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Archives for July 2014

Wisconsin 2014 Deer Hunt Is All Different

July 25, 2014 by Charlie Leave a Comment

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Be aware Wisconsin Deer Hunters, August 18th at 10 o’clock starts the over the counter sale of antlerless permits on a first come first serve basis.  There are numerous changes concerning deer hunters they need to  get informed, understand and be ready for deer hunt 2014 well in advance of the season’s start.

In case you have not heard 2014 deer licensing has major changes.  Counties are now the new deer management areas with each one assigned to one of these 4 zones. Wisconsin Deer Management Zones 2014

  • Northern Forest
  • Central Farmland
  • Central Forest
  • Southern Farmland

Antlerless tags sales begin on August 18th and continue until sold out.  A hunter may buy one tag per day until the county is sold out. It is very likely all permits will be sold well before the opening of gun deer season, perhaps before the archery deer season.  So plan to purchase your permits early. Remember permits are good for private or public land but not both.

  • Monday, August 18 at 10 a.m. – Northern and Central Forest Zones
    Tuesday, August 19 at 10 a.m. – Central Farmland Zone
    Wednesday, August 20 at 10 a.m. – Southern Farmland Zone
    Starting August 21 at 10 a.m. – all zones can be purchased continuing until sold out.

Wisconsin 2014 Antlerless Permit Information this link includes a county by county number of available antlerless permits for both public and private lands. Permits cost $12 for residents and $20 for nonresident deer hunters.   $5 for ages 10 and 11 hunters.

Crossbows are legal for all Wisconsin hunters starting fall 2014.  The crossbow season is concurrent with the archery season and  requires the purchase of a crossbow license.  Or the combination archer/crossbow license for $27.  With the combination license a  hunter is free hunt with either as their mood or conditions dictate.

 

 

Filed Under: News Tagged With: deer, hunting, news, Wisconsin deer

Wisconsin 2014 Fall Turkey Application Deadline

July 21, 2014 by Charlie Leave a Comment

Most turkey hunters do not realize toms gobble and respond to calls in the fall too.

Most turkey hunters do not realize toms gobble and respond to calls in the fall too.

Yes it is true Wisconsin has available more turkey permits than they sell each year in units 1,3 and 4.  However, in the other units; 2,5,6 and 7 turkey permits are available to those who enter the drawing, sometimes there are no or very few permits available for over the counter sales.   The application deadline is August 1 and you may apply online, phone or in person at a license agent.

I posted details on all fall appllication deadlines here

Wisconsin 2014 Fall turkey

  • 96,700 wild turkey permits are expected to be available to hunters for the fall 2014 turkey hunting season  same number of permits that were offered in 2013.
  • Please note that this number is preliminary and may be revised following review.
  • Any fall turkey permits remaining after the initial drawing will go on sale at 10 a.m. on Aug. 23.
  • Leftover fall turkey permits will be sold by zone until sold out or the season ends. Hunters who receive fall turkey permits in Zones 1-5 will be able to fill their unused permits during the extended season in the zone where the permits were issued.

Application Deadline is August 1, 2014

Wisconsin Fall Turkey 2014 Season Dates

  • Sept. 13 to Nov. 20 for all seven of Wisconsin’s turkey management zones; and an extended fall turkey season for Zones 1-5 from Dec. 1 to Dec. 31.

Wisconsin has one the longest most liberal fall turkey seasons in the country. Make plans to give it a try.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: news, Turkey Hunting

2014 Wisconsin License Permit Application Deadlines

July 8, 2014 by Charlie Leave a Comment

Wisconsin 2014 Fall turkey

  • 96,700 wild turkey permits are expected to be available to hunters for the fall 2014 turkey hunting season  same number of permits that were offered in 2013.
  • Please note that this number is preliminary and may be revised following review.
  • Any fall turkey permits remaining after the initial drawing will go on sale at 10 a.m. on Aug. 23.
  • Leftover fall turkey permits will be sold by zone until sold out or the season ends. Hunters who receive fall turkey permits in Zones 1-5 will be able to fill their unused permits during the extended season in the zone where the permits were issued.

Application Deadline is August 1, 2014

Wisconsin Fall Turkey 2014 Season Dates

  • Sept. 13 to Nov. 20 for all seven of Wisconsin’s turkey management zones; and
  • an extended fall turkey season for Zones 1-5 from Dec. 1 to Dec. 31.

Canada geese

NRB  will set waterfowl season dates at its Aug. 13 meeting.

  •  Note that Horicon zone hunters no longer need to apply in advance for hunting tags. Hunters in this zone will simply need to indicate their zone preference when they purchase a license. Licenses are available for purchase at any time prior to hunting.
  • Season dates for waterfowl vary annually and will not be available until the Natural Resources Board acts in August.

Bobcat, fisher and otter

Quotas for bobcat, fisher and otter will be available on the DNR web page in late July

  • No major changes are expected from last year. An additional Southern bobcat zone (all of Wis. south of Hwy 64) has been approved for 2014.
  • Those interested in hunting and/or trapping bobcats will need to apply to a specific zone (north or south) and time period (period 1 or 2) for the upcoming season. Bobcat applicant preference points will continue as in the past.

Final permit numbers will be final in August

  •  Drawings for all three species will take place in late August or early September.

Application deadline is August 1, 2014

Season dates

  • bobcat hunting and trapping: Period 1: Oct. 18 to Dec. 25; Period 2: Dec. 26 to Jan. 31, 2015;
  • fisher (trapping only): Oct. 18 through Dec. 31; and
  • otter (trapping only): North Zone Nov. 2, 2013 through April 30, 2014; Central & South zones Nov. 2, 2013 through March 31, 2014.

Wolf

The total wolf quota has been set at 156

  •  quota available to state-licensed hunters and trappers may be adjusted depending on state response to tribal declarations.
  • WDNR will maintain a 10-to-1 license-to-quota ratio.
  • One-half of available permits will be issued randomly among all permit applicants
  • Second half will be issued through a cumulative preference point drawing.
  • Successful applicants will be notified by letter or check their drawing status through the DNR website or via  licensing agents.
  • It is the applicants responsibility to know their drawing status. Applicants who are not successful in the drawing will be awarded a preference point toward future drawings.

Season Dates

  • Starts  in all zones on Oct. 15 and is open until the zone is closed by DNR or the last day of February, whichever occurs first.
  • WDNR has the authority to close hunting zones when quotas are met or if deemed biologically necessary.

Filed Under: Fall Turkey, News, Turkey Hunting Tagged With: 2014 WI turkey permit, hunting, news, Turkey Hunting, Wisconsin Turkey Hunting

2014 Wisconsin Deer Assessment

July 1, 2014 by Charlie Leave a Comment

What will the fall of 2014 deer harvest be like after a record-breaking harsh winter? This is the question on the minds of most of Wisconsin’s 600,000 deer hunters.

of the car-killed deer assessments conducted by Department of Natural Resources wildlife officials. This finding is in line with field observations from DNR wildlife biologists throughout the state and reports from the public.

This spring, 522 deer were sampled statewide during a period when fat reserves were at their lowest point of the year. Local wildlife biologists inspected and gathered data from deer that were killed in vehicular collisions to evaluate pregnancy rate and fat stores at various points within the deer carcass, including the rump, around the heart and kidneys and in the bone marrow.

Dan Storm, a DNR research ecologist-

“Last January, we heard a lot of concerns about the potential winter impacts on the deer herd.  From our radio-collared deer studies, we’ve learned a lot about how winter impacts our northern deer, but we didn’t have similar projects in the southern half of the state. Our research and wildlife staff quickly put a plan in place to look at car-killed deer. This was a very inexpensive and informative way for us to monitor winter impacts on deer throughout the state.”

Fat stores are a key indicator of nutritional condition as deer rely on these reserves, accumulated during summer and fall, to survive winter. Fatter does are able to provide better care to their newborns, which increases survival and is important to herd growth rates – fawn survival is closely linked to doe nutritional condition.

According to the WDNR findings:

In the southern portion of the state, 40 percent of adult deer sampled had rump fat, while rump fat was present in only 14 percent of adult deer sampled in the north. A greater proportion of deer in the north had little or no organ fat, as opposed to deer in the south. Similarly, bone marrow condition was better in the south than the north, and adults were more likely to have fatty marrow than juveniles in both the north and south.

Regardless of where in the state deer in the study were collected, the evaluations revealed that nearly all adult does were pregnant.

“Pregnancy rates among adult does were greater than 90 percent across the state, even in the northern forest, We wouldn’t expect the severe winter to impact this year’s pregnancy rates, because the deer became pregnant before winter began.”

While adult pregnancy rates did not differ between regions of the state, pregnancy rates of juvenile deer approaching their first birthday and the average number of fawns being carried were found to be quite different from north to south and between major habitat types throughout the state.

Dan Storm-

“The rate of adults carrying twins exceeded 60 percent in both the central and southern farmland zones, while the rate of single fawns for these zones was approximately 9 percent. In contrast, fewer does in the northern forest zone were pregnant with twins and many were carrying a single fawn.”

Juvenile does (under one year old) exhibited much lower pregnancy rates than adult does. Less than 10 percent of juveniles in the northern forest and nearly 20 percent in the central farmland zone were pregnant. Differences in litter size between the farmland and forest zones likely reflected differences in habitat productivity and the late spring experienced in 2013 in the Northern Forest Zone. A late spring limits the food supply available to deer, which in turn limits the amount of resources deer can use to create offspring.

Filed Under: Deer Hunting, News Tagged With: hunting, news, WI deer hunting

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