February 20, 2004

State ag officials announced last week that the National Veterinary Services Laboratory in Ames, Iowa, verified that a 51/2-year-old buck shot at Buckhorn Flats Game Farm in Almond, Wis., during a paid hunt in October, had CWD. Six other deer on the preserve have tested positive. A state agency ordered all the farm’s animals euthanized […]

The proposal is to remove the dam and construct a rock rapids upstream to provide for fish passage while maintaining much of the pool that now exists behind the dam. Bank stabilization also will be part of the project. A questionnaire on the project is available on the USFWS web site at http://midwest.fws.gov/NEPA. Copies of

The DNR’s purchase of the land means Hoff’s Slough will become part of the Danvers Wildlife Management Area likely by this fall. The combined area will contain nearly 3,000 acres of permanently protected wildlife habitat open to the public. Hoff’s Slough features a major restored wetland and is key to the area’s overall wetland management,

Contributing Writer It’s no secret that southeast Minnesota is the top destination for spring turkey hunters. While the population has exploded in other regions of the state, particularly in the Minnesota River Valley, the southeast has the highest densities of wild turkeys in the state. The region’s mature oak forests provide the perfect environment for

Associate Editor Albert Lea, Minn. The throngs gathered near the dam leading from Fountain Lake to Albert Lea Lake in southern Minnesota last Friday, waiting for the chance to catch by several means some of the lake’s walleyes, northerns, crappies, and assorted rough fish before they succumbed to oxygen depravation. Curt Benson, who lives on

Input Group shows near-unanimous support for Joe Fellegy’s resolutions By Rob Drieslein Editor St. Paul DNR Fisheries managers planned to unveil a 2004 open-water walleye season regulation by the end of the week. A second meeting between the DNR and the Mille Lacs Fisheries Input Group, a committee of local business owners, guides, and anglers,

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Field Editor St. Paul Minnesota DNR officials are considering what to do about spinning wing decoys, following a recent study that suggests they are a lethally effective hunting tool. In this Minnesota study, killing rates on mallards and other ducks increased nearly five-fold when spinning wing decoys were used. Presently, mechanical spinning wing decoys are