*Please call Erica (608)689-2605 #127 or email erica_rasmussen@fws.gov for setting up a date and time to volunteer. Thank you! ? Sorting fathead minnows (Mid-March)? Tagging Lake Sturgeon (August/September)? Pond Harvest (October)? Kids Ice Fishing Day (2/1/25) & Kids Fishing Day … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: December 2024
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) annually stocks more than a million brook trout of different life stages across the country. In the Midwest region, Iron River National Fish Hatchery maintains a captive line of Isle Royale strain coaster … Continue reading
The late fall is a busy time for Genoa NFH’s freshwater mussel program. Staff and volunteers have been gathering juvenile mussels from various growing season culture systems and getting them settled into over-winter systems in the mussel building at the … Continue reading
Each fall, the previous year’s cohort of Hine’s Emerald Dragonfly larvae are packed up and transferred to overwintering culture systems at the University of South Dakota, and at the same time the new year’s cohort of eggs arrives. The larvae … Continue reading
What another amazing experience for first time waterfowl hunters! The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Wisconsin Waterfowl Association and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service partnered for a second year to put on a learn to hunt waterfowl event specifically … Continue reading