January 2025

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…

Happy New Year! Meeting will be held online because many board members are “snowbirds.”

Terms for board members Ken Zivic, Mike Sierszen, Jim Waletzko and Glen Hill end in December. All four were nominated to new terms by Dean Wellman with a second by Mike Sierszen. Their nominations were approved by unanimous approval voice vote. All four graciously accepted their nominations. The election will be held in December. Ken…

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…

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…

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…