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October 19, 2023

Iowa’s youth pheasant season set for Oct. 21-22

Iowa’s young hunters will get to experience the first cackle and flush of the year during the youth only pheasant season Oct. 21-22.
The residents-only youth season gives Iowans age 15 and younger the opportunity to hunt for rooster pheasants without purchasing a license, habitat fee or taking hunter education. Each youth must hunt under direct supervision of an adult age 18 or older that has a valid hunting license and habitat fee.

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Minnesota DNR moving toward plan for state’s ‘other’ wildlife management areas

Some of the state’s largest wildlife management areas – Whitewater, Mille Lacs, Red Lake, and Lac qui Parle – have been the subject of management plan efforts by DNR officials and others for the past several months. But behind the scenes, the little guys – Dovray (Murray County), Dolven (Stevens), and Dorr (Polk), for example – are getting some love, as well.
Most of Minnesota’s wildlife management areas, some 1,500 of them totaling more than 1.3 million acres (the second-largest public recreation unit in the state behind state forests) largely have been guided by state law and at the discretion of local wildlife managers, for the benefit of wild life. But sans an official plan.

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Time for Wisconsin Natural Resources Board nominees, senators to play wolf trivia?

Who would have thought demonizing wolves is so vital to Wisconsin that state senators would torpedo the Natural Resources Board just so it can’t vote on a wolf-management plan that differs little from the state’s plan for managing black bears?
The Senate’s Committee on Financial Institutions and Sporting Heritage voted 3-2 Sept. 28 to reject four of Gov. Tony Evers’ five NRB nominees. If the full Senate rejects those nominees before the NRB’s Oct. 25 meeting, it would leave three NRB members – Bill Smith, Marcy West and Paul Buhr – without a quorum. They could hold a meeting, but couldn’t take any action.

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Rainy Wisconsin duck opener pays off with trio of drake wood ducks

It was Yogi Berra who coined the phrase, “It’s like deja vu all over again.” That was my thought when I heard the rain on the bedroom window in the dark before the opening of the northern duck season in Wisconsin.
Although it seems like just yesterday, last year’s opener started the same way, making me wonder if rolling over and going back to sleep made more sense than rolling out of bed like I had last year. But there’s another old saying about not being able to teach old dogs new tricks, so again I rolled out instead of rolling over. After all, it was opening day.

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