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The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has been keeping the public informed through a regular print periodical for more than 100 years. Wisconsin Natural Resources magazine began in 1977 as the latest in a line of publications that included the Wisconsin Conservation Bulletin and, before that, The Wisconsin Conservationist.

Older issues of Wisconsin Natural Resources are available in our free archives through the UW-Madison Libraries Digital Collections. Issues of the historic Wisconsin Conservation Bulletin are available from the HathiTrust Digital Library, a collaborative of academic and research libraries. Go to hathitrust.org and type "Wisconsin Conservation Bulletin" in the search line for free viewing.

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