January 5, 2015

Republic, Mich. — Hannah Dinkins knows how to impress.  And when the 15-year-old showed her classmates at North Dickinson County School a photo of the bruin she downed this season, their jaws dropped.  “I showed all the guys in my grade and the grades above me and they were all jealous,” she said.  Grown men

Reynoldsburg, Ohio — The state has ordered that all deer be killed at a private hunting preserve in Holmes County where chronic wasting disease was discovered earlier this fall. In a letter dated Nov. 26, the Ohio Department of Agriculture informed Daniel Yoder, owner of World Class Whitetails of Ohio in Millersburg, that “all captive

Erie, Pa. — Three Michigan men were cited for poaching steelhead in here in what the Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission characterized as the watershed’s largest-scale bust last fall.  Marius Girnet, 36, Petrea Bita, 72, and Constantine Rascol, 55, all of Detroit, were caught netting 25 steelhead from Walnut Creek’s Manchester Hole, and fined about

Minneapolis (AP) — A group of wolf experts disputed that gray wolves in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan are endangered or that a judge’s ruling will help the region’s population spread to other states. A federal judge on Dec. 19 threw out the Obama administration’s decision to remove wolves in the three states from the endangered