August 11, 2014

St. Paul — Minnesota’s governor may not have been home this weekend when about a dozen citizens with signs showed up, but the spokesman for a group determined to restrict trapping on Walk-In Access lands in the state believes Mark Dayton is getting the message. “Our concerns are getting to the governor,” said Kevin Auslund,

Wausau, Wis. — The DNR’s Furbearer Advisory Committee met in June to discuss harvest quotas for different species, but also discussed potential rule changes for the trapping season that are designed to keep the department up to date with “best management practices” for trapping – and to better meet the needs of state trappers. According

This past fall, Butch Kortright had a hunting season he won’t soon forget, capped off with a harvest nearly two decades in the making.

A study of the spread of chronic wasting disease among white-tailed deer in Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania found that infected deer tend to cluster in low-lying open and developed areas.