December 22, 2014

Roscommon, Mich. — Do black bears adjust their movements in response to hunting? That’s one of the questions a graduate student is attempting to answer through research in the Upper Peninsula. Preliminary results indicate the answer is yes, according to Dean Beyer, DNR wildlife research biologist in Marquette who was one of the presenters at

A doe tagged as an 8.6-pound fawn in 2001 in preparation for the launch of the Pennsylvania Game Commission’s new deer management plan surfaced in recent months, alive and well, in the Quehanna Wild Area. Clearfield outfitter Richard Laurent captured the old girl’s picture on a trail camera, zoomed in on the number on her

Madison, Wis. — The Wisconsin Natural Resources Board has adopted an emergency order that reduces lake trout bag limits for sport fishermen in the state’s eastern portion of its Lake Superior waters. At its Dec. 10 meeting, the board approved a bag limit for the 2014-15 season of two lake trout, of which one fish

Two Harbors, Minn. — The elk that Jim Latvala, a Lake Superior charter fishing captain from Two Harbors, killed in Montana was seized after he failed to tag the animal immediately, a sequence of events that was captured by a reality TV show based in Minneapolis. It’s set off controversy in the Big Sky State.