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6 Wisconsin Water Ski Shows That Will Astonish You This Summer

6 Wisconsin Water Ski Shows That Will Astonish You This Summer

Did you know that Wisconsin is the “Show Ski Capital of the World”? It’s true! With more water ski show teams than anywhere else, you’ll find plenty of action staged on our many sparkling lakes and rivers. Teams all around the state spend the summers performing water...

DNR to Hold Aquatic Plant Management Rules Revision Roadshows

DNR to Hold Aquatic Plant Management Rules Revision Roadshows

  Agency provides four opportunities for public comment on changes to NR 107 and NR 109, the administrative rules covering aquatic plant management The Wisconsin Dept. of Natural Resources is pursuing revisions and changes to the administrative rules governing...

FISHING REGULATIONS Fishing Wisconsin

FISHING REGULATIONS Fishing Wisconsin

Fishing regulations are used as a tool to ensure good fishing exists in the future. Fishing regulations are used to: control angler impacts on fish populations; maintain numbers and sizes of fish in a lake or stream; provide different types of fishing experiences,...

AQUATIC PLANTS

AQUATIC PLANTS

Aquatic plants form the foundation of healthy and flourishing lake ecosystems - both within lakes and rivers and on the shores around them. They not only protect water quality, but they also produce life-giving oxygen. Aquatic plants are a lake's own filtering system,...

It started in Wisconsin…

It started in Wisconsin…

DID YOU KNOW? Water skiing was invented in 1922, when Ralph Samuelson used a pair of boards as skis and a clothesline as a tow rope on Lake Pepin, the largest lake on the Mississippi River (in between Minnesota and Wisconsin.) Samuelson went on to teach the sport for...