Todd Richmond Associated Press
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Republicans who control the state Senate’s sporting heritage committee voted Thursday against confirming four of Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ appointees to the Natural Resources Board, a move that could delay a board vote on the agency's contentious wolf management plan
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The leader of the Wisconsin Natural Resources Board signaled support Wednesday for the department's contentious new wolf management plan even though the document lacks a hard population cap that hunters and farmers have demanded
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The Great Lakes’ frigid fresh water used to keep shipwrecks so well preserved that divers could see dishes in the cupboards
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin sawmill has agreed to pay about $191,000 and submit to multiple sanctions after a 16-year-old boy was killed on the job this past summer.
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Republican legislators are considering a bill that would weaken Wisconsin regulators' oversight of small zoos. Right now public and private zoos accredited by the American Zoo and Aquarium Association are exempt from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources' licensure requirements.
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Environmental groups across the country have worked for the last two decades to introduce members of underrepresented populations to the overwhelmingly white conservation world
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The yearslong legal fight over former President Donald Trump’s decision to divert billions of dollars to build a U.S.-Mexico border wall has formally ended.
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The Wisconsin Justice Department wants to bow out of a multistate lawsuit challenging former President Donald Trump's decision to divert money meant for National Guard units to his border wall.
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Wisconsin regulators can't legally impose environmental regulations on factory farms before they become operational, two farm advocacy groups allege in a lawsuit that could dramatically loosen protections against manure pollution in state waters.
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A federal judge signaled Wednesday that he likely won't stop a northern Wisconsin tribe from blocking roads on its reservation while non-tribal property owners pursue a lawsuit against the band