State Parks need Youth Ambassador

From the WDNR Weekly News

Wisconsin State Parks seek youth ambassador

MADISON – Social-media savvy youths between the ages of 16 and 28 who are also outdoors lovers have an opportunity to apply to serve as the State Park Youth Ambassador for the Wisconsin state parks program.

As part of a national campaign to recruit a youth ambassadors for each state, the Wisconsin state park program is seeking an ambassador to explore Wisconsin state parks, and to promote the nation’s state park systems.

“This is an opportunity for someone aged 16-28 to collaborate on a nationwide media and marketing program,” says Dan Schuller, Wisconsin state parks director. “Ambassadors will work with park staff and their own social networks to document their outdoor experiences with articles, blogs, and photo/video essays.”

This is a volunteer position and does not include compensation or transportation to parks, but the ambassador will receive guidance from individual state parks and of the state park system in documenting and sharing their experiences at parks.

Details and application forms for the Wisconsin State Parks youth ambassador are available on the DNR website. Applications are due Feb. 1, 2011.

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2011 Hunting and Trapping Seasons

Attention Hunters and Trappers - we now have the 2011 Flyer with dates and zones of this year's seasons: 2011 Wisconsin Hunting Season Dates - BuyWisconsinLand.com

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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

Happy New Year from BuyWisconsinLand.com

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

The team at BuyWisconsinLand.com: Roy, Lance, Mike, Jerry and Shelley, wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a safe and Happy Holiday Season.

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!

Battling Baby Deer

I guess these two young bucks in Crivitz weren't worried that it was Opening Day of Gun Season - they wanted to prove who's the boss!



We at BuyWisconsinLand.com wish everyone a safe and successful hunt and a very Happy Thanksgiving!

Donating Venison

Are you a lucky hunter who always fills his tags? Is there still meat left in the freezer from last year's hunt? You enjoy spending time in the woods, but don't like the taste of venison? Or maybe you just have a big heart.

Now in its 11th year, Wisconsin Venison Donation Program, along with Hunt for the Hungry and Target Hunger and more than 140 participating meat processors in 65 Wisconsin Counties, are ready to accept and distribute venison donated by hunters. Since 2000, thanks to the many generous hunters, over 3 million pounds of ground venison has been sent to various food banks to help those in need.

Here are some tips from the WI DNR if you'd like to participate:
•Field dress the deer and register it at a Wisconsin DNR registration station prior to donating the deer.
•Call First! Contact one of the participating processors before dropping the deer off to verify the processor has space to accept your deer.
•Deer legally harvested outside the CWD management zone are registered with a silver metal tag. These deer can be dropped off at a participating processor by Jan. 10, 2011.
•Deer harvested in the CWD management zone are registered with a red metal tag. Red-tagged deer can only be donated to a processor participating in the Target Hunger program. Donated red-tagged deer are tested for CWD and only deer that test negative will go out to pantries.
•Donate the entire deer to receive the processing for free. (Head and/or antlers may be removed for mounting.)
•When dropping a deer off at a processor, sign the simple log sheet indicating your desire to donate the deer and the donated deer will be processed and the venison will be distributed to charitable organizations to help feed Wisconsin’s needy.

Click here for a list of Deer Donation sites: 2010 Deer Donation Drop-Off Locations

Everyone at BuyWisconsinLand.com wishes you a safe and successful hunting season.