News & Reports
The DNR Spring hearings will be held in all 72 counties at 7:00 PM on Monday, April 8. Detailed information is available here – 2019 DNR Spring Hearings. The Iron County meeting will be held at the Iron County Memorial Building, 201 Iron St., Hurley, WI 54534.
A fisheries management question extremely important to the TFF is on the agenda. Question 17 asks: Do you favor applying a 12-inch minimum length limit, but only one fish greater than 15 inches, and a daily bag limit of 3 walleyes on the Turtle- Flambeau Flowage, Trude Lake, Flambeau River upstream of Turtle- Flambeau Flowage (at Murray’s Landing), Little Turtle River, and the Manitowish River upstream of Flambeau River to the Rest Lake Dam (including Benson Lake, Sturgeon Lake, and Vance Lake)? This is the new proposed regulation developed by our fish manager Zach Lawson, and has received unanimous support by our fish management committee. We urge everyone to support this new regulation.
Please try to attend the meeting, but if you cannot, for the first time you can provide your input to the spring hearings online. The online input option will be provided through a link that will be posted here – 2019 DNR Spring Hearings, and will go live at 7:00 p.m. on April 8. The online version will remain open for three days (72 hours).
Zach Wilson of the Iron County Land & Water Conservation Department recently prepared the annual 2018 Aquatic Invasive Species (AIS) report for the TFF. Much of the work on AIS control has been done by Zach, two summer LTEs and volunteers from our association led by Randy Payne. Related work on water quality in the TFF was also done by many of our volunteers led by Mike and Beth Myers. Thanks to everyone involved, you can read the report here – 2018 AIS report for TFF
Three regional DNR master plans covering the Northwest Sands, Northwest Lowlands, and Superior Coastal Plain property planning regions are now available for public review and comment through Jan. 6, 2019. The regions primarily consist of portions of Douglas, Bayfield, Ashland, Burnett, and Washburn counties with small portions in Polk, Iron and Sawyer counties. Two public meetings will be held NEXT WEEK. Go here for more information – https://dnr.wi.gov/news/
A draft “Statewide Comprehensive Outdoor Recreation Plan” (SCORP) has been recently developed by the DNR. A public meeting on the plan will be held December 19, and the public will have until January 4 to submit comments on the plan. Go here for more information – https://dnr.wi.gov/news/