August 11, 2023

Increasing bear numbers in both peninsulas reason for optimism heading into Michigan’s 2023 hunting season

Featured, Hunting, Michigan, National Hunting, National News, News / Victor Skinner

Michigan wildlife managers and experienced hunters aren’t expecting big changes for the 2023 bear hunting season that starts next month, though they believe a relatively dry spring and other factors like oak wilt and wolves could affect hunter success in some areas.
Cody Norton, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources’ bear specialist, believes strong bear numbers in both peninsulas, coupled with increasing hunter success rates and a high number of bear sightings point to a 2023 season similar to last year, when the statewide harvest of just over 1,900 bears came in 12% over the 10-year average.

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Walleyes feeding on walleyes? It happens sometimes

Featured, Fishing, Fishing, Home Page News, National Fishing, National News, Nature Page & Night Sky, News, News, Ohio, Pennsylvania / Jeff Frischkorn

Cannibalism is a very real deal in the animal world. Grizzly bear boars have no compunction about eating any cubs they might happen to steal away from an overpowered sow.
So, it seems, neither do walleyes. Reports of Lake Erie’s abundant large walleyes devouring their even more profuse smaller relations are trickling in, particularly in Ohio’s far share of the Central Basin. Then again, these same walleyes have cast their glassy stares at their close cousins, the yellow perch.

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Kayakers help catch alligator from Pennsylvania river after long search

Featured, Home Page News, National News, Nature Page & Night Sky, News, Pennsylvania / Deborah Weisberg

Wildlife watchers have welcomed a bunch of species to the Kiskiminetas River in Armstrong County, Pa., as it rebounds from industrial pollution.
But a 4-foot alligator? Uh, no. Yet kayakers on a recent Saturday afternoon sojourn say that’s exactly what they encountered, and they snapped a photo as proof.
“We were floating down the river and a group of eight ahead us yelled “Alligator!” recalled Jim Cibik, of Kiski Township, who was with his wife, Joli, and two friends and their kids. “I thought they were joking at first, but when we got to that spot, there it was, sunning itself on some rocks.”

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Meet new Outdoor News columnist Ryan Rothstein, a deer addict in every sense

Featured, Features, Hunting, Minnesota, National Hunting / Ryan Rothstein

Since I’ve never been one to beat around the bush, allow me to introduce myself: I’m Ryan Rothstein, and I’m a deer hunter.
I was born and raised in central Minnesota, and I’ve been obsessed with deer since I could walk and talk. I can still remember impatiently waiting around my grandparents’ house all day on firearms deer opener for the hunting party to get back so I could see what they’d harvested. I’ve always struggled with being forced to wait for things.

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