June 16, 2023

Doe tags available in Pennsylvania when license sales start June 26

Hunting, National Hunting, National News, News, Pennsylvania / Pennsylvania Game Commission Reports

The check will not be in the mail, and neither will a paper application or a twice-stamped pink envelope. Instead, hunters simply will buy their 2023-24 antlerless deer licenses wherever hunting licenses are sold.
The new process for obtaining antlerless licenses, made possible by a new law that took effect earlier this year, will get underway Monday, June 26 at 8 a.m., when antlerless deer licenses will be available alongside general hunting and furtaker licenses, and other licenses, permits and privileges.

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Michigan Natural Resources Commission approves new deer regulations for 2023

Featured, Hunting, Michigan, National Hunting, National News, News / Bill Parker

The Michigan Natural Resources Commission passed several deer hunting regulations at its meeting here on June 8.
Deer hunting regulations are set on a three-year cycle so the new regulations will be in place through the 2025 hunting seasons.
After much discussion and public comment, the NRC approved the state’s recommendations with minimal change; however, one amendment passed by the commission calls for no use of crossbows in the Upper Peninsula during the late archery season.

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Pennsylvania lawmaker wants two game commissioners sacked

Featured, National News, News, Pennsylvania / Tom Venesky

A state legislator is asking Gov. Josh Shapiro to remove two commissioners from the Pennsylvania Game Commission board.
In a letter dated May 23, state Rep. David Maloney, R-Berks, who is the Republican Chairman of the House Game and Fisheries Committee, asked Shapiro to consider removing commissioners Kristen Schnepp-Giger, who is president of the board, and Todd Pride.

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Wolves that nearly died out from inbreeding recovered, now helping a remote island’s ecosystem

Featured, Home Page News, Michigan, Minnesota, National News, Nature Page & Night Sky, News, News / John Flesher / AP Environmental Writer

Gray wolves are thriving at Isle Royale National Park five years after authorities began a last-ditch attempt to prevent the species from dying out on the Lake Superior island chain, scientists said Wednesday.
Meanwhile, the park’s moose population continues a sharp but needed decline. Overpopulation of the lumbering mammals were causing their own starvation as they outstripped available balsam fir trees – their primary food during long, snowbound winters, Michigan Technological University biologists said.

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Ohio’s sandhill crane numbers still rising in third year of count

Featured, National News, Nature Page & Night Sky, News, Ohio / Mike Moore

Observers reported 357 sandhill cranes in Ohio during the volunteer-driven 2023 Midwest Crane Count on Saturday, April 15, according to the Ohio DNR (ODNR) Division of Wildlife. The count was coordinated by the Division of Wildlife, International Crane Foundation, and Ohio Bird Conservation Initiative.
The survey was conducted in 30 pre-selected counties during the crane’s nesting season to monitor Ohio’s growing breeding population of sandhill cranes.

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