Here’s a summary of all 27 hunting-related shooting incidents investigated by DEC in 2008. Officials said that in some cases investigations have yet to be completed. Spring turkey hunting € May 1, Columbia County – A hunter fired a shot at a turkey on the opening day of New York’s spring gobbler season, striking the …
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Washington, D.C. – Two members of the Wisconsin federal delegation said they will not support gun-control legislation known as the “Blair Holt bill,” and one state senator said the bill has no chance of passing. Just prior to the press deadline for this issue, Wisconsin Outdoor News contacted the offices of U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin,
Helena, Mont. (AP) – Helena police participating in a program to cull the city’s urban deer population have reached their 150-animal quota with the killing of five mule deer earlier this week. Police Chief Troy McGee said officers trapped seven deer Monday. Two were released and the rest were killed and processed. The meat, like
Cheyenne, Wyo. (AP) – Turkey hunters can expect another good year in the Black Hills and the Laramie Peak area as spring hunting seasons take effect. Joe Sandrini, wildlife biologist for the Wyoming Game and Fish Department, says numbers are running strong again in the Black Hills area. He says productivity has been above average
St. Paul – In what supporters hailed as a “huge first step,” the bill carrying recommendations of the Lessard Outdoor Heritage Council cleared its first Senate hurdle Friday, when members of the Environment and Natural Resources Committee approved unanimously the $69.5 million bill. The bill has a number of other committee stops in the Senate
Chicago – The gargantuan Asian carp likely will have a second electric barrier to Lake Michigan this spring, a move that will mark significant progress in a years-long project dogged by countless delays and criticisms. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers project manager Chuck Shea said barrier IIA is expected to go online around the end
Stevens Point, Wis. – Federal biologists are going to have see at least 500,000 canvasbacks in the spring population estimate in order to offer Midwestern hunters a one-bird bag limit during the 2009 season. Want to see a “two-can” limit? Not unless federal biologists first hit a population estimate of 725,000 canvasbacks on the breeding
Fort Ripley, Minn. – Flood waters may have been retreating in the flood-ravaged Red River Valley near Fargo-Moorhead this week, but members of the Minnesota DNR – among them, about 50 conservation officers – remained ready to assist with anything from resident rescue to levee monitoring. Roger Tietz, DNR Enforcement operations support manager at Camp
Bedford, Va. (AP) – Bedford County authorities say a 71-year-old hunter was killed when his shotgun went off accidentally. Sheriff’s Maj. Ricky Gardner says Elisha Cheek Jr. was groundhog hunting Tuesday morning when he apparently slipped while climbing a fence. His shotgun went off and Cheek was struck in the head. Gardner says Cheek’s wife
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