.
People can search for a certified arborist
for hire through the Wisconsin Arborists
Association Web site: [www.waa-isa.org]
(exit DNR).
For homeowners with gypsy moths,
putting sticky barrier bands up on trees
and collecting caterpillars under burlap
bands can help reduce the population of
the pest on yard trees. Directions for how
to use these controls are on the gypsy
moth Web site [gypsymoth.wi.gov] under
the Management Options for Yard Trees
link.
In July, if homeowners see the brown
pupae or white female moths on trees or
siding, they can be knocked down with a
broom or hose and then crushed.
“Avoid crushing the female moths
Play it Safe: Reduce Your Child’s
Chances of Pesticide Poisoning
Pesticides: What are they?
A pesticide is any bait, liquid, powder,
or spray used to kill a pest (ants, germs,
cockroaches, flies, mice, rats, or termites).
You turn your head and your toddler
is inserting a sandwich half into the
DVD player. Mostly, we’re lucky; our
momentary slipups as parents aren’t too
harmful. However, some close calls can
be scary-like catching your three-yearold holding a can of bug spray.
Most people aren’t aware that household pesticides, the products we use in
and around our homes to kill ants,
germs, cockroaches, flies, mice, rats, and
termites, can harm a child’s health if
stored or used improperly.
Each year thousands of children
under the age of six are poisoned by common household pesticide products. Many
parents still store pesticide products
within the reach of children. One of the
simplest ways of preventing pesticide
poisoning is to store household products
out of a child’s reach.
Accidents are bound to happen in life,
but we can’t depend solely on good fortune to protect our kids from harm’s way.
Play it safe. With some simple prevention steps, you can assure a safe and
healthy home for your family despite
life’s unpredictable moments.
How do children come in contact
with pesticides?
Children can come into contact with
pesticides stored or applied in their
homes, yards, day-cares, schools, parks,
or on pets.
Children often touch things (that may
contain a pesticide) and put their hands
in their mouths. they also crawl and play
on floors, grass, or in spaces that might
contain pesticides. These activities may
put them at higher risks for poisoning.
contact with pesticides may cause serious harm to a child’s health.
How do you know if your child has
been poisoned?
The signs of pesticide poisoning may
look life the flu. If your child shows any
of the following signs after coming in
contact with a pesticide, call your poison
control center right away.
• Headaches
• Dizziness
• Muscle twitching
• Weakness
• Tingling
Learn About Chemicals
Around Your House
with your hands or feet or her scent will
get on you and male gypsy moths will be
attracted to you in high numbers, “warns
Diss-Torrance. “While the males are
harmless, this can be a nuisance.”
Later this month, watch for caterpillars hanging on the trunk of trees that
have been killed by the fungal disease
Entomophaga maimaiga or the viral disease NPV.
“The wet weather we have had this
spring is favorable for Entomophaga,”
Diss-Torrance says. “We are hoping that
this introduced, specific fungus will
cause an epidemic among the gypsy
moth and cause the outbreak to collapse
like it did in 2004 in the Milwaukee
area.”
People who would like their property
or neighborhood included in the 2009
Suppression Program spraying should
contact county and local officials in July
to report gypsy moth infestation and
request that the county participate in
the Suppression Program.
Contact information is also available
on the [gypsymoth.wi.gov] Web site (exit
DNR) by clicking on a blue or red county
on the map. Choose “contacts” from the
left side menu on the next page that
appears. Call the community contact for
residential areas or the county contact
for rural woodlots. If there is no community contact listed, call the county and
your local public works department,
community forester,, or town clerk.
For properties with too many trees to
make a ground-based spray affordable or
physical control feasible, private aerial
sprays can be arranged for 10 or more
acres. A guide for doing this is also available online.
Gypsy moths seldom kill trees on
their own. Mature, healthy trees can
generally withstand two to three consecutive years of heavy defoliation. Instead,
trees can be killed by the combination of
stresses caused by defoliation, drought,
soil compaction, other insects, and much
more. If drought conditions occur this
summer, you can help your trees stay
healthy by watering them for one to two
hours each week, during weeks with no
rain. Do not fertilize this year or next if
trees are defoliated. This can cause them
to overextend themselves by producing
too much foliage, too fast, with limited
energy reserves.
For publication requests or questions,
or to report gypsy moth infestations to
the DNR call 1-800-642-6684 and choose
menu option #2 anytime 7 a.m. to 10
p.m., seven days per week.
CONTACTS: Andrea Diss-Torrance,
Suppression Program Coordinator,
Wisconsin Department of Natural
Resources, 608-264-9247.
Ten Tips to Protect Children from
Pesticide and Lead Poisonings
These simple steps can help you save
children from environmental hazards
around the home:
1. Always store pesticides and other
household chemicals, including chlorine
bleach, out of children’s reach –
preferably in a locked cabinet.
2.
Read the Label FIRST! Pesticide
products, household cleaning projects,
and pet products can be dangerous or
ineffective if too much or too little is
used.
3.
Before applying pesticides or other
household chemicals, remove children
and their toys, as well as pets, from the
area. Keep children and pets away
until the pesticide has dried or as long as
is recommended on the label.
4.
If your use of a pesticide or other
household chemical is interrupted (perhaps by a phone call), properly reclose
the container and remove it from children’s reach. Always use household products in child-resistant packaging.
5. Never transfer pesticides to
other containers that children may
associate with food or drink (like soda
bottles), and never place rodent or insect
baits where small children can get to
them.
6.
When applying insect repellents
to children, read all directions first; do
not apply over cuts, wounds, or irritated
skin; do not apply to eyes, mouth, hands,
or directly on the face; and use just
enough to cover exposed skin or clothing,
but do not use under clothing.
7.
Many homes built before 1978 have
lead-based paint. If you plan to remodel
or renovate, get your home tested.
Don’t try to remove lead paint yourself.
8.
Ask about lead when buying or
renting a home. Sellers and landlords
must disclose known lead hazards in
houses or apartments built before 1978.
9.
Get your child rested for lead.
There are no visible symptoms of lead
poisoning, and children may suffer
behavior or learning problems as a
result of exposure to lead hazards.
10. Wash children’s hands, toys, and
bottles often. Regularly clean floors, window sills, and other surfaces to reduce
possible exposure to lead and pesticide
residues.
U.S. E.P.A. Release
Enviro-Q
Window and Glass Cleaners:
What is it?
These cleaners are used to clean windows throughout the house, glass tables,
mirrors, and screens of TVs and computers. These cleaners are usually kept in
the kitchen or bathroom.
What’s in it?
The basic ingredients of window/glass
cleaners are ammonia and isopropanol.
What health and safety precautions
do you have to think about when
using window/glass cleaners?
These products may be irritating to the
eyes, skin, nose, and
throat. If swallowed,
they may cause drowsiness, unconsciousness,
or death. If you need to
use these products, you
need to be sure to
always “Read the Label
First” to know how to
properly use these
products and for safety
information. Always
wear gloves to use
these products and use in a well ventilated area.
EPA Release
What percent of all poisonings in the U.S. involve a
child under age six?
a. 10 percent
b. 25 percent
c. 50 percent
d. 75 percent
(Answer on page 12)
6
WISCONSERVATION
July 2008
7
WISCONSERVATION
July 2008
Executive Director Activity
Final 2007-2009 Legislative Report
June 2008
(Final Deposition of Bill in Bold)
Assembly Bills
AB 40—Prohibits the disposal of dredged materials containing PCBs in landfills
Died in Assembly Natural Resources Committee
Oppose—This bill will result in greater delays in cleaning up the PCBs in the Fox River
AB 42—Establishes Natural Resources Board approval of the DNR Secretary
Counterpart Bill Killed by Assembly Leadership
Support—This bill reduces political interference in natural resource management
AB 198—Allowing Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission Wardens to Enforce State
Conservation Laws
Passed into Law—Act 27
Support—This bill is critically important to protect fish and wildlife and their habitat
AB 228—Authorizes the Transfer of Approvals to Minors
Support—Increase youth hunting opportunities
AB 284—Naming the State Trail System After Aldo Leopold
Support—An appropriate recognition for Aldo Leopold
AB 45—Requires Personal Flotation Devices for youth 12 and under
Died in Assembly Tourism Committee
Support—Will increase on-water safety for young anglers and boaters
AB 296—Authorizing Former Resident Military to have Resident Licenses
AB 62—Increasing Number of Electrical Sites at State Parks
Died in State Senate
Support—Provides additional recreational opportunities to our members
AB 297—Regulation of Piers
Support—The WWF supported this compromise last session
AB 86—Creates Regulation of Ship Ballast Water Discharges Into the Great Lakes
WWF successfully petitioned DNR f or rules on subject
Support—This bill is critical to protect Great Lakes fisheries
AB 304—Providing information on Stewardship Lands
Passed into Law in State Budget
Support—Will provide better information on public land access
AB 91—Restricts Voting on Conservation Congress Advisory Questions and Delegates to
Wisconsin Residents
Support—Assures that Congress proposals represent views of Wisconsin citizens
AB 93—Requires DNR to get Approval of the Joint Finance Committee Prior to Purchase of
Development Rights Under the Stewardship Fund
Died in Assembly Property Rights Committee
Oppose—As written, this bill will delay land transactions that are important to hunters,
anglers and trappers
AB 96—Regulating Possession and Transportation of Invasive Fish Species
Passed in 2008 Budget Repair Bill – Act 226
Support—This bill is important to protecting Wisconsin’s fisheries
AB 108—Free Access to State Parks and Trails for Certain Disabled Vets and POWs
Died in Joint Finance Committee
Support—Important to recognize those who have sacrificed for our rights
AB 130—Authorizing All Members of the Wisconsin National Guard to Obtain Resident Hunting
and Fishing Licenses
Passed as Act 23
Support—Only reasonable for those serving our nation
AB 334—Designating Feral Pigs as harmful wild animals
Support—This bill will help reduce habitat loss from feral pigs
AB 346—Repealing Pre-application Barriers for Construction of Nuclear Power Plants
Died in Senate Utilities Committee
Support—Need to keep open all options to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This position
does not reflect whether WWF supports any particular use of nuclear power.
AB 359—Adjusting Preference System for Bear, Bobcat, Otter and Fisher Preference Points
Support—Provides additional flexibility for preference point applicants
AB 371—Tax Credits for Electric Motor and Ethanol Vehicles
Support—An aid to reducing greenhouse gas emissions
AB 378—Tax Credits for Alternative Energy and Energy Efficient Devices
Died in Assembly Biofuels Committee
Support—An aid to reduce greenhouse gases
AB 396—Restrictions on the use of phosphorus in lawn fertilizer
Died in Assembly
Support—This bill will reduce water pollution and damage to fish and wildlife habitat
AB 131—Easing Requirements for Hunting License Requirements for Armed Forces Members
Passed as Act 24
AB 401—Eliminating 3-day Waiting Period to Bowhunt After License Purchase
Died in Assembly
Support—Will allow greater opportunity to hunt
AB 157—Regulation of Greenhouse Gases
AB 454—Allowing Federal Approvals to Be Purchased on State Automated License System
Support—Will make obtaining certain hunting approvals easier
AB 163—Exempting the Construction of a Road in a Wetland in the City of Tomahawk
Died in Senate Environment and Natural Resources Committee
Oppose—Will adversely affect wetlands; Alternatives need to be explored
AB 479—Admissibility into Evidence of the Existence of an Endangered Species
Oppose—Endangered resources should be protected
AB 177—Creates Tax Exemption for Conservation Easements Donated to State and Counties
Died in Assembly Forestry Committee
Support, this increases the opportunity to protect fish and wildlife habitat
AB 504—Natural Resource Board Appointment of DNR Secretary
Killed by Assembly Leadership
Support—This bill reduces political interference in natural resource management
AB 187—Creating a One-day Fishing License
Died in Senate
Oppose, if it results in a decrease to the Fish and Wildlife account
AB 543—County determination of Ordinary Highwater Marks
Oppose—This bill is unconstitutional and may lead to loss of fish and wildlife habitat
AB 567—Sale and care of Dogs
Died in Assembly Consumer Protection and Personal Privacy Committee
Oppose unless modified to not adversely affect sporting dog owners
AB 581—Use of Emergency Powers to Restrict Use of Firearms
Oppose—Assures private ownership of firearms during Emergency Declarations
AB 588—Increasing Maximum Penalties for Littering
Support—Will provide disincentive for large scale littering which may degrade fish and
wildlife habitat
AB 602—Authorizes Crossbows for Nonresidents over 65
Assigned to WWF Wildlife Committee
AJR 34—Constitutional Amendment Preventing Diversion of Hunting and Fishing Stamp Funds
Died in Senate Ethics and Go vernment Operations Committee
Support—Protecting Waterfowl, Inland Trout, Pheasant, Turkey and Great Lakes Salmon
and Trout funds from being misappropriated
AB 672—Hunting Mentor Program
Support—Will assist in getting more youth involved in hunting and shooting sports
AB 703—Membership of the Natural Resources Board
Support—Will assure qualified natural resource decision-makers
AB 715—Mercury in schools
Died in Assembly Committee on Natural Resources
Support—Will reduce mercury emissions into the air, water and fish
AB 716—Prohibiting Felons from Purchasing Hunting Licenses
AB 722—Prohibiting Felons from Purchasing and Using Hunting License
AB 725—Tax Exemptions for Energy Efficient Products Sold on Earth Day
Died in Joint Tax Ex emption Committee
Support—Will reduce greenhouse gas emissions
AB 753—Increases Penalties for Baiting and Feeding of Deer
Support—Will reduce illegal baiting in Wisconsin
AB 821—Prohibition of Transportation of Invasive Species
Was adopted in 2008 Budget Repair Bill—Act 226
Support—Will reduce invasive species spreading and protecting fish and wildlife habitat
AB 925—Great Lake Compact and Implementation Bill
Counterpart Bill was enacted into Law—Act 227
Support—Protects Great Lakes water and fish and wildlife habitat
Senate Bills
SB 15—Establishes Natural Resources Board approval of the DNR Secretary
Counterpart bill killed by Assembly Leadership
Support—Reduces political interference in natural resource management
SB 49—Free Access to State Parks and Trails for Certain Disabled Vets and POWS
Support—Important to recognize those who have sacrificed for our rights
SB 81—Regulation of Greenhouse Gases
SB 97—Allowing Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission Wardens To Enforce State
Fish and Game Laws
Support—This bill is important to assure greater protection of fish and wildlife and wildlife
habitat
SB 104—Requiring Background Checks on Sale of Firearms Between Private Citizens in
Milwaukee County (Expanded to Whole State)
Died in Senate Labor, Elections and Urban Aff airs Committee
Oppose—An unreasonable restriction on Second Amendment Rights
SB 119—Creates Regulation of Ship Ballast Water Discharges into the Great Lakes
Died in Senate Rules Committee But WWF Successful in Petitioning DNR f or Rules
Support—Reduce number of aquatic invasive species and protects fish and wildlife habitat
SB 127—Places Additional Requirements on DNR to Remove Abandoned Dams
Oppose—Reduces opportunities to protect fish habitat in streams
SB 161—Naming the State Trail System after Aldo Leopold
Support—An appropriate way to recognize this great conservation leader
SB 166—Easing Hunting License Requirements for Armed Forces Members
SB 169—Relating to Pier Regulations
Support—The WWF supported this compromise bill last session
SB 197—Restrictions on the use of phosphorus in lawn fertilizer
Died in Assembly
Support—This bill will reduce water pollution and damage to fish habitat
SB 198—Allows Immediate Use of Archery Deer License
Support—Will provide greater opportunity to hunt
SB 230—Authorizing Group Bowhunting
Oppose—Contrary to historical well-accepted archery practices
Continued on page 10
SB 16—Requires Personal Flotation Devices for youth 12 and under
Died in Assembly Tourism Committee
Support—Will increase on-water safety for young anglers and boaters
2008 Annual Meeting Resolutions
I. Restoration of Pittman Robertson
Funds f or Shooting Ranges
Whereas, Wisconsin Sportsmen and women fought for many years to have a portion of Pittman-Robertson Funds dedicated to improve and construct necessary structures for youth shooting and Hunter Education; and
Whereas, This regulation and language is still in the Department of Natural
Resources Regulations; and
Whereas, There is a tremendous need for shooting ranges, equipment, and structures for promoting the shooting sports; and
Whereas, Through the years, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has
changed the intent and use of these funds, even to the point of eliminating these
funds, therefore be it
Resolved, That the Wisconsin Wildlife Federation at their Annual meeting at
Stevens Point on April 11th to 13th 2008 request that the Secretary of the Wisconsin
Department of Natural Resources restore these funds and the conditions for qualifications that these funds were intended.
Submitted March 10th, 2008
Allan Pribnow
Co-Chair, State Affairs
II. Whitetail Deer Harvest Data
III. Shooting Range Protection Bill
IV. Resolution
The Whitetail deer herd of Wisconsin is managed by the Wisconsin Department of
Natural Resources and requires the agency to control the populations to the best of its
ability, using as much scientific and harvest data as possible; and
Whereas, Shooting ranges and their use are needed for Hunter Education, recreation, and hunter training; and
Whereas Wisconsin’s bowhunting season has been a continuing success, both in
terms of game management and hunter recreation hours. It was established and
fought for by individuals dedicated to hunting with a bow and arrow. Any changes to
the fundamental dynamics of this season, that means so much to so many Wisconsin
sportsmen and sportswomen, should be considered very carefully.
Whereas: the mature antlered whitetail deer is highly pursued across the state,
and the population of matured antlered deer is critical to retaining and recruiting
hunters as well as to the tourism of the state of Wisconsin; and
Whereas: the current whitetail deer registration form no longer records the harvest
of buck fawns separately from other antlerless deer; rendering the registration form
inadequate to accurately record the buck fawn harvest data which is needed to manage the future population of adult antlered whitetail deer; and
Whereas: the increasingly additional pressure to harvest antlerless deer, by the
Department of Natural Resources, could lead to an over harvest of premature buck
fawns. In result, reducing the potential for a sustainable population of mature
antlered whitetail and continue to contribute to the demise of the Majestic Whitetail
buck.
Therefore be it resolved: the Wisconsin Wildlife Federation, at its annual meeting
held this 12th day of April 2008 in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, mandates that the
Department of Natural Resources once again collect buck fawn harvest data on the
whitetail deer registration form.
Be it further resolved: that the Department of Natural Resources also include, in
the Deer Hunting Regulations, a “How to Identify a Buck Fawn” section, further
assisting hunters wishing to provide protection of the future mature antlered whitetail deer.
Editor Comment
Resolutions published herein were submitted, reviewed, discussed, edited and voted upon by the delegates in attendance
at the 2008 W.W.F. Annual Meeting April 2008 – in accordance
with Wisconsin Wildlife Federation By-Laws.
~Editor D. A. Gries
Submitted by:
Ralph R. Fritsch
Whereas, Shooting ranges need protection from frivolous and unnecessary lawsuits; and
Whereas, Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 87A has a very well written Range
Protection Act that Wisconsin could use as an outline; and
Whereas, Legislation protecting ranges is needed now; therefore be it
Resolved, The Wisconsin Wildlife Federation at their annual meeting on April 1113, begin drafting language to create a Shooting Protection Act; and be it further
Resolved, Input from all concerned citizens and sportsmen and women, both members and non-members of the Wisconsin Wildlife Federation is requested to help create this Act.
Submitted March 10th, 2008
Allan Pribnow
Co-Chair, State Affairs
And whereas, liberal seasons and harvest limits were granted to bowhunters due
to the difficulty in harvesting game with a bow and arrow. And although there has
been some criticism that archery equipment has become more sophisticated, there
have been few significant changes in the last several years, and it is still a weapon
that is hand drawn and held by the strength of the archer, is held unsupported, and is
drawn while the quarry is present.
And whereas a crossbow is not a bow; both by legal definition and performance
characteristics. Most modern crossbows are now so powerful they must be cocked with
a winch. They are braced across a high-strength stock that can be rested and aimed
like a rifle, often with a scope. And the only motion necessary while the target is present is simply squeezing ones trigger finger. They are proving to be a highly efficient
and accurate medium-range weapon – they just aren’t a bow. They eliminate many of
the challenges that are the attraction that draw sportspeople to bowhunting in the
first place.
And whereas, bowhunters in Wisconsin believe that the introduction of crossbows
for non-handicapped use (by age or infirmity) in Wisconsin’s archery season would
negatively alter the dynamics of that season as it has in other states.
Therefore be it resolved that the Wisconsin Wildlife Federation, at the request of
the Wisconsin Bowhunters Association, a Federation member, at it’s annual meeting
in April 2008, take an official position against any expanded use of crossbows in
Wisconsin archery-only hunting season. And, that a copy of this resolution be forwarded to Wisconsin’s Governor, Secretary of Natural Resources, members of the Board of
Natural Resources, and chairman of the Committee On Natural Resources of the
Wisconsin Legislature.
Michael P. Brust
Director, Wisconsin Bowhunters Association
WBH Wisconsin Wildlife Federation representative
8
WISCONSERVATION
July 2008
UWSP Wildlife Society Deer Project
Collection of Summer Deer Observations in Wisconsin 2008
Introduction:
To predict white-tailed deer abundance in Wisconsin the Wisconsin
Department of Natural Resources (WI
DNR) uses a Sex, Age, Kill (SAK) population model (WI DNR 1998) Each year
Wisconsin DNR employees collect summer deer observations. The purpose of
these observations is to obtain the ratios
of bucks: Does and Does: fawns, in the
WI deer herd. Since implementing the
Sex, Age, Kill (SAK) population model, in
the 1960’s, summer deer observations
have been collected, by WI DNR personnel, for use as inputs into the SAK model
(WI DNR 1998). This model has been
scrutinized by hunters and stakeholder
groups leading to an independent panel,
hired by the WI DNR, to investigate the
accuracy of the population model. An
audit of the SAK population model, as
applied in Wisconsin, was released in
Nov 2006 (Millspaugh & others 2006).
Recommendations were made into proving and supplementing WI Summer
Deer Observations (Millspaugh & others
2006).
Objectives:
The UWSP Wildlife Society has
worked closely with the WI DNR to create a web-based citizen-monitoring program for the collection of summer deer
observations. UWSP Wildlife Society
members and the Wisconsin Civil Air
Patrol (CAP) will begin collecting observations from July 1st–September 30th
from 10 Deer management units in
Wisconsin. Supplemented by citizen
observations these observations will
allow us to create an index independent
of the WI DNR. The index will be used to
see if by decreasing the areas that are
under-sampled
the
WI DNR can
increase the accuracy and precision of
the population estimates at the DMU
level.
Study Area:
The study area will consist of a
statewide citizen-monitoring program, a
student based collection of data from 10
deer
management
units
(DMU)
statewide, and an aerial survey conducted by the Wisconsin Civil Air Patrol
(CAP) on 10 DMU statewide. The DMU
of interest to TWS members and WI CAP
are 18,19 (NW), 37, 38 (NE, 33, 57A
(Central), 55 (Central Forest), 61 (SW),
and 64, 69 (SE).
Methods:
Through the UWSP Wildlife Society
website citizens and students can obtain
field sheets used to record the deer
observed during the summer months
(July-September). UWSP Students will
be focusing their observation efforts on
ten deer management units (DMU)
across the state. The same deer management units will be flown over by the
Wisconsin civil air patrol (CAP). this will
be done at least once every month for the
three months the study will run each
year. Citizens participating in the project
collect data from the units they frequent
(statewide) and submit those observations to the UWSP deer project via our
website.
Students will be collecting observations from 18, 19 (NW), 37, 38 (NE), 33,
57A (Central), 55 (Central Forest), 61
(SW), and 64, 69 (SE). All observation
will be conducted following protocol outlined on the field sheet and students will
be reimbursed at $.32/mile using their
own personal vehicles.
The Wisconsin Civil Air Patrol is
going to sample the same 10 DMU as
UWSP students using Air Force Search
and Rescue aircraft. Through a cooperative effort we have been given a great
discount on the cost of these projects.
The pilots of the Civil Air Patrol are
going to cover the maintenance/upkeep
of the aircraft and pilots are volunteering their time leaving the Deer Project to
cover fuel costs. Normal cost of such a
operation are $150/hr with their cooperation we’re looking at –$35/hr. Transects
will be flown during dusk periods to
increase the efficiency of fuel and time
(Jacobson 1975). Observations will be
collected using high-powered binoculars
and cameras mounted on the aircraft
themselves. Each DMU will be sampled
once/month during the study period
July-September.
Citizens will follow the same protocol
as UWSP TWS students and submit
their observations to the TWS Deer
Project via the Wildlife Society website.
Timetable:
Summer Deer Observations are collected July 1st–September 30th.
Citizens participating in the survey can
compile their data throughout the summer and submit it to the deer project at
their convenience. TWS student members will be allocated a number of miles
they can drive/month/unit. they will submit their data directly to the deer project. The Wisconsin CAP will conduct
aerial surveys of the 10 DMU once per
month during the study period (assuming full funding).
Deer Management Units
INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUMMER DEER OBSERVATIONS
1) Report only for the months of July, August, and September. Use separate forms for
each month and DMU.
2) Be sure to enter deer management unit (see map) for each observation. WDNR website contains a larger map.
3) Record only those deer observed from dawn to dusk (when headlights are not used for
driving).
4) Use one line for each observation. An observation is defined as all the deer seen at any
one time in any location; e.g.,
•If you see a doe and stop your car, and after waiting a few minutes see two fawns
apparently with the doe, the figure “1” would be placed in the Column (6), Doe + 2
fawns (line A below).
•If after driving a half-mile you see 2 bucks, this is a separate observation and the figure “2” should be placed in the Column (2) (line B).
•Fawns are to be tallied in Column (4) only when no doe can be seen at the same time,
or when well isolated from a doe (as in line C).
•Does are recorded separately in Column (3) when apparently without fawns (as in line
D).
•It may require a few minutes of observation to ascertain these classifications. If this is
not possible, use Column (1) to report all deer seen but not identified (as in line D).
Completed Forms Should be submitted online or mailed to the following address
http://www.uwsp.edu/stuorg/wildlife/projects/deer.htm
Example Summer Deer Observation Form
Observer: Adam Murkowski
(1)
Date
Deer Mgt.
Unit
Unknown
(A) 10
51A
(B) 10
51A
(C) 15
51A
(D) 21
41
Timetable
July 1st 2008 – September 30th 2008
ACTIVITY
PLANNED DATES
• Students Collect Summer Deer Observations
1. (TWS members focus on specified DMU)
July 2008
• Citizens Collect Summer Deer Observations
1. (State-wide)
July 2008
• Wisconsin Civil Air Patrol Flies Transects
1. Focus on specified DMU
July 2008
August 2008
1. (State-wide)
August 2008
August 2008
September 2008
1. (State-wide)
September 2008
September 2008
Month & Year: July 2008
(2)
Bucks
(3)
(4)
(5)
Does w/o Fawns w/o Doe + 1
Fawns
Does
2 Fawns
(6)
Doe +
2 Fawns
(7)
Doe + 3
Fawns
Remarks
1
2
1
2
1
1
Lone Fawn in
ﬁeld observed
for 15 min.
1
2
Summer Deer Observation Reporting Form
Observer:
Date
Deer
Mgt.
Unit
Month & Year:
(7)
(4)
(5)
(6)
(3)
Doe + Doe + 3
Does w/o Fawns w/o Doe + 1
2 Fawns 2 Fawns Fawns
Unknown Bucks
Fawns
Does
(1)
Time
(2)
Remarks
Comments
Totals
When submitting your observations using the submit application all data you gathered
above can be considered as one observation. Submit observations for each month individually. Do not submit observations from multiple months at once.
9
WISCONSERVATION
July 2008
New Laws Take Effect Regarding Private Well Abandonment
W
isconsin has nearly 1 million
households using private
wells, and another 17,000
wells are drilled every year. The water
that private well owners drink will be
safer and groundwater will be better
protected under new provisions effective
this month for privately owned wells.
It is estimated that there are more
than 250,000 unused wells in Wisconsin,
often relics from farms no longer in operation, according to Mark Putra, who leads
the Department of Natural Resources private water section. These unused old
wells are a significant threat to groundwater quality. If not properly filled with
impermeable material, abandoned wells
can directly channel contaminated surface or soil water into groundwater. Water
that gets into abandoned wells bypasses
the soil and rock layers that otherwise
would help filter out impurities. That contamination then can make its way into
people’s drinking water.
Starting June 1, only licensed well
drillers or pump installers or their employees may fill and seal unused wells. This
provision aims to address the hundreds of
thousands of abandoned private wells that
now pose a threat to groundwater, which
supplies 70 percent of Wisconsin’s residents with drinking water.
A second provision effective June 1
requires that if a drinking water well
Spring Turkey Hunters Register
Another Record Turkey Harvest
Fall season permit applications due August 1
P
reliminary figures show that
hunters set yet another spring
turkey harvest record, registering 52,814 turkeys during Wisconsin’s
2008 spring wild turkey season. This is a
3 percent increase from the 2007 spring
harvest of 51,306 birds. The statewide
hunter success rate for all hunting periods was 25 percent, the same as in 2007.
“This spring’s season was great,” says
Hull. “Despite the tremendous snowfall
events experienced by the southern half
of the state and concerns about increased
mortality, Wisconsin’s turkey population
has certainly proved that it is hardy
enough to handle even the toughest of
conditions.”
A total of 208,972 permits were issued
for the spring hunt according to licensing
officials. This was an increase of more
than 3,600 permits sold compared to
2007. Over the counter sales also
increased, accounting for more than a
quarter of the permits issued.
Hunter success rates continued to be
quite good. As in past years, success rates
generally were highest during the early
and middle hunting periods.
“Despite unfavorable weather in parts
of the state during the early part of the
turkey season, hunters recorded a 33 percent success rate during the first period,”
Hull says. “Success then dropped to 28
and 25 percent for the second and third
periods, which is expected but is still
telling of decent hunting conditions.”
The preliminary counts showed that
adult toms comprised 80 percent of the
total harvest, which is slightly higher
than the long term average of 72 percent.
Zones 22 and 23 yet again appear to
have produced the highest overall turkey
harvests at 5,925 and 2,473 respectively.
The best hunter success rate appears to
be in unit 34 with a preliminary success
rate of 37 percent, unit 35 at 33 percent
success, followed by several units (33, 30
and 26) at 32 percent success.
The fall 2008 wild turkey season will
run from Sept. 13 through Nov. 20. The
deadline for applying for a fall permit
through the lottery process is August 1.
Regulations for the 2008 fall turkey season are available online from the DNR
Wild Turkey Web page and are available
in hard copy at license vendors and DNR
Service Centers.
Applications cost $3 and can be purchased: over the Internet through the
Online Licensing Center; at DNR service
centers during their regular business
hours (check service center link for hours
of operation, which vary by service center; service centers are closed Saturdays);
at automated license issuance system
sales locations; or by calling toll-free 1877-WI LICENSE (1-877-945-4236).
REMINDER: New Turkey Zones for
Fall 2008
Turkey hunters are reminded that
beginning with the fall 2008 season, the
number of turkey hunting zones will be
reduced to seven large zones instead of
the more than 40 small zones previously
in place.
Each of the new zones combine a number of the current smaller zones and will
allow hunters more flexibility to move
about in search of game within a larger
zone. The new zones were established
based on habitat characteristics, harvest
success rates and hunter interference
rates.
“The concept of a smaller number of
larger zones has worked well in other
states similar to Wisconsin,” said Hull.
“Missouri, Illinois, Ohio and Iowa all
manage turkeys and turkey hunting
with fewer zones. I think once hunters
get used to the new structure, they’ll
really like the ability to move around
more within their chosen zone. In addition to a larger potential hunting area,
there will be fewer zone boundaries to
deal with.”
Fish Stocking Permits Now Available Online
F
ishing clubs, lake associations
and private pond owners who
want to stock fish can now apply
online for the permit they’ll need before
transferring fish into any water in
Wisconsin.
Filling out an online application may
allow people to get a permit decision
more quickly than if they fill out and
mail in a paper form, says Paul
Cunningham, the Department of
Natural Resources fish biologist who
coordinates fish stocking permits.
“We’ll continue to accept and process
paper applications, but the online application may allow for quicker review and
processing times,” he says.
The online application and a blank,
printable application form can be found
on DNR’s fisheries pages along with
other information about private stocking
efforts, including a listing of fish farms
where fish may be purchased for stocking.
Hundreds of people apply for fish
stocking permits every year. For
instance, between June and December
2007, the department received more
than 330 applications for fish stocking
permits. Walleye was the most popularly
species, with nearly one-third requesting
to stock this angler favorite, followed by
yellow perch.
Applicants who choose to fill out their
application online will still need to print
out their completed form and mail it in
to the DNR, along with a copy of a fish
health certificate for each species to be
stocked from the fish farm where the
fish were purchased, according to
Joanna Griffin, DNR fisheries database
manager.
“When you contact a fish farm to
order fish, ask for a copy of the most
recent Fish Health Certificate,” Griffin
says. “You’ll need to attach a copy of the
certificate to your stocking permit application.
Since January 2002, a fish health certificate from the Department of
Agriculture, Trade and Consumer
Protection has been required for all fish
stocked in state waterbodies, including
private ponds, to avoid spreading fish
diseases to new waters.
inspection is performed for a real estate
transfer, it must be done by a licensed
well driller or pump installer. These professionals must also search for other
unsealed wells that might be on the
property that haven’t been properly
filled and sealed. This should help eliminate improperly abandoned wells and
protect prospective home buyers.
“Properly filling and sealing unused
wells and having an expert with the
right tools and training to inspect wells
are important steps toward providing
safe drinking water,” Putra says. “These
new requirements will help protect the
health of private well owners’ families
and their neighbors and keep
Wisconsin’s groundwater clean.”
These requirements complement
other provisions that kicked in last year
to help expand eligibility for moderate
income private well owners to get financial help in properly filling and sealing
unused wells.
Filling and sealing of unused
water wells
State well codes have required property owners to fill and seal unused wells
since 1936; starting June 1, this work
must be performed only by licensed well
drillers or pump installers or an employee of a registered well drilling or pump
installing business.
Under the new requirement, all
wells, including driven points, must also
be filled and sealed by licensed well
drillers and pump installers. The
drillers and installers must submit a
form to DNR that describes the work
they completed.
“Getting your unused well filled and
sealed now by a licensed professional
will keep your family safe and it will
avoid having to do it later if you decide to
sell your property,” Putra says.
Well inspection at the time of
property transfer
For many years lending institutions
and property buyers have asked for an
inspection of wells and water systems
when purchasing a home with a private
well. There have been no rules regarding
who could do the inspections or how to
conduct an inspection, Putra says.
“In some areas of the state, inspections have been thorough; people were
reasonably assured they had a safe
water supply. In other places, the inspection reports simply stated whether the
water system was in working order,”
Putra says.
The DNR is now developing rules
about what must be included in an
inspection. Until those rules are done,
the DNR recommends that the inspection include a water sample test for bacteria and nitrate.
More information about property
transfer inspections is available on the
DNR Web site.
More information on the Well
Abandonment Grants and applications
for the grants are available on the DNR
Web site.
A publication called “Answers to Your
Questions on Well Abandonment”
[http://dnr.wi.gov/org/water/dwg/Forms/
wellabandonment.pdf], and more information about keeping private wells safe
is also available.
Wisconsin Lake Sturgeon Star in IMAX Film
at Milwaukee Public Museum
M
ADISON — Wisconsin’s lake
sturgeon and the people dedicated to sustaining this
gigantic, prehistoric fish star in a $6 million IMAX film opened June 13 at the
Milwaukee Public Museum.
“Wisconsin is essentially the star of
the film,” says David Lickley, director
and producer of “Mysteries of the Great
Lakes,” a production of Science North
science center in Sudbury, Ontario. “We
jokingly said at one point we could have
called it “Mysteries of Wisconsin.”
There’s a huge amount of Wisconsin
content, which Lickley attributed to the
story they were able to develop around
the lake sturgeon and around Ron
Bruch, a Department of Natural
Resources fisheries supervisor who has
become internationally known for leading the Lake Winnebago sturgeon management program.
“Ron Bruch is one of those characters
you run across rarely on our film format,” Lickley says. “I worked with Jane
Goodall on a film a few years back and
she was the epitome of a scientific character to put in a film because she’s so
articulate, compassionate, just the perfect sort of character. And when we found
Ron, he was the fish equivalent of Jane
Goodall.”
Downloadable files featuring a longer
interview with Lickley and Bruch are
available online on a special “Mysteries
of the Great Lakes” Web page that also
features the movie’s trailer, photographs
taken during filming, and other information about the IMAX film and
Wisconsin’s lake sturgeon management
efforts.
Lake sturgeon are one of the largest
freshwater fish in the world, able to grow
up to 300 pounds and live 150 years or
more. While other sturgeon populations
around the globe dwindle, Wisconsin’s
century-old sturgeon management program and citizen commitment have
enabled the Lake Winnebago System to
sustain the world’s largest lake sturgeon
population and to continue to offer a
unique sturgeon spearing opportunity.
The population has provided eggs, and
DNR staff have provided experience and
knowledge in dealing with this large
fish, for other states and nations trying
to restore their own lake sturgeon populations.
“Mysteries of the Great Lakes” tells
this story, and lets audiences “dive”
underwater with a 200-pound sturgeon
making her spawning run up the Wolf
River as crowds cheer her on and protect
her from poachers. It takes audiences to
the stream-side rearing pens the DNR is
operating with help from volunteers to
raise sturgeon for release in Lake
Michigan tributary streams.
The film tells the story of the recovery
of the bald eagle and concerns over mercury contamination of chicks that eat sea
lampreys. Filming for those sequences
was set on the Bad River Indian
Reservation and featured Tribal biologists.
“Mysteries of the Great Lakes” takes
the audience on trip through spectacular
scenery, exploring along the way the
unusual biological adaptations of the
woodland caribou on Slate Islands, the
Presque Island wildlife preserve, and the
shipwrecks that litter the Great Lakes.
“They did a very good job of telling the
story,” says Bruch, who participated in
the film’s premiere in Sudbury Ontario
in early May. “It was a very positive
experience.”
He has high hopes that the film and
an accompanying curriculum will raise
awareness about Wisconsin’s sturgeon,
the region’s spectacular natural
resources, and the challenges they face.
“Wherever this film shows, people
will realize what kind of sturgeon population Wisconsin has and recognize what
Wisconsin has done to have the populations we have. Knowing what impact the
film should have on helping people
understand the issues the Great Lakes
face and how we can perhaps over time
really have meaningful solutions to
these problems – to be a part of that is
really rewarding.”
Many of the volunteers who have
been so critical to the strength of
Wisconsin’s Lake Winnebago lake sturgeon population and efforts to restore
the species to Lake Michigan were treated to a sneak peak of the film on June
11. The DNR, the University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee Great Lakes
WATER Institute, the University of
Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute, and the
Milwaukee Public Museum are sponsoring the event.
INFORMATION: Ron Bruch, DNR –
(920) 424-3059 or David Lickley, Science
North - (705) 523-4629 ext. 254.
10
WISCONSERVATION
July 2008
Eagle Found Dead Near Sayner, Wis. Banded as Eaglet in 1977!
S
AYNER, Wis. – The body of what
is likely the oldest documented
American bald eagle in the
upper Midwest was recently found near
its nest on an island of a Vilas County
lake.
The carcass of the 31-year-old adult
female eagle was recovered May 16 on
Razorback Lake just north of the village
of Sayner. The eagle had a leg band,
which Ron Eckstein, a wildlife biologist
with the Wisconsin Department of
Natural Resources was able to trace
back to 1977 through the federal Bird
Banding Laboratory at the USGS
Patuxent Wildlife Research Center.
“It is very rare to encounter an eagle
that is documented to be this old,”
Eckstein said. “Eagles can live long lives
and banding studies in Wisconsin and
Michigan have documented a very small
number of eagles living 25 to 30 years.”
While the cause of death has not been
determined, Eckstein said there were no
signs of a struggle or any injury marks
on the bird.
The eagle was banded on June 25,
1977 by Sergej Postupalsky, who has
coordinated extensive eagle banding
efforts in Michigan and Wisconsin for
many years. It was one of three eaglets
in a nest located a quarter mile north of
the Wisconsin-Michigan border in the
Ottawa National Forest’s Sylvania
Wilderness Area. That nest still remains
active in a large white pine in the wilderness area.
A DNR fisheries crew conducting an
inventory of Razorback Lake in May
reported seeing an eagle carcass on the
shore of the island. Eckstein recovered
the eagle carcass so it could be sent to
the DNR wildlife health team at
Madison for a necropsy to try to determine the cause of death. After the
necropsy, the carcass will be sent to the
Ash Tree Dropping Leaves This Spring –
But – No Need to Be Alarmed
M
ADISON – People throughout
central and southern part of
Wisconsin have been reporting that ash trees have been dropping
their leaves since shortly after the trees
leafed out, but state forestry health officials say the leaf drop is not likely to
cause any long term health problems for
trees and affected trees should recover.
“Ash leaf drop was first noticed in
many areas of Wisconsin following the
Memorial Day weekend,” says Kyoko
Scanlon, a forest pathologist with the
state Department of Natural Resources.
“Due to loss of leaves, affected trees have
a thinner crown compared to nearby
broadleaf trees of different species, as if
they never quite leafed out.”
Scanlon says several events this
spring have caused ash to drop some of
their leaves and appear thin and sparse.
The cool spring temperatures caused ash
to leaf out a bit later than usual. Several
mid-May freezes as well as patchy frost
around the state damaged newly
expanding leaves or caused tender
leaves to die. In addition, anthracnose, a
fungal leaf disease, was able to infect
some leaves this spring and the trees are
purging those damaged leaves.
“When you look at ash leaves that
prematurely fell to the ground, they
have black blotches on green leaves and
many of them are curled up or distorted,” says Scanlon.
The leaf disease, anthracnose, is commonly seen when the spring weather is
cool and wet. Leaf damage tends to be
more severe on the lower crown of a tree
if anthracnose is the culprit whereas
frost damage will be more severe in the
upper portions of the tree and the outer
edges.
Early leaf drop of ash was also severe
and widespread in 2004 when a cool wet
spring allowed anthracnose to thrive,
according to Linda Williams, a DNR
Forest Health Specialist. During that
year some ash trees were almost completely leafless in early June, and many
homeowners were concerned that their
trees would die.
“Those trees started to produce additional leaves, and the affected trees
looked much better the rest of the season. The trees didn’t see any long-term
ill effect,” she says. “We expect that the
current ash leaf drop problem won’t
cause any long term health problems
and affected trees should recover and
have fuller crowns by producing a second
set of leaves.”
Once leaves mature, temperatures
increase, and spring shower season ends,
the problem usually subsides. No control
is necessary for yard trees although it is
a good idea to maintain the overall
health of the trees by watering during
dry periods, properly mulching, and minimizing injuries to the tree.
Information, Resources and Advice on
Flooding, Debris Cleanup Now Available
M
ADISON — Homeowners and
businesses facing the difficult
task of cleaning up after
floodwaters recede can find updated
information on dealing with flood debris
cleanup on the Department of Natural
Resources Web site.
As floodwaters begin to recede, the
DNR is urging residents and volunteers
to use caution as they return to homes
and begin the cleanup process.
“Our primary goal is to help people
stay safe, both during and after these
devastating storms and floods. In addition to our dam inspectors and engineers
who are working hard to limit further
damage, our waste management specialists and other staff are working to aid
recovery efforts,” notes DNR Secretary
Matt Frank.
Residents in flooded areas who rely
on private wells for drinking water
should suspect that their wells may have
been contaminated. If there is any
change in taste, color or sediment in
water, residents should immediately
stop drinking it and follow instructions
on the DNR Web site for testing the well.
Residents and volunteers beginning
to clean up flooded businesses, homes,
basements and garages can find useful
guidance on a new Coping with Flood
Cleanup Web page from the DNR Waste
and Materials Management program for
advice on how to safely sort through and
dispose of debris and waste. The page is
an addition other Coping with Flooding
information available on the DNR Web
site.
“As people start the tough job of
cleaning up, we hope they protect their
own safety and protect the environment,
which was also damaged in these tragic
floods,” says Suzanne Bangert director of
the DNR Bureau of Waste and Materials
Management.
“If your home or business has been
affected by flooding, you may be overwhelmed and just want to remove everything and take it to a landfill. This is
certainly understandable, given the circumstances, but we urge people to separate out hazardous and recyclable
materials wherever possible.”
The bottom line, Bangert said, is to
not burn or bury debris, recycle where
practical, separate hazardous materials
and landfill the rest. Above all, be safe.
“Our staff are already working with
waste haulers and landfill operators to
make sure disposal services will be
available locally,” she said. “We hope people will not burn flood debris because
burning would just add to the damage to
people’s health and our environment.”
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service so feathers
can be distributed to Native Americans.
The bird’s mate or any young it may
have been nesting on could not be found.
Eagles usually mate for life and should
one die the remaining eagle leaves and
searches for another partner. Each
spring eagle nesting pairs can produce
from one to three young.
Wisconsin currently has about 1,200
breeding pairs of eagles. This is up drastically from the 82 pair first counted in a
1970 survey. While it has been taken off
the Endangered and Threatened species
list, the bald eagle remains protected by
state law as a species of special concern,
and by the federal Bald and Golden
Eagle Protection Act. DNR biologists
continue to monitor eagle nests and peo-
ple who observe new eagle nests should
report the location to a local DNR
wildlife biologist.
Ruffed Grouse Populations
Continue Slow Rise
E
ach year since 1964, state biologists, foresters, wardens, federal foresters and members of the
Ruffed Grouse Society have driven survey routes stopping to listen at predetermined locations for the unmistakable
sound of drumming ruffed grouse. These
drumming counts and observational
data on breeding success are used to
estimate grouse population changes and
season outlooks.
“Statewide the ruffed grouse population increased about 7 percent between
2007 and 2008,” said Scott Hull, upland
game biologist with the Department of
Natural Resources.
“The northern and southeast regions
showed the greatest increase in drumming activity over last year, with 12 percent and 33 percent increases,
respectively,” says Hull. “The central
region showed a slight decrease of 3 percent and the southwest region showed a
decline of 20 percent fewer drums than
in 2007.”
Ruffed grouse drumming surveys are
divided into four regions around the
state. A map of the regions can be viewed
on the ruffed grouse page of the DNR
Web site.
Biologists note that while the 7 percent statewide increase over last year
supports the idea that the population is
growing, the change is statistically not
significant and may be due to random
chance.
“These are great survey results and
I’m very optimistic that we’ll have a
great grouse season in 2008,” said Hull.
More birds generally lead to more
hunting days in the field and higher success rates, says wildlife managers.
During the 2007-08 grouse season, about
101,000 hunters reported spending
826,000 days in the field hunting grouse.
“Hunters reported harvesting roughly
482,000 grouse in 2007,” said Hull. “At
the time of the last population peak,
back in 1999, they reported taking about
768,000.”
“For reasons not well understood,
grouse populations fluctuate on a roughly 8- to 10- year cycle. Wisconsin’s population has been on the upswing for about
the past three or four seasons, and that
is welcome news for grouse hunters and
folks who enjoy hearing the drumming
in the woods.”
Ruffed grouse are one of Wisconsin’s
most popular upland game birds. The
characteristic ‘drumming’ noise is readily recognized and is produced by males
during the spring breeding season. The
male grouse will stand on drumming
logs and rapidly beat their wings with
the intention of attracting a female
grouse.
Dates for the 2008 Ruffed Grouse
hunting seasons are: Zone A – Sept. 13 –
Jan. 31, 2009 and Zone B – Oct. 18 – Dec.
8. Additional information is on the ruffed
grouse page of the DNR Web site
[dnr.wi.gov].
Info: Scott Hull – (608) 267-7861.
Final Legislative Repor t…
Continued from page 6
SB 235—Bill Relating to Drainage Ditch Regulation
Referred to WWF Fisheries Committee
SB 308—Regulating Sale and Care of Dogs
Oppose—Needs to be modified so as to not adversely affect hunting dog owners
SB 346—Regulating Products Containing Mercury
Support—Will reduce mercury escaping into Wisconsin waters, fish, anglers and their families
SJR 50—Recognition of Jeff Nania, Wisconsin Waterfowl Association
Died in Senate Organization Committee
Support—Recognizes Jeff Nania’s excellent conservation work
SB 357—Minimum Harvest Levels for Great Lakes Fish
Assigned to WWF Great Lakes Committee
SB 385—Operating Motorboats at Slow-No-Wake Near Shorelines
Died in Assembly Committee on Tourism
Support—Will better protect near-shore fish and wildlife habitat and fishing
SB 422—Time Limits on Confirming Natural Resource Board Members
Died in Senate Ethics Reform and Government Operations Committee
Support—Will restore better organization to natural resource management
SB 454—Transportation of Invasive Species on Highways
Passed into Law as Part of 2008 Budget Repair Bill—Act 226
Support—Is important to fight the spread of invasive species
SB 472—Youth Hunting Bill
Support—Important to recruit youth into hunting and shooting sports
SB 523—Great Lakes Compact and Implementing Legislation
Passed into Law as Act 227
Support—Very important to protect the Great Lakes and its habitat
SB 529—Youth Hunting Bill
Died in Senate
SB 1 (April 2008 Special Session)—Great Lakes Compact and Implementing Legislation
Passed into Law as Act 227
11
WISCONSERVATION
July 2008
Environmental Enforcement
Federal EPA
Four of the Nation’s Largest Home
Builders Settle Storm Water Violations
W
ashington, D.C. – June 11,
2008 – Four of the nation’s
largest home builders have
agreed to pay civil penalties totaling
$4.3 million to resolve alleged violations
of the Clean Water Act, the Justice
Department
and
Environmental
Protection Agency announced today. The
companies also have agreed to implement company-wide compliance programs that go beyond current regulatory
requirements and put controls in place
that will keep 1.2 billion pounds of sediment from polluting our nation’s waterways each year.
“EPA requires that construction sites
obtain permits and take simple, basic
steps to prevent pollutants from contaminating storm water and harming our
nation’s waterways,” said Granta Y.
Nakayama, assistant administrator for
EPA’s Office of Enforcement and
Compliance Assurance. “Today’s settlements set a new bar for the home building industry.”
“Today’s settlements mark an important step forward in protecting our
waters from harmful storm water runoff
from construction activities,” said
Assistant Attorney General Ronald J.
Tenpas. “In the future, these homebuilders will implement company-wide
compliance programs that will provide
better and more consistent protections
at their construction sites across the
country.”
The home builders are Centex
Homes, based in Dallas; KB Home, based
in Los Angeles; Pulte Homes, based in
Bloomfield Hills, Mich.; and Richmond
American Homes, based in Denver. The
four separate settlements resolve
alleged violations of storm water run-off
regulations at construction sites in 34
states and the District of Columbia.
Each company will pay the following
penalties:
Centex:
$1,485,000
KB Home:
$1,185,000
Pulte:
$877,000
Richmond:
$795,000
Pulte Homes has also agreed to complete a supplemental environmental project at a minimum cost of $608,000. The
project will reduce the amount of sediment going into a northern California
watershed and improve the habitat for
aquatic life.
Along with the federal government,
seven state co-plaintiffs have joined the
settlements. Those states are Colorado,
Maryland, Virginia, Missouri, Nevada,
Tennessee, and Utah. Each of the seven
states will receive a portion of the penalties based on the number of sites located
within that state.
Combined, the four builders accounted for more than 124,000 home closings
in 2006, and are ranked nationally
among the top ten home builders in
terms of home closings and revenues.
The government complaints allege a
common pattern of violations that was
discovered by reviewing documentation
submitted by the companies and
through federal and state site inspections. The alleged violations include not
obtaining permits until after construction had begun or failing to obtain the
required permits at all. At the sites that
did have permits, violations included
failure to prevent or minimize the discharge of pollutants, such as silt and
debris, in storm water runoff.
The settlements require the companies to develop improved pollution prevention plans for each site, increase site
inspections and promptly correct any
problems that are detected. The companies must properly train construction
managers and contractors, and are
required to have trained staff at each
construction site. They also must implement a management and internal
reporting system to improve oversight of
on-the-ground operations and submit
annual reports to EPA.
Improving compliance at construction
sites is one of EPA’s national enforcement priorities. Construction projects
have a high potential for environmental
harm because they disturb large areas of
land and significantly increase the
potential for erosion. Without onsite pollution controls, sediment-laden runoff
from construction sites can flow directly
to the nearest waterway and degrade
water quality. In addition, storm water
can pick up other pollutants, including
concrete washout, paint, used oil, pesticides, solvents and other debris. Polluted
runoff can harm or kill fish and wildlife
and can affect drinking water quality.
The settlements are the latest in a
series of enforcement actions to address
storm water violations from construction
sites around the country. A similar consent decree, reached in February with
Home Depot, required the company to
pay a fine of $1.3 million and establish a
comprehensive storm water compliance
plan to prevent future violations.
The Clean Water Act requires that
construction sites have controls in place
to prevent pollution from being discharged with storm water into nearby
waterways. These controls include simple pollution prevention techniques such
as silt fences, phased site grading, and
sediment basins to prevent common construction contaminants from entering
the nation’s waterways.
The consent decrees, lodged in the
U.S. District Court for the Eastern
District of Virginia, are subject to a 30day public comment period and approval
by the federal court. The companies are
required to pay the penalty within 30
days of the court’s approval of the settlement.
EPA Reaches Agreement With Specco
on Clean-Air Violations
C
HICAGO (June 4, 2008) - U.S.
Environmental
Protection
Agency Region 5 has reached
an agreement with Specco Industries
Inc. on alleged clean-air violations at the
company's coating manufacturing plant
at 13087 Main St., Lemont, Ill.
The agreement, which includes a
$77,000 penalty, resolves EPA allegations that Specco made and distributed
architectural coatings that contained
higher concentrations of volatile organic
compounds than federal regulations
allow. In addition, Specco failed to timely notify EPA that it produces these
products.
Volatile organic compounds con-
tribute to the formation of ground-level
ozone (smog). Smog is formed when a
mixture of pollutants react on warm,
sunny days. Smog can cause respiratory
problems, including coughing, wheezing,
shortness of breath and chest pain.
People with asthma, children and the
elderly are especially at risk, but these
health concerns are important to everyone.
Information about EPA Region 5's air
enforcement program is at www.epa.
gov/region5/air/enforce/index.html.
Potential environmental violations may
be reported at www.epa.gov/compliance/
complaints.
EPA Reaches Agreement With 3M
on Clean-Air Violations
C
Environmental
Protection
an agreement with 3M Co. on alleged
clean-air violations at the company's
Abrasive Systems Division at 10746
Innovation Road, Cottage Grove,
Minn.
$30,000 penalty, resolves EPA allegations that 3M violated monitoring and
recordkeeping requirements for systems
to control particulate matter emissions
from its calciners and dryers.
The alleged violations were discov-
ered during an EPA inspection in
October 2006. EPA said 3M has since
demonstrated compliance with these
requirements.
Inhaling high concentrations of particulates can affect children, the elderly
and people with heart and lung diseases
the most.
Information about EPA Region 5's
air enforcement program is at
http://www.epa.gov/region5/air/enforce/
index.html. Potential environmental violations may be reported at http://
www.epa.gov/compliance/complaints.
Fond du Lac County
EPA Reaches Agreement With Mercury
Marine on Clean-Air Violations
C
Environmental
Protection
an agreement with Mercury Marine
Division of Brunswick Corp. on alleged
clean-air violations at the company's secondary aluminum production plant that
makes boat motors at W6250 Pioneer
Road, Fond du Lac, Wis.
$25,000 penalty, resolves EPA allegations that Mercury Marine violated a
May 2005 consent order requiring it to
operate its equipment in compliance
with EPA regulations. EPA said the company had disclosed in a letter sent last
July that it had used non-clean charge in
its furnaces.
Secondary aluminum facilities can
emit excessive amounts of hydrocarbons,
particulates, dioxins and furans when
they use non-clean charge in their furnaces.
Hydrocarbons contribute to the for-
mation of ground-level ozone (smog).
Smog is formed when a mixture of pollutants react on warm, sunny days. Smog
can cause respiratory problems, including coughing, wheezing, shortness of
breath and chest pain. People with asthma, children and the elderly are especially at risk, but these health concerns
are important to everyone.
Inhaling high concentrations of particulates can affect children, the elderly
and people with heart and lung diseases
the most.
There is evidence that dioxins may
cause liver damage and probably cause
cancer in humans, while furans may also
cause cancer.
Information about EPA Region 5's
air enforcement program is at
http://www.epa.gov/region5/air/enforce/
index.html. Potential environmental
violations may be reported at http://
www.epa.gov/compliance/complaints.
Wisconsin Department of Justice
Darlington Dairy Farm Owner to Pay
$70,000 for Violating Pollution Laws
M
ADISON – Under the terms
of a stipulation, Linda K.
Kenkhuis, doing business as
Hen-Lin Dairy, and the estate of her
deceased husband, Henk Kenkhuis, settled a state action alleging violations of
Wisconsin's environmental laws related
to the protection of navigable waters
from the discharge of pollutants and
related violations of their Wisconsin
Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
(WPDES) permit. On May 15, 2008,
Lafayette County Circuit Court Judge
William D. Johnson accepted the stipulation and ordered that the defendants pay
$70,000 in forfeitures, court costs, and
costs of investigation.
According to the civil complaint, filed
at the request of the Department of
Natural Resources, in February 2005,
the employees of Hen-Lin Dairy, in violation of their WPDES permit, spread
manure on snow covered fields. The
manure then flowed into an unnamed
tributary to Madden Branch Stream
when the snow melted shortly after the
spreading. This discharge to the stream
and the dairy's failure to stop the run off
violated state law and their WPDES permit. The complaint also charged the
defendants with a series of failing to
submit required reports to the DNR.
In addition to paying forfeitures and
costs, the defendants also stipulated to a
list of penalties for any future violations
of their WPDES permit or related state
laws. Kenkhuis is also required to retain
a professional nutrient manager to oversee compliance with WPDES permits
and to delay herd expansion until permit
compliance can be demonstrated for one
year.
"Water quality is protected in
Wisconsin through a permitting process
that requires applicants to apply for –
and abide by – permits issued by the
Department of Natural Resources," said
Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen. "We
will continue to work with the DNR to
make sure that permit safeguards are
honored and Wisconsin's environmental
laws are followed."
Assistant Attorney General Steven
Tinker prosecuted the lawsuit for the
State.
12
WISCONSERVATION
July 2008
Take Note!
Revised Northern Walleye Limits. Page 4.
Home Chemical Safety. Page 5.
Heckrodt Wetland Reserve
Executive Director. Pages 6 & 7.
Early Childhood Program
Toddler Trails – July 10, 17, 31
10-11:15 AM Ages 18 - 36 months
2008 Deer Data Collection. Page 8.
Turtle Tales Storytime
Flood Information. Page 10.
July 15, 16
10-11:15 AM Children 3-5 years
Environmental Violations. Page 11.
Editor D. A. Gries
Tales from Under the Boardwalk
July 26
6:30-8:30 PM Entire Family
Info: 920-720-9349
Hwy. 114 • Menasha, WI
Grellton Conservation Club
Sporting Clays Shoot
July 13, 2008 10am - 3pm
Enviro-Q
Answer
The answer is c.
Lock household pesticides and chemicals in a high cabinet away from food. That’s the
simple message of “Lock It Up.” Every 15 seconds U.S. poison centers receive a call
about someone being exposed to a poison. 40 percent of those cases involve a child
under three. According to the National Safety Council, more than 50 percent of over two
million poisoning incidents each year involve children under six years of age.
Held at Lake Mills Conservation Club
W7082 County Rd. V
Lake Mills, WI
Info: Dennis Roth 920-262-0194
June 2008
Calendar
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Gander Mountain Gift Card $100
Browning BLR Lightweight 7mm-08
Savage Mod 14 American Classic .308
Browning BPS Stalker 10g
CZ 453 Varmint 17HMR Wood Blu Bolt Action
Mossberg Silver Reserve 28 ga
Benelli Super Nova Camo 12 ga
Remington 700 SPS Syn Blu .270win
ATV (winners choice up to $6K)
Thompson Center Omega 209x50 Syn Blu
Savage 17HMR Pkg Syn Blu w/scope
NEF Pardner Pump Turkey 12 ga
18th Annual Summer BOW Workshop
August 22-24, 2008
Treehaven Field Station, Tomahawk, Wisconsin. The Original BOW
with over 20 different hands-on activities including archery, canoeing, survival, shotgun skills, map and compass, fly fishing, outdoor
cooking and more.
Tom Kuhn, Gillett, WI
Korry Linton, Ft. Atkinson, WI
Mark Hardy, Eagle, WI
Jerome Behm, Waterloo, WI
Glen Van Rens, Green Bay, WI
Tina Bradle, Appleton, WI
Vilas Backhaus, Plymouth, WI
Ed VanLieshout, Appleton, WI
Keith Picard, Winneconne, WI
Lori Ripp, Lodi, WI
Doug Schilling, Watertown, WI
Kevin Grosskreutz, Arpin, WI
Mark Schroeder, Dousman, WI
Mike Bouressa, Neenah, WI
David Thompson, Otsego, MN
David Banker, Cookeville, TN
Ernest Hunt, Muskego, WI
Jerry La Guire, Mason, WI
Tim Novosalatz, DePere, WI
Steve Hammes, Onalaska, WI
Robert Collins, Prairie du Chien, WI
Peter Thomas, Milwaukee, WI
Lowell Flattum, Lanesboro, MN
David Enright, West Bend, WI
Kurt Foley, Star Prairie, WI
Claire Classon, Algoma, WI
George Hrubes Jr, Muscoda, WI
Paul Regnitz, Cedarburg, WI
Paul Cummings, Hilbert, WI
Mark Butler, Wheeler, WI
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NEW! Apostle Islands BOW Adventure
September 4-7, 2008
Join instructors Darrell Toliver, Kelly VanLaanen and Tim Pflieger
on this once in a lifetime adventure exploring the Apostle Islands
on the shores of Lake Superior in Northern Wisconsin.
Info: 715-346-4681 or [email protected]
District 4 Banquet
Thursday, Sept. 18, 2008
Shooters – Plover, Wisconsin
Info: Laura Hubner 715-569-4061
Jerry Knuth 715-344-0017

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