Entries Tagged Wisconsin

A summit this week has been scheduled in northwestern Wisconsin to discuss if the state should resume control of a growing wolf population.

More than 9 percent of white-tailed deer tested positive for chronic wasting disease last year, and game officials are worried the affliction will be difficult to stop.

Governor Scott Walker calls hunting, fishing and trapping "major pastimes" in Wisconsin, and says the bill provides hunters with "additional protections from interference."

A wandering beaver pesters drivers at a busy intersection in suburban Milwaukee.

Wisconsin's governor signs two bills loosening the state's gun regulations. The bills had bipartisan support.

The state Department of Natural Resources' board has prohibited hunters from killing antlerless deer in 13 counties this fall in an effort to regrow the herd in those areas.

Spot a dead deer on the side of the road? Gov. Scott Walker doesn't want the state Department of Natural Resources paying $700K to clean it up.

Wisconsin deer hunter Jared Thiede and his family hunted a buck they called "Picket" for three years before Jared finally killed the whopper in Vernon County.

Wisconsin plans to ask wolf hunters and trappers to let a federal wildlife specialist watch them skin their kills this fall to determine whether hunters' dogs are attacking the animals in the woods.

Some northern Wisconsin business owners are concerned about how new restrictions on deer hunting will impact their bottom line.

Fishing limits have been a source of tension since the 1980s, when non-tribal anglers staged racial protests that included rock-throwing and fake Native American heads impaled on pikes.

Anglers in northern Wisconsin can keep largemouth bass this season for the first time in 22 years.