WI Daily Update: Winner of 2023 Federal Duck Stamp Art Contest originally from Upper Midwest
After two days of competition, Chuck Black of Belgrade, Mont.,
October 3, 2023
Leashed dog tracking organization in New York responds to criticism, prepares for upcoming season
Deer Search, a non-profit, volunteer organization dedicated to helping fellow hunters out by tracking injured big game, is receiving some unjust criticism and the group says it’s time to set the record straight.
Formed in the 1980s in the Empire State, the group worked with the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation to create a Leashed Tracking Dog license. The license authorizes a person to use a properly licensed trained dog to locate dead or wounded deer or bear. Remember that definition.
Maximizing each county’s conservation potential across Iowa
The history of Iowa’s county conservation boards began in 1955, when the 56th General Assembly passed the “County Conservation Law,” which gave voters in each county the opportunity to establish their own county conservation board. By 1956, the first 16 boards were approved, and by 1989, all 99 counties had their own county conservation board.
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Commentary: The most-feared predator of all for whitetails? One study shows it’s humans
As someone whose career was based around wildlife, sometimes a report or a study comes out that makes me shrug with a “no kidding” feeling creeping over me. Recently, Steve Rinella shared such a fact-finder in his MeatEater newsletter.
This one looked for the answer as to what predator was the most likely to stimulate a response in white-tailed deer behavior. In other words, what scared them into altering their habits. Conversational human voices were overwhelmingly the most fear-inducing of the sounds to which the deer were exposed.
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