April 2024

Meeting will be held on April 22nd at 6:00 PM at the Kro Bar in Brule.

The Club’s cleanup day will take place on April 27th (rain date May 11th). We will meet at 9 AM at the Brule pavilion for assignments. We are planning to provide lunch when the clean-up volunteers are finished at noon.

The deadline to apply for Club’s scholarship is April 30th.  Click on Scholarship Information for BRSC Scholarship details.

The Nuke Egg Dean Wellman, BRSC Financial Secretary – Brule, WI We featured the Glo Bug egg fly in March of 2023.  This March, we’re featuring the “Nuke Egg,” which is a very simple fly using one piece of yarn on top of the hook shank with an added translucent “veil” around the egg.  The…

The monthly flies from 2020 – 2023 are now available in a soft-covered booklet.  If you’d like to get a copy, contact a board member or visit the Club Store by clicking on Club Store.

Oak wilt was first found in 2018 and is most commonly spread along road rights-of-way. It can often be prevented and controlled if NO damage (cutting, pruning, mowing) is done to an oak tree from April 15th through July 15th. For more information, click on Oak Wilt or watch this video Oak Wilt Video. You can also…

An approved variance updates management prescriptions for Motts Ravine by increasing the acres of core area dedicated to barrens management from between 200 and 400 acres to between 1,000 and 1,200 acres. The Motts Ravine area has been identified as capable of supporting and expanding the globally rare and imperiled pine-barrens community type. For more…

There are a few invasive species present along or in the Brule River that need monitoring, but one of the most troubling potential invaders is the New Zealand mudsnail (click on Mudsnails to learn more).  In 2013, mudsnails were discovered for the first time in inland Wisconsin waters in Black Earth Creek, a popular trout…

October 1, 2023 Update Work on the grade removal is finished! All that remains to be done is to shore up all the erosion control work. You will also note that trees (white pine, red pine, oak, spruce and birch) have been planted in the erosion matting and  grass is even beginning to poke through…