To protect fish spawning areas, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has begun to close certain portions of a number of Minnesota waters to fishing. The closings are routine and based on local conditions. Closings occur each year as ice-out begins and waters begin to warm. Areas closed to fishing are listed on the …
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This week you’ll learn how not to extricate an invasive critter from your home and about a new Coast Guard regulation that proves Americans are getting fatter. Let Us Spray There’s a squirrel loose inside your house. Do you: A. Call a professional nuisance animal trapper? B. Open all the doors and windows and try
The recreational Hickory shad fishing season for Maryland’s sport anglers has started, offering several weeks of excellent fishing until mid-May. “Now is the perfect time to fish Hickory shad,” said Tom O’Connell, director of the Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Fisheries Service. “Grab your rod, get outside and celebrate the beginning of spring and
The Maryland Natural Resources Police (NRP) have charged nine recreational anglers from Delaware and Texas for illegally fishing in a designated striped bass spawning area in the Choptank River. The charges come just days before the opening of trophy striped bass season on April 16. “The majority of Atlantic striped bass are born and return
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) – Sometime in the next few days, waves of snow geese will fill the sky across parts of North Dakota and western Minnesota as the birds race north toward their arctic breeding grounds. They’re impressive to watch, these seemingly endless skeins, but after more than a decade of intensive hunting pressure
There is no doubt that some of you readers are becoming tired, if not annoyed, by my rants on the topic of habitat preservation. Yet I feel compelled to pour out my heart and try to instill my concerns into my fellow outdoorsmen and women. On a recent evening drive near my home, I was
I just got done collecting beer and pop cans – mostly beer – that the litter-pigs tossed from their car and truck windows during the winter along the rural lanes where I take my daily constitutional. My hike-route for years has covered three familiar miles’ worth of roadside ditches. And just since the first snows
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has fired up a new electric fish barrier on a Chicago-area waterway linking the Great Lakes and Mississippi River watersheds, the latest bid to protect the lakes from an Asian carp onslaught that could harm native species. The $19 million device is slightly upstream
FREMONT, Calif. (AP) – Park rangers in Fremont are trying to control a spring pest – Canada geese. The Contra Costa Times says rangers in the East Bay Regional Park District are using a form of birth control by dipping clutches of eggs in corn oil to suffocate the embryos and then returning them to
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