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Alt Talks About Deer Managment: Biologists Doubt Hunters' Ability to Control Deer Numbers

If Wisconsin deer hunters think their deer season is surrounded by controversy and political intrigue, they need only look to Pennsylvania to know that deer seasons attract intense interest from hunters, often drawing deer biologists into a quagmire. Like they are in Wisconsin,overabundant deer populations in Pennsylvania are raising concerns about forest regeneration.

For First Time, Trees Chopped in Leopold's Forest

“I have read many definitions of what is a conservationist, and written not a few myself, but I suspect that the best one is written not with a pen, but with an axe. It is a matter of what a man thinks about while deciding what to chop. “A conservationist is one who is humbly aware that with each strike he is writing his signature on the face of the land.” -Aldo Leopold, in his essay “Axe in Hand” This article was written by Tim Eisele for The Capital Times, January 11, 2006.

Trophies Roam in Buffalo County

Buffalo County is reputed to be a top trophy white-tailed deer hunting county in the nation. According to the Boone and Crockett Club, which records trophy deer and other big game animals, it is the nation's top trophy antler-producing county when you combine typical antlers, which are symmetrical, and non-typical antlers, which are more irregularly shaped. This article was written by Tim Eisele and was published in Milwaukee Journal Sentiment on November 13, 2005.

A lifetime dedicated to nature

He lives in the city, yet his heart is on the land. He worked among "ivory towers" as a university professor, but his accomplishments are in the real world. He has advised the Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior and the governor, but he feels most comfortable in a duckmarsh or on a deer stand. He is Harold "Bud" Jordahl, Jr. of Madison, and he has been hip-boot deep in natural resource programs since he started working for the Wisconsin Conservation Department in1950 as a biologist. He took the job after graduating with bachelor's and master's degrees in forestry from the University of Michigan

Jordahl looks forward to deer season

Harold "Bud" Jordahl is an aviddeer hunter, spending each gun deer season hunting his 220-acre farm in Richland County. One of the motivations for buying the farm 30 years ago was to have a place to hunt deer. "I've hunted deer for more than50 years, but some of the best hunts were the first five or six years when my brother and I hunted on that farm," he said."The population of deer then was about five or six deer per square mile of deer habitat. You had to hunt, and that means understand the animals, their movements, their trails and where you should locate your stand."