By Journal Times staff | Posted: Thursday, August 16, 2007 12:00 am
Bong State Recreation Area
The Richard Bong State Recreation Area in Brighton offers the following naturalist programs for 2007. A vehicle entrance fee ($7 daily; $25 annual state residents) is required to attend all programs. Programs start promptly, so please be on time. For more information on any programs, please call (262) 878-5600.
SATURDAY: Watercolor Cards, 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Always wanted to learn watercolors? Come to this easy class and learn to create a beautiful butterfly note card. Call (262) 878-5600 or stop at the Entrance Station to register. For ages 8 and older; adults must accompany children. Meet at the Visitor Center.
SATURDAY: Animal Detectives, 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Hike in search of tracks, homes and other clues to uncover the secret lives of animals. Meet at the Visitor Center.
Archery
The Racine Instinctive Bowmen's Club is hosting its annual anniversary shoot Aug. 18-19 at the RIB Club at 14403 50th Road in Yorkville. The ranges will feature homemade 3-D targets, McKenzie/Rinehart targets. Registration and breakfast begins at 7 a.m. each day. Various shooting styles are welcome, including sights/fingers, sights/releases, instinctive, traditional (no crossbows) in various classifications (adult, junior, cadet, male and female). Camping will be available, but no hookups. No broadheads, carry-in liquor or pets are allowed. For more information, please call the RIB clubhouse at (262) 835-4975 evenings or visit the Web site at: http://www.ribarchery.com
* Buck Trail Archers is hosting its annual Anniversary Shoot, an outdoor 3-D shoot, this weekend. Hours are 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday.
There will be 28 3-D targets on two fun, but challenging outdoor ranges in the woods. All ages and shooting styles are welcome, except for broadheads. Breakfast and lunch will be served. Beer, snacks, soda and cold water will be available.
For more information, call the Buck Trail Archers' clubhouse at (262) 763-9656. Buck Trail Archers is located in the Town of Burlington at 32622 Yahnke Road (between Hwy. 83 and County P).
Public hearing on VHS rule
The Department of Natural Resources is holding several public hearings on the proposal to enact permanent regulations to slow or stop the spread of viral hemorrhagic septicemia (VHS), a deadly fish virus. The DNR adopted temporary emergency measures recently, but wants to make permanent the rules to limit the movement of fish and water from possible infected waters to stop the spread of the disease, which already has caused large fish kills in Lake Ontario, Lake Erie, Lake St. Clair and the St. Lawrence River and has been found in Lake Michigan and Lake Winnebago.
The southeastern Wisconsin public hearing will be held at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 16 at the DNR Southeast Region Headquarters, 2300 North Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive.
Wheelin' Sportsmen event
People with disabilities are invited to enjoy a day of trap shooting, fishing, boating and more during a special Wheelin' Sportsmen NWTF event at the Lakeview Rod & Gun Club on Big Muskego Lake Sunday, August 12. The event is hosted by the National Wild Turkey Federation's New Berlin Gobblin' Longbeards and the Lakeview Rod & Gun Club.
The event is free for attendees and runs from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. A picnic, music and games are included. All skill levels are invited to attend; volunteers will be on hand to assist.
Wheelin' Sportsmen NWTF provides all people with disabilities the opportunity to enjoy the outdoors through local chapter events nationwide.
For more information about this event, please call Jim Lutzen at (262) 786-4793. For more information about Wheelin' Sportsmen NWTF, log on to: http://www.wheelinsportsmen.org or call or call (800) THE-NWTF.