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Sportsmen Since 1968

March 8, 2007

Free licenses drain Conservation Fund

By Don LehmanContributing Writer Albany – Every year, tens of thousands of senior citizens, military veterans and handicapped sportsmen receive free or discounted hunting, fishing and trapping licenses and stamps from the state. Those freebies deprive the state Conservation Fund of hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue annually, money the fund could desperately use

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Season Dates

March 10: Snow goose season closes (Northeastern and Southeastern zones) March 11: Beaver trapping season closes (portions of western New York) March 15: Beaver trapping season closes (southeastern New York) March 15: Mink and muskrat trapping season closes (southeastern New York) March 15: Otter trapping season closes (portions of southeastern New York) March 15: Pike,

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Conservation Fund top Summit priority

By Don LehmanContributing Writer Albany – The state’s largest conservation organizations banded together late last month to call for legislative changes that would address dwindling revenue to the state Conservation Fund, crack down on poachers and protect the state’s panfish populations. Calling their meetings late last year and earlier this year a ‘summit’ on sportsmen-related

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Pheasants

Joe Albert Staff Writer Last fall, we were pheasant hunting with a friend in the Blue Earth area. After only finding an opossum the first place we walked, we switched it up and hit a windbreak in the middle of a plowed field, and a drainage ditch. Less than an hour later, and well before

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