Positive CWD detection prompts baiting, feeding ban
The one-year-old doe was harvested in Greenwood township and is the first confirmed positive in Vernon County.
November 14, 2017
Toxic algae flourishes despite vast sums spent to prevent it
Pungent, sometimes toxic blobs are fouling waterways from the Great Lakes to Chesapeake Bay.
14-year-old girl shoots Missouri elk 200 miles from closest herd
A herd is being grown in southeast Missouri after elk were reintroduced at Peck Ranch Conservation Area in 2011. But the elk shot recently was 200 miles away from the Peck Ranch herd, between Hallsville and Centralia.
Nearly half-century-old fish caught and released during fish surveys on Lake Superior
The fish caught Nov. 2 had first been tagged in 1981 when it was 27.3 inches during a DNR spawning assessment on Gull Island Shoal of Lake Superior. The same fish was handled again in 2017 during the same spawning assessment and measured 35.5 inches.
A pep talk, and a New York archery buck
Author was ready to surrender, then his
buddy called, convincing him to give it one more try. And it paid off.
Hunters register 145,054 deer through second weekend of season
Preliminary results through the second weekend show that the number of deer registered was up 10 percent from 2016.
Woodchuck hunting season officially a go in Wisconsin
The bill removes groundhogs from the state’s protected species list and calls on the Wisconsin DNR to establish a year-round hunting and trapping season with no bag limits.
For deer-hunting bowhunter, 500-pound bear will do instead
According to Game Commission biologist, it’s the biggest bear that he knows of that was taken in the archery hunt.
