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MADISON, WI --(Ammoland.com)- The Department of Natural Resources firmly supports the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in delisting the wolf in the upper Great Lakes states. Wisconsin has exceeded its delisting goal eight times over and must have flexibility to manage problem wolves if any support for wolves by the public is to continue. While the department is committed to long-term conservation of wolves in Wisconsin, it is critical that we be allowed to manage wildlife populations within our borders. Wisconsin has approximately 800 wolves; this is the most wolves ever counted in the state. Wolf numbers far exceed the...

A Colorado inmate has filed a lawsuit because prison guards revived him in contravention of his do-not-resuscitate orders. Daniel Self claims he was wrongfully convicted in the shooting death of his pregnant girlfriend, and his life sentence is worse than death, the Denver Post reports. “Death would be welcome relief," he tells the newspaper.

A stolen tomato appears to have led police to a suspect in last week's theft from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. Timothy Keith Heidenreich, 39, made a call from the Washington County Jail, according to search warrants filed Wednesday, and asked a friend for help moving items allegedly stolen from the DNR office in St. Paul. Heidenreich was in jail for stealing a tomato from a lunchroom. A Washington County sheriff's sergeant told St. Paul police about the call Jan. 10. When an officer listened to recordings, he heard Heidenreich tell "Terry," "It's really good stuff and worth a...

My dad used to tell me, "Chris you're often judged by the company you keep." Now Dad's words were true, but also had a mission to hopefully keep me away from derelicts who'd lead me astray down paths of destruction later in life. Somehow, those were the first words I'd hear ringing in my head when I inevitably ran into undesirables during my various encounters of youth. They were also the first words I heard ringing in my head when I read this line. "Wisconsin DNR partnered with the Humane Society of the United States (yes, that HSUS) to save...

An Assembly attempt to override Gov. Jim Doyle's veto of a bill that would strip the governor's power to appoint Department of Natural Resources secretaries failed by six votes Tuesday. The bill's chief Assembly sponsor, Rep. Spencer Black, D-Madison, criticized those who opposed the override, saying they were acting based on political convenience and pressure from special interest groups. "I've heard excuse after excuse," Black told lawmakers. Democrats have long sought to strip the governor's power to appoint DNR secretaries after Tommy Thompson made the position a Cabinet post in 1995. In November, the governor vetoed AB 138, which would...

A patient who suffered a heart attack on a hospital ward died because clerical staff had mistakenly inserted a ‘Do Not Attempt Resuscitation’ form into his medical notes. Peter Clarke was not treated by doctors after going into cardiac arrest as a nurse had spotted the form in his files and, even though it was blank and had not been filled in, told other ward staff he should not be revived. The blunder emerged at an inquest into the incident at Derby Hospitals NHS Trust, where bosses revealed staff had been ‘routinely’ placing the forms alongside medical records before they...

In some of the rooms in the hospice unit at Franklin Hospital, in Valley Stream on Long Island, the patients were sleeping because their organs were shutting down, the natural process of death by disease. But at least one patient had been rendered unconscious by strong drugs. The patient, Leo Oltzik, an 88-year-old man with dementia, congestive heart failure and kidney problems, was brought from home by his wife and son, who were distressed to see him agitated, jumping out of bed and ripping off his clothes. Now he was sleeping soundly with his mouth wide open. “Obviously, he’s much...

LANSING - VanSingel Farms harvests 50,000 pounds of carrots per day. But those carrots aren't making it into soups, salads or carrot cakes. Instead, they're strewn across 40 acres of land waiting to rot. "We don't know how to get rid of them," said Steve De Fouw, who sells produce for VanSingel, a 1,500-acre operation in Grant. Though the farm grows carrots for soup, its contract ran out in October, and it's now left with excess stock and nowhere to sell it, De Fouw said. Michigan's apple, carrot and sugar beet crops may be heading to new destinations this year...

DNR is dealt a setback to its mission of conservation The agency must use E85 in its vehicles. And, as the ethanol boom grows, grasslands are lost to corn. Before buying vehicles doesn't the private citizen weigh the pros and cons of the purchase? So why is it so unreasonable for the state to … read more do so? Of course this is the same agency that is going to destroy the current largest fishing lake in Wright County on belief you can't have ducks and fish in the same body of water. This is just one more reason for...

Saturday, May 3, 2008 6:38 AM CDT Postville men arrested, charged with 27 fishing violations WEST UNION (AP) --- Three men have been arrested and charged with 27 fishing violations after using beer cans to catch trout from a northeastern Iowa creek. Authorities say an off-duty Fayette County deputy noticed suspicious fishing activity at Glovers Creek trout stream earlier this week. He called the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. DNR officials accuse the three men of illegally tying fishing lines to empty beer cans, then dragging the cans with the catch to shore. Authorities seized the trout, illegal fishing lines,...

Methods to identify a patient with a Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) order are incredibly varied across hospitals, ranging from written documentation practices to the use of color-coded wristbands. According to a new study in the Journal of Hospital Medicine, a national effort to standardize color-coded wristbands, likely around a few specific indications (e.g., DNR status, allergy, fall risk, etc.), would remove current practice variations and the associated potential for errors. There are currently no standards of color choice for hospitals using color-coded wristbands, and each hospital has a different set of colors for different indications. This lack of standardization creates...

As the school bus rolled to a stop outside her Lake County home, Beth Jones adjusted the bright yellow document protruding from the pouch of her daughter's wheelchair, making sure it was clearly visible. In bold letters it warned, "Do Not Resuscitate." The DNR order goes everywhere with Katie, including her 2nd-grade classroom at Laremont School in Gages Lake. The school is part of the Special Education District of Lake County, where an emotional two-year discussion ended this summer when officials agreed to honor such directives. Now, district officials find themselves in the unusual position of having planned the steps...

During the last two months of life, Dorothy Glas endured so many blood tests her thin arms turned black and blue. The 85-year-old woman submitted to probes of her abdomen. Radiologists scanned her brain, kidneys, thyroid and heart. A psychiatrist screened her for depression. "My mother told him, 'Of course I'm depressed! I'm dying. How can you be happy?'" said her daughter, Meredith Snedeker of Hamilton Square. Glas withered to 80 pounds from an intestinal infection and, after a fall, entered the hospital in July for the final time, complaining of dizziness and a cut foot. The medicine revved up...

FARMINGTON (AP) --A hunter and his father are paying the price for violating hunting laws and boasting about it on an Internet message board, the state Division of Natural Resources said Thursday. Robert Daniel ''Murphy'' Kane II, 26, and his father were fined after the DNR was tipped off Jan. 23 to the posting, which included photos, on an outdoors-related message board. In the posting, Kane bragged of killing two bucks on the first day of the 2006 buck season, said Sgt. Roy Cool of the DNR's Law Enforcement Section District 1 office in Farmington. The legal limit is one...

America Radio, the liberal news and talk radio network headlined by the comedian Al Franken, has another week to find a buyer. A lawyer for the network, Tracy Klestadt, told a bankruptcy hearing Monday that the company was in "advanced negotiations with a few parties" about a sale, and expected to have more definitive news on a deal in a week. Under its financing agreement, the network had faced a deadline of this Wednesday to have a deal in place for a buyer, but Klestadt said the network's lender had informally agreed to extend the deadline by about a week....

MADISON, WI (AP) -- Bag a doe before a buck? Heaven forbid. Stop feeding deer in the backyard? No way. Delay a construction project because an endangered snake might slink by? Ridiculous. Over the last four years, the Republican-controlled Legislature has butted heads with the state Department of Natural Resources on everything from deer hunting to snakes - scaling back the agency's regulations and lambasting its officials as heavy-handed. That all could change come January. Democrats wrestled back control of the state Senate in this month's election. The GOP still controls the state Assembly, but the DNR, controlled by Democratic...

By BILL SCHANEN IV Ozaukee Press staff Posted 2-9-06 John Stroik insists he didn’t know what he was doing was illegal, but that hasn’t deterred the Department of Natural Resources. Stroik was busted after a DNR investigation that started in November with an anonymous complaint. Unbeknownst to Stroik, wardens searched his property, taking photographs for evidence. They mapped Stroik’s land and devised a strategy in case the suspect made a run for it. Then they moved in on Stroik only to find him waiting for them and ready to confess. His crime? Feeding wildlife — turkeys, to be exact, Stroik...

Minnesota waterfowlers will be allowed two fewer ducks in the bag this fall than last, and the limit on hen mallards during a 60-day season has been cut from two to one, the Department of Natural Resources said last week. The reduction from last year's six-duck daily bag limit was due in part to a drop last year in the Mississippi Flyway duck harvest of about 1 million birds from 2003. Minnesota's 2004 harvest declined 23 percent. Additionally, Minnesota's breeding duck population this spring was the lowest since the drought years of the 1980s. Mallards, down 37 percent from 2004,...

Tuesday, January 11, 2005 Wis. seeks more Hmong hunting instructors ------------------------------------------------------------------------ By Robert Imrie Associated Press — Jan. 11, 2005 WAUSAU, Wis. — A Hmong liaison officer for Wisconsin hopes to find another 20 volunteers from Hmong communities statewide to teach hunter education classes to aspiring new hunters. Kou Xiong of the state Department of Natural Resources says he is one of only three Hmong certified to teach the classes out of about 4,900 volunteer teachers, most of them white men. "We just cannot find anyone," Xiong said. "The Hmong kids just feel that if they have a Hmong instructor,...

Ski Sprites' Future May Be in Trouble Tuesday, the Eau Claire City Council will debate whether the Ski Sprites water ski team can keep their shows at Half Moon Lake for one more summer. If it doesn't pass, the Ski Sprites won't have a home, because late Monday afternoon, the D.N.R notified the city it will not get a permit to move the Ski Sprites to Dells pond at Mount Simon Park. The Sprites had wanted to move to Dells Pond because Half Moon Lake is about to undergo two years of tests to determine the best way to preserve...