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March 1 & 7 – The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources will hold a series of public open house meetings to discuss proposed changes in areas closed to waterfowl hunting along the Mississippi River in order to make it easier for hunters to understand boundaries and to assure the same acreages of land will be open to hunting. A new U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service management plan has changed the boundaries on closed areas within the Upper Mississippi Wildlife and Fish Refuge. Those changes allow hunting in some of the federal refuge previously closed and close hunting in some areas previously open. Rather than a patchwork new federal rules would create, Wisconsin proposes changes to state rules so that only one closed area boundary will exist. This should be easier for hunters to locate. An open water hunting prohibition in Grant County waters in Pool 11, and all closed areas of interest to attendees will also be addressed. For more information contact Wildlife Biologist Mark Andersen, (608) 785-9994 or Conservation Warden Steve Dewald, (608) 785-9970. The remaining open house sessions all run from 4 to 8 p.m. at the following locations: