The 26th annual Wildlife Unlimited banquet will be held Saturday, April 13, at the Iron County Armory located at 107 E. Franklin Ave. in Iron River, Mich.

The doors will open at 4:30 p.m. and dinner will be served at 6:30 p.m.

The evening will include a buffet dinner, silent auctions, raffles and 80 door prizes.

The $60 admission includes meal, membership, a Wildlife Unlimited

With more and more outdoor enthusiasts embracing all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) and utility vehicles (UTVs), Discover Wisconsin recently announced it would showcase four destinations welcoming riders.

The show, airing March 16-17, will be broadcast to approximately 480,000 viewers across the upper Great Lakes region, including Minnesota, Iowa, Northern Illinois and Upper

Remaining permits for the 2013 spring turkey hunting season will be sold on a first-come, first-served basis starting Monday, March 18.

Designated zones will be sold each day, starting at 10 a.m. and continue through midnight or until all permits for that zone or time period are sold out.

In total, 234,130 permits were available for the spring 2013 turkey season, of which approximately 100,000 permits remain for sale.

The following zones have leftover permits, and the scheduled sales dates are as

Area anglers and others are invited to share their preferences and expectations for panfishing in Wisconsin at a meeting in Rhinelander tonight, Wednesday, March 13, and in Woodruff Thursday, March 14.

The Rhinelander meeting will be at the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Service Center, 107 Sutliff Ave. The Woodruff meeting will be at the Woodruff Town Hall, 1418 First St.

Both meetings start at 7 p.m.

A total of 28 meetings

Although the rainy weather kept some anglers indoors over the weekend, a surprising number of anglers ventured out on North Woods lakes to target panfish.

Many people start to get a little shack happy at this time of year and want to get outside no matter what the weather is doing. Those who made it out on the ice the last several days have found varying conditions, from easy going to deep slush and snow.

The 6 inches of new snow the North Woods

Power trolling statewide among the topics

The questionnaire package for the 2013 Department of Natural Resources (DNR)  spring fish and wildlife proposed rules hearings and the Conservation Congress county meetings is now available.

On Monday, April 8, there will be 72 public hearings, one in each Wisconsin county starting at 7 p.m. where people interested in natural resources management have an opportunity to provide their input by non-binding vote and testimony to the DNR, Natural Resources Board and the Conservation Congress on proposed hunting and fishing rule changes and advisory questions.

The package includes a list of hearing

Wisconsin hunting, fishing, trapping and other licenses for the 2013-’14 seasons go on sale today, Wednesday, March 6.

Annual licenses are valid from April 1 through March 31. Hunting and fishing licenses for the 2012-’13 license year expire March 31.

“We’ve had many people calling in asking us when they can buy their new licenses and that’s a great

Preliminary results of the 2012 Wisconsin deer hunter wildlife survey show hunters reported spending 24,868 hours in the field observing wildlife and on average saw 0.39 deer per hour statewide.

The next most frequently observed species was turkey.

In its fourth year, the survey asks Wisconsin deer hunters to