Most times, tearing down a dam is more economical and better for the ecology. Already, people in more than 25 states have requested the tool kit. Back to Top Looking for the Buffer Zone State environmental and conservation organizations are pitching new standards to control non-point source pollution into state waterways. The plan would create new state rules for buffer zones between fields and streams. The width of the zones would depend upon the area's amount of cover growth.
Polluted runoff is the number-one source of state water pollution.
The DNR expects a short season because water clarity is very good. Last year, the season closed in a record two days. Sturgeon can live up to 100 years and grow to a length of seven feet and weigh more than 200 pounds. The largest Lake Winnebago lake sturgeon ever registered in the spear fishery was a 180-pound fish taken in 1953 by Elroy Schroeder of Appleton.