Your Daily Wisconsin Outdoor News Update – Jan. 8, 2018
Details on the NWTF Wisconsin Chapter’s annual convention.
January 8, 2018
Your Daily Minnesota Outdoor News Update – Jan. 8, 2018
Minnesota has a new turkey stamp-winning artist.
Hunters steaming into final week of deer season
The state’s deer season wraps up Sunday, and it appears hunters will easily top last year’s harvest total. DNR has released numbers from the first weekend of the late-winter and special CWD seasons, which produced a harvest of 1,714 deer, compared to 2,654 in those same counties in 2016. This year, 15 counties were open to
Arkansas fish farmers allowed to kill Great Lakes cormorants
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Fish farmers in Arkansas now have federal permits that allow them to kill a limited number of double-crested cormorants as the birds flee the ice and snow of the Great Lakes area. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently resumed issuing such permits to operators and employees of fish farms in
Bald eagle sightings increasing along Mississippi River
A lock and dam near Burlington, Iowa, recently saw 491 eagles, up from 156 a week earlier.
Suit to stop federal agency wolf killings in Idaho rejected
BOISE, Idaho— A federal agency doesn’t need to do a new environmental study before being allowed to kill more wolves in Idaho, a federal court judge has ruled. U.S. District Court Judge Edward Lodge last week ruled in favor of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services of Idaho and against Western Watersheds Project and
U.S. senator proposes delisting Mexican gray wolf
A wolf that once roamed parts of the American Southwest and northern Mexico would be removed from the list of federally protected species under legislation proposed by U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake. The Arizona Republican introduced the measure last week. He’s a critic of the Mexican gray wolf recovery plan, calling it a regulatory nightmare for
In Pennsylvania, ice fishing picks up, but with an emphasis on ice over fishing
Even with recent deep freeze, safety should remain paramount for ice anglers.
