2010 at the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources

The Wisconsin DNR has released this article filled with "some of the key natural resources highlights for Wisconsin in 2010" It covers many of the department's projects in this last year as well as an overview of the hunting and fishing seasons - check it out!

2010 Department of Natural Resources Highlights

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Great Year for Fishing Tournaments

Article by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources

MADISON -- Eighty-thousand anglers competed in 595 fishing tournaments in Wisconsin in 2010 and reeled in $3.9 million in prize money, according to statistics from the state's fishing tournament permit system.

Larger fishing tournaments have had to get permits since the mid-1990s, but a 2004 law directed the Department of Natural Resources to update rules as tournaments increased. DNR worked with an advisory group to revise the rules to establish limits on the size and number of tournaments on some lakes and rivers to minimize concerns such as crowding, the spread of invasive species, and indirect fish mortality.

Full Story 80,000 competed in Wisconsin fishing tournaments

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2nd Fatality Free Gun Deer Season for Wisconsin

From the Wisconsin DNR website:

MADISON – Wisconsin ended its 2010 gun-deer season free of hunter fatalities, a feat first and last seen in 1974.

“No one was shot and killed while deer hunting this year in Wisconsin,” said Tim Lawhern, Department of Natural Resources hunter education administrator and conservation warden. “This has happened once before in the state’s history of gun-deer seasons. And that was 36 years ago.” Full Story

Congratulations from the BuyWisconsinLand.com team to all the hunters for making this a safe Gun Deer Season. If you are thinking about owning your own hunting property, remeber BuyWisconsinLand.com has wooded acreage listings from 15 to 1000+ acres in over 40 Wisconsin Counties!