Question on ballot for 2015 ban Madison – Sportsmen will be asked on April 11 if they support the banning of lead shot and slugs in shotguns for hunting on state land starting in 2015. That advisory question came from Natural Resources Board member Dave Clausen on Jan. 26, following four hours of presentations on […]
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Oshkosh, Wis. – Increased harvest caps and a state record fish helped lure a record number of sturgeon spearers to buy licenses for the 2011 Lake Winnebago system season, which begins Saturday. Ron Grishaber, of Appleton, speared a 212-pounder last year, and DNR sturgeon biologist Ron Bruch said fisheries crews have handled even larger fish
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The zany forecasting of Punxsutawney Phil, the storied Pennsylvania groundhog aside, you can count on hunkering down next to the wood stove for another six weeks of winter. Or you can get outside on the backside of a snowstorm, on one of those glorious winter days when the sky is crystal blue and the sun
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St. Marys, Ohio – Officials have removed a warning not to eat fish from Ohio’s largest inland lake after tests of lake fish showed no signs of a liver toxin. The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency announced the results Feb. 7. Ohio’s DNR collected fish samples in October from Grand Lake St. Marys in western Ohio.
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Cortland and Wyoming, parts of Ontario and Chautauqua counties Albany – A group of bills that will, if approved, allow rifles in additional parts of the Southern Tier for big-game hunting have resurfaced in the state Legislature. The proposals – to allow the use of rifles in Cortland and Wyoming counties as well as parts
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Albany - Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s belt-tightening 2011-12 budget proposal calls for the layoffs of up to 9,800 state workers, but none within the DEC. That news, however, comes with an important qualifier. Cuomo’s draft budget, which will now go through the laborious legislative process which has in the past virtually guaranteed a late adoption of the
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Season Dates Feb. 15: Bobcat hunting season closes (remainder of state) Feb. 15: Beaver trapping season closes (portions of state) Feb. 15: Mink and muskrat trapping season closes (portions of state) Feb. 15: Weasel, opossum, raccoon and fox hunting season closes (statewide, except Long Island) Feb. 15: Bobcat trapping season closes (portions of state) Feb. 15: Raccoon, red fox,
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Western New York Lake Erie and tributaries: It’s tough to find open water in many of the tributaries. If you do, use egg sacs, egg imitations or small jigs tipped with a spike or waxworm and fished under a float. Dunkirk Harbor has some open water at the warmwater discharge of the power plant. Fish
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TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) – After decades of delay, government officials are beginning to crack down on cargo ships that allow foreign invasive species to hitchhike to U.S. waters, where they have turned ecosystems upside down and caused billions of dollars in economic losses. Organisms as large as adult fish and as small as bacteria
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