February 2025

Meeting will be held virtually because many board members are “snowbirds.”

Many anglers in the western U.S. are snagged in an ethical dilemma brought on by a warming climate: When the trout you’re fishing need cold water, and cold water is increasingly scarce, how and when should you fish? Click on, Too Hot to read about the problem in Montana.

Now is the time to renew your annual Brule River Sportsmen Club membership! If you wish, you can use our online store to renew your membership, make donations, and purchase any merchandise. Just click on Club Store. The online store allows you to pay online via PayPal or to print off a form and renew by…

Karen Hyun will be the state’s next secretary of the Department of Natural Resources, a cabinet position that’s gone unfilled for more than a year. Hyun will assume the office on Jan. 27, and her appointment marks the end of the office’s longest vacancy in more than 50 years. She is the first woman to…

The aging and perched culvert under Wisconsin State Highway 27 will be replaced. The project is being designed by the Wisconsin DOT with the Wisconsin DNR and Trout Unlimited providing design review. Designs are expected to be completed in 2025 with construction occurring in summer 2026. The replacement will allow greater fish passage and also…

Proposed legislation (HR 8167) introduced by Georgia congressman Andrew Clyde (https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/8167?r=4&s=1) would eliminate Pittman Robertson funding. The Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Act, enacted in 1937 is now known as the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act and provides funding for states and territories to support wildlife restoration, conservation, and hunter education and safety programs. The proposed…