Sturgeon Bay, Wis. – Citizens and DNR employees are learning to deal with cuts within the DNR due to the new state budget. The DNR budget for 2009-10 is $567.0 million, and for 2010-11 it is $567.6 million. This is a decrease of $22.3 million from the 2007-09 biennial budget. The cuts not only include […]
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Slayton, Minn. – For those hunters who stepped into the frosty morning that was the 2009 pheasant hunting opener, it seemed more like late November than mid-October; snow fell over most of southern Minnesota the previous night, and winds gave the cold added teeth. But there was at least one notable exception to a late-season
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Shiocton, Wis. – Describing himself as a “small-town country boy,” Earl Clement, of Shiocton, hit it big-time on Saturday, Sept. 12, opening day of Wisconsin’s 2009 archery deer season. It’s not that the 42-year-old lift truck mechanic had never shot a big buck before. In fact, Clement said he’s tagged 16 Pope and Young bucks
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Columbia Falls, Mont. (AP) – State game wardens are looking for a poacher who shot a 6-point bull elk and left the animal to waste in the Blankenship Bridge area north of Columbia Falls last week. The big elk was found by an archery hunter, who called Montana wildlife officials about the incident. The elk
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Helena, Mont. (AP) – As many as 85 bighorn sheep could be shipped from Montana to Utah and Washington under a proposal endorsed by the Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commission. The sheep would come from three areas, including the Sun River on the Rocky Mountain Front and from hunting districts near Deer Lodge. Under
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Albany – DEC’s updated 10-year pheasant plan would extend pheasant hunting seasons in many areas, reduce the cockbird-only area and eliminate the Young Pheasant Release Program after 2010. Those recommendations, contained in a draft report available on DEC’s Web site (www.dec.ny.gov/animals/7273.html), are now subject to public comment through Nov. 13. The update of DEC’s 10-year
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Orangeburg, S.C. (AP) – A South Carolina man has been sentenced in the shooting death of a teenager killed while hunting in the woods. The Times and Democrat of Orangeburg reported Wednesday that 53-year-old Dennis Hall of Rowesville pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and was sentenced to four years in prison. Sixteen-year-old Joshua Gainey died
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