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December 18, 2017

Reports of two whooping crane sightings have these birders on a mission

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Two endangered whooping cranes have bird enthusiasts searching all over north Florida for a glimpse of the rare, elusive birds. The Gainesville Sun reports that the Alachua Audubon Society is holding its Christmas Bird Count on Sunday, and that participants are especially looking for the whooping cranes, which are an endangered species

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Swanson Russell promotes 3 in Lincoln, Neb., office

LINCOLN, Neb. — Swanson Russell recently promoted three people in its Lincoln office – Brittany Lentz, Jeff Salem and Neale Stadler – according to a news release by the company. Lentz was promoted to account manager. Since joining the agency as a project manager in 2015, she has excelled on accounts including Humminbird, Tasty Toppings,

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Illinois’ first-season breakdown shows deer harvest ‘hot spots’

Springfield — Numbers from the second weekend of the 2017 shotgun deer season are still being tallied, but an analysis of the first weekend provides an update of deer harvest geography in Illinois. A total of 51,365 deer were taken during the first firearms season. This is 5.67 percent, or 3,087, less than last year’s

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In Wisconsin, Apostle Island blackpowder deer season may return

Madison — The Assembly Committee on Natural Resources and Sporting Heritage on Dec. 6 took the first step toward reinstating a regular muzzleloader deer season on the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore. Committee members heard from eight citizens at a public hearing that day supporting Assembly Bill 626, which would allow the Department of Natural Resources

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Anxious anglers still waiting on ice to cooperate across much of Minnesota

Baudette, Minn. — Minnesotans longing to be on the ice with rod and reel in hand haven’t received, thus far, the cooperation of the weather as they’d hoped. As of earlier this week, it was primarily the far-northern parts of the state that had ice with some semblance of consistency. In much of the southern

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