Spring Turkey Season is Underway

There are still tags available for this Spring Turkey season.  See this article from the Wisconsin DNR for more details.

MADISON - Though the 2014 spring turkey season is officially underway in Wisconsin, there are still tags available and a number of public hunting lands to enable you to give the season a try.

"With such a large number of public hunting lands available and almost 38,000 leftover turkey tags left for the spring season, 2014 is an excellent year for first-timers and seasoned veterans alike to head out and turkey hunt," said Scott Walter, Department of Natural Resources upland wildlife ecologist. Hunters can find more information about leftover turkey tags on the leftover permit availability page of the DNR website.

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Harsh Winter Takes a Toll on Fish and Elk

Because of the harsh winter, more fish may have died under the ice and the elk calves did not all survive the winter, according to the WI DNR. Fishing will be affected and the expected 2014 Elk Hunt is being cancelled.  See more details in this article by Lee Bergquist from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Two more outcomes from this past winter:

The Department of Natural Resources said Tuesday that an extended ice cover is likely to produce a surge in fish kills this year.

Also, winter mortality of Wisconsin's elk herd prompted the agency to delay the first regulated elk hunting season in 2014.

With more than 3 feet of ice on some northern Wisconsin lakes, and more snowfall last week, fish biologists with the DNR say they expect more fish mortality due to low oxygen levels, especially in shallower lakes.

That means when the ice finally melts, people should expect to see more dead fish littering the shore.

Last year, the DNR documented 18 fish kills caused by low levels of dissolved oxygen in lakes. This year, the agency expects more. The reason: Plants are usually the source of oxygen in lakes in the winter. With more ice and snow cover, the plants gobble up the available oxygen as they decay from the lack of sunlight.

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