In Michigan, growing Canada goose population creates challenges
Goose hunting in Michigan helps to keep goose numbers in check, and there are things you can do to help keep geese away from your yard.
June 23, 2017
A good year for hunter safety in Pennsylvania
Low number of hunting-related shooting incidents, no fatalities in 2016.
Summer an important time for scouting whitetails
By Bob Fratzke, with Glenn Helgeland This is only part of the year-round scouting you should be doing, but it is an important part. Whitetails have different habits or patterns – in the spring, coming into summer, once the season begins, within the season, right after the season. Continual scouting is a lot of work,
Silver carp found 9 miles from Lake Michigan
In eight consecutive years of intensive monitoring and fish sampling in the Chicago Area Waterway System, this is the second time a bighead or silver carp has been found above the electric dispersal barriers.
Fly fisherman in Arkansas helps foster kids
The Mayfly Project uses fly fishing as a way to mentor children in foster care. Project has expanded to eight states and includes about 40 mentors.
Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling over gas drilling in forests hailed as ‘landmark’ decision
The 45-page decision could make it more difficult to lease state forests for oil and gas drilling, and it could force governments to be more careful about allowing development that would damage public lands, wildlife, groundwater, rivers and air quality.
Wisconsin DNR seeing cutbacks at state fair, too
Agency won’t send nearly as many representatives to the 11-day event and will no longer oversee Natural Resources Park and its many outdoors offerings.
Wisconsin a step closer to open hunting season on groundhogs
The proposal would remove groundhogs from the Wisconsin’s protected species list and establish a year-round open hunting and trapping season with no bag limits.
