“In any moment of decision, the best thing to do is the right thing, the next best thing to do is the wrong thing, and the worst thing that you can do is nothing.” – Theodore Roosevelt For too long, the State of Wisconsin has done the worst thing in the battle against Chronic Wasting Disease.    But, after years of adopting a relatively hands-off approach to managing the disease, earlier this year, the DNR released the results of a study that confirmed what studies from across the nation and ...

The Brule-St. Croix Legacy Forest is a working landscape of the American heartland, 67,205 acres of forest and water with a long history of logging, snowmobiling, hunting and fishing, far from even the nearest cities of Eau Claire or Minneapolis and Duluth. This is rural northern Wisconsin, south of Lake Superior, and writ large, ecologically rich (moose, wolves, black bear, globally unique pine barrens, 80 small lakes and wetlands, 14 miles of trout streams, sharptail grouse dancing on leks ...

In October 2017, the Natural Resources Board amended the Northern Highland-American Legion State Forest master plan to include a proposal to open more forest roads for motor vehicle access.  Currently, there are already 848 miles of roads open each fall for hunters and anglers to use, leaving few areas left in the state forest that sportsmen and women can get away from the roads.  The 35 miles of roads proposed to be opened over the next two years are proposed heavily in these limited remote ...

As you may have already heard, there is currently a bill proposed that would limit public use of navigable waterways.  AB 599/ SB 506 prevents the DNR from declaring a stream a navigable waterway if a private landowner has dammed that stream. The Wisconsin Chapter of Backcountry Hunters and Anglers strongly opposes any limitations to the use of public our public lands and waters. This bill limits the public’s ability to use public waterways. Additionally, the bill exempts these private ...

The Issue:The latest phase of state lands proposed for sale by the state of Wisconsin would result in the direct loss of 1,344 acres of high quality public hunting, fishing and recreational access. Sportsmen need to speak up to stop this state land sale to maintain this important backcountry habitat and our outdoor traditions! Background:In 2012 the Wisconsin state legislature passed a bill (2013 Wisconsin Act 20) that requires the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources to offer for sale ...