Wisconsin Fishing & Hunting Guide - Pocket Ranger®

The FREE Official Wisconsin Fishing, Hunting & Wildlife Pocket Ranger® Guide was created in a collaborative effort between the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and ParksByNature Network™ at no cost to the state.

Gain access to useful information in the palm of your hand. This innovative outdoor guide, powered by Pocket Ranger® technology, brings the wilderness to your fingertips and helps you plan the perfect adventure in the great outdoors. You will be able to locate Wisconsins fishing and wilderness sites and gain immediate access to on-the-spot species profiles, rules and regulations, and important permits and licensing details.

Advanced GPS technology enhances any trek through the woods, allowing you to record trails and use waypoints and photo waypoints to mark traps and keep track of wildlife sightings. With the app’s “Nearest Me” feature, uncover which wildlife resource management areas or public fishing areas are closest to you, so you can embark on your adventure right away. With the Wisconsin Fishing, Hunting & Wildlife Pocket Ranger® Guide in your pocket, you’ll be able to spend more time fishing and wildlife viewing and less time trying to recall details from memory.

Pocket Ranger® provides plenty of other standard features and advanced GPS technology to maximize any outdoor excursion:

•Places to fish and hunt
•Game and species profiles
•Rules and regulations
•License and permit information
•Safety communication tool
•Advanced GPS mapping features
•Cache map tiles for offline use
•Record tracks, distance and time
•Mark waypoints and photo waypoints
•Recall, post or share saved data
•Accuracy and distance indicator
•Friend Finder feature that allows users to keep track of friends and family along the way
•Built-in compass to help users navigate
•Real-time calendar of events
•News and advisories
•Potentially life-saving Alert feature that supplies users’ GPS coordinates to designated contacts in case of an emergency.


With essential fishing and wildlife viewing information at your fingertips, prepare to experience Wisconsins backcountry like never before.

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•The enhanced features on the app are designed to function in areas with little to no mobile reception; however, some of the features require mobile data reception in order to function properly.

•Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.