February 24, 2009

Minnesotans can harvest light geese (including white and blue phase lesser snow geese and Ross’ geese) from March 1 to April 30, under the terms of a federal conservation order. The order, which affects 24 states, allows hunters to harvest the geese after the traditional close of hunting seasons. This is part of an international […]

Oshkosh, Wis. (AP) — The sturgeon spearing season on Lake Winnebago ended Saturday. A total of 1,512 fish were caught during the season that lasted a week on Lake Winnebago and had ended Wednesday on four upriver lakes when harvest caps for those waters were reached. There were 275 sturgeon taken from the upriver lakes;

Geneva (AP) — Campaigners said Monday they have collected enough signatures to force a referendum in Switzerland on whether to confine army weapons to military compounds. Service in the country’s militia army is compulsory for men, and conscripts have to take their guns home between call-ups. “Almost every day a person commits suicide with a

Oshkosh – The 230-pound behemoth lake sturgeon netted by state fish crews in the fall eluded the record 10,239 licensed spearers who took to the ice for the 77th consecutive 2009 Lake Winnebago system sturgeon spearing season. But the separate seasons on the big lake and the Upriver Lakes were still fit for the record

Moravia – The Iowa Department of Natural Resources will host a trophy deer antler measuring seminar from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., on March 14, at the Rathbun Fish Hatchery, near Moravia.  Official scorers for Boone and Crockett, Pope and Young and the DNR wildlife staff and conservation officers will be on hand to score

Stamp funds available to conservation groups and governments for habitat work MADISON – Grant applications to fund habitat work benefitting pheasant, turkey and waterfowl in 2009 and 2010 are due March 23. The grants are available to conservation organizations and governments for developing, managing, preserving, restoring and maintaining habitat for these species. Eligibility information and

Middle River, Md. (AP) — A pair of bald eagles is loving life near the runways of Martin State Airport in Middle River. But it’s not the safest scenario, for pilots or the birds. So the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is evicting them. Biologists plan to remove the nest and the tree limbs that

The Department of Fish and Game (DFG) is hosting the annual meeting on California salmon populations and the outlook for 2009 ocean and river fisheries. The meeting is scheduled March 3rd from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Sonoma County Water Agency building located at 404 Aviation Boulevard in Santa Rosa. The meeting will

Madison – Deadlines are approaching for ice anglers to remove ice fishing shelters from inland and boundary waters. The regulations for removing ice shanties changed last year, and state conservation wardens report the change has resulted in some confusion as to when shanties must be removed from water south of Highway 64. The new law