conservation congress

Conservation Congress 2024 Results

Thanks to all of you who participated in the DNR's Spring Conservation Congress Hearing and Expressions of Opinion (the DNR and Conservation Congress doesn't like to call the voting voting). With the help of conservation organizations such as Southern Wisconsin Bird Alliance and folks like you, we might have made some progress on some important issues. 

Photo by Arlene Koziol

Conservation Congress needs your voice

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE consider participating in the on-line Wisconsin Conservation Congress Spring Hearing and Elections. They begin (tonight!) at 7:00pm on Monday, April 12 and end at 6:59pm on Thursday, April 15, 2021. Visit this website to access the questions and submit your feedback.

Photo by Carolyn Byers

Big change to DNR/Conservation Congress hearings

One of the venerable traditions in Wisconsin's conservation activity is the spring hearing conducted in each of Wisconsin's 72 counties by the DNR and the Conservation Congress. Its agenda includes in-person discussions and votes on changes to DNR's fishing, hunting, and trapping regulations and environmental policy and the election of county delegates to the Conservation Congress.

But COVID-19 has brought a huge change to the hearing. In the announcement you see here, the DNR has suspended the in-person portion of the hearings. They will be conducted entirely online. The announcement instructs how each of us can participate.

Photo courtesy of Forest Historical Society, FCC