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.