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Newspaper
Country Today
Location
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1983
Page
16
Wildlife experts caution that a single-year grain acreage diversion offers limited wildlife benefits. Ed Frank of the DNR urges multi-year conservation with perennial cover and wildlife food crops, stressing location, timing, and careful management to avoid harming nesting birds and deer and to align with farmers’ economic needs.
ASCS officials outline cost sharing limits for wildlife food patches and conserving-use acres. Details cover planting, grazing rules, and crop choices like oats corn sorghum soybeans millet and sunflowers to support deer pheasants and other wildlife while protecting nesting habitat and snow cover.
Wisconsin DNA Secretary Besaday criticized the one year diversion as offering limited wildlife value and risking a quick return to row crops. County agent Frank argues multi year grassy cover with adjacent fields yields greater benefits for pheasants quail and other species and notes USDA has not formally replied.
A Wisconsin Conservation Corps proposal backed by a subcommittee would fund about 250 jobs for 18 to 25 year olds at roughly $10,000 yearly plus an education scholarship after a year of service. The plan uses $2.5 million annually from state forestry funds through 1983-85, run by a seven member governor appointed board with DNR administering the work.
Circuit Court judge continued a ban on Mark Ort shooting deer on his tree plantation while considering compensation. The judge cited inadequate wildlife damage guidelines and a 1980 repeal of compensation statutes. Ort seeks state permission to reduce the herd despite a DNR permit and local landowner objections.
Four American laid Siberian crane eggs were flown to the Oka Nature Reserve north of Moscow in a joint effort by the International Crane Foundation. The shipment, delayed Madison takeoff for TV crews, aims to hatch chicks and guide migrations via nests with common cranes. The box also carried six sandhill crane eggs, and the birds’ eggs were previously stolen by Soviet scientists in Yakutia in 1977 and 1978.
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