Icing Cripples Wisconsin Birds Food Supply Across Ice‑Coated Region
In the Medford Rib Lake area during the Christmas count we found rare finches and scarce grosbeaks due to ice glazed seeds and branches. Chickadees and nuthatches clustered at ice-free feeders, while many birds sheltered in cavities. a radio SOS urged extra feeding as a potential wildlife crisis loomed across western Wisconsin.
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Medford-Rib Lake
Clark
Taylor
Clark County
Medford
Willard
Greenwood
Wisconsin
First Gun for Don Hanson a Tough, Earnest Rite of Passage
Don Hanson recalls buying his first .22 caliber Remington when he was 12, saving pennies from milking cows to raise $18 at Werner Hardware in Bloomer. He earned the money slowly in 1932 by feeding the dairy herd and pocketing 12 cents a day, illustrating how youths obtained firearms in lean times.
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Bloomer Dairyman
Don Hanson
Bloomer
Donny Hanson
Hanson
Werner Hardware
Bloomer’s
Werner
University of Wisconsin- Madison
Hard work paid off for Don Hanson with rifle purchase
Don Hanson of Route 3 Bloomer reflects on nearly 50 years of effort that culminated in buying the rifle he had long sought. The item symbolizes perseverance and personal achievement following years of labor and saving.
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Don Hanson
Rt. 3
Bloomer
Kirtland's warbler numbers fall in Michigan census
The yearly Michigan DNR survey shows 207 singing male Kirtland's warblers in the northern Lower Peninsula, down 25 from 1981, with the first Upper Peninsula sighting near Gwinn. DNR officials cite wet spring, wintering Bahamas weather, and other factors as reasons for the drop.
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Kirtland
Michigan
Michigan Department of Natural Resources
Lower Peninsula
DNR
Bahamas
Lawrence Ryer
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C.J
Grand Rapids, Minn
Nest
By Sam Robbins
Mr. Hanson
Kirtland's
Radio Shack
Tandy Corporation
Scripsit
London Square
Eau Claire
Tandy Corp
Midwest Plan Service
Tough Republic
Bob Barth
Fairgrounds
U.S. 10
Neillsville
Berl Gorres
Amery, Wi
Greene Implement, Inc
Osceola
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