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The Lake Where You Live
The pier is removed, the boats stored, the leaves raked, the gutters cleaned, the snow blower gas can filled, the deck furniture stowed inside the screen porch. Now I can think about winter and days on the Birch Lake ice.
Buck from Oneida County deer farm tests positive for CWD
The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) has confirmed that a deer from an Oneida County deer farm has tested positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD).
Fish Like a GIRL
Last month I attended my first Lumberjack RC&D meeting as a voting member. The conservation committee from Vilas County nominated me to represent the county and I gladly agreed to do so. I am excited to have the chance to represent a county in the Northwoods where I have spent …
Fall is a great time to chase big muskies
While many sportsmen and women head off into the woods, their fancies turning to chasing big bucks, others slide their boats quietly into the morning mist of their favorite lake, hoping to cross paths with what is known as “the fish of 10,000 casts.”
The Lake Where You Live
We teach about Clean Boats, Clean Waters. We volunteer to inspect boats at landings. We post signage at landings. Produce and distribute brochures about stopping aquatic hitchhikers. Give talks to lake groups and school classes. And a great deal more.
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Know the hunting and trapping seasons opening in November
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) reminds hunters to prepare for the opening of several hunting and trapping seasons in November. Likewise, recreators should be aware that they may encounter more hunters on state properties.
NRB approves wolf management plan
Late last month the Natural Resources Board (NRB) gathered to decide whether to pass the state’s draft wolf management plan. The plan has been contentious, at best, since the earliest drafts were produced. Complicating matters further was the fact that the state Senate rejected four of Gov. Evers’ appointees to …
The Lake Where You Live
Fall isn’t complete until the tamaracks turn. Driving Highway 47 south toward Rhinelander I pass stands of them growing in marshy areas — tamaracks like having their feet wet. When their needles display what naturalist Aldo Leopold aptly labeled smoky gold, they add one last splash of brilliance to the …
Fish Like a GIRL
When I was thinking about what to write this week, it was not lost on me that the seasons are changing.
The Lake Where You Live
Early in our Birch Lake tenure I thought the 57 stairs to the lake would be what finally drove us back to city life and civilization. It turns out the driver might be the pier. After taking the cedar deck sections off the frame and storing them on land, I’m …
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Fish Like a GIRL
Earlier this year the Lakeland Gardeners asked me to talk with them about prairie gardening, and last week I did just that. They are a really fun group and it is always a pleasure to hang around with them and to present topics in which they are interested.
Safari Club International donates to NYDHC
The Safari Club International recently donated $1,000 to the Northwoods Youth Deer Hunt Challenge. The Safari Club International has been a leader in defending the freedom to hunt and promoting wildlife conservation worldwide for 50 years.
The Lake Where You Live
Do you go into a kind of mourning when your season on the lake ends? Near the close of the 1981 movie “On Golden Pond,” the elderly Norman and Ethel Thayer go down from their cabin to “say goodbye to the lake.” It’s autumn, the leaves have turned, and it’s …
Fast track: Council approves westside pedestrian/bike path
The Rhinelander Common Council has signed off on the addition of a pedestrian/bicycle path that will connect westside residents to the rest of the city.
Fish Like a GIRL
Welcome to London. Not really, but it has been a bit gloomy here and there. Who am I kidding? It was almost monsoon-like conditions the day the concrete was finally going to be poured at our house.
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