By Frank Hinchey Contributing Writer DNA evidence is a tool commonly used in today’s modern law enforcement community to help solve murders and other violent crimes. But, forensic science is not exclusive to the human world. The DNR Division of Wildlife is adding deer DNA “fingerprinting” to its crime-fighting arsenal. The wildlife division supplied the […]
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By Jeff Mulhollem Editor Harrisburg — It looks like the Pennsylvania Game Commis-sion is heading toward a compromise on deer-management. The agency’s deer-management biologists have been directed to present commissioners with a range of options for seasons and antlerless allocations at the board’s April 17-18 meeting. “We have said to our deer team, start looking
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Ohio’s Lake Erie tributary rivers and streams offer some of the best steelhead fishing in the United States, and one of the best times to take advantage of this opportunity is now, according to David Kelch, extension specialist with the Ohio Sea Grant Program. During the fall, steelhead begin entering streams from the Vermilion River
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By Mike Moore Editor Columbus — While the shotgun and muzzleloader harvest for whitetails dipped a bit during the 2005-2006 hunting season, a productive youth hunt and archery kill pushed the overall numbers into near record territory. The all-seasons bag for this past hunting season checked in at 209,513, ranking it second in history to
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By Tim Spielman Associate Editor Hugo, Minn. — Look at nearly any type of waterfowl management activity that exists today – from annual duck surveys to the way flyway councils function – and it’s likely to have been touched in some way by Art Hawkins, a former U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist. Hawkins, of
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Staff Report Ashley, Ohio — Although official numbers won’t be in until April, a DNR Division of Wildlife biologist said there were likely about 200,000 pheasants harvested during the recently completed season. And there may be another week of pheasant hunting opportunity on the slate for 2006-2007. Scott Hull, the division’s project leader at the
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By Bill Parker Editor Cheboygan County, Mich. — Ron Girard decided to take a walk on the third day of the 2004 firearms deer season. He never guessed he’d stumble into the middle of a program that aids black bears in northern Lower Michigan. Girard walked into an area and found a hole in the
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Decision unlikely before April By Tim Spielman Associate Editor Washington — It could be several months before a decision is rendered by the Supreme Court, but conservationists nationwide are hoping for results from two wetlands cases recently heard by the high court that won’t compromise the protection of potentially thousands of wetland acres. Some groups
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