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November 13, 2023

How much will use of rifles during Illinois’ deer season impact participation, harvest?

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How use of single-shot rifles will affect harvest during this year’s Illinois firearms deer season remains the big unknown, as does how it impacted harvest numbers during the October statewide youth hunt.
A month later, DNR has yet to report on the youth harvest. This was the first year rifles were allowed. The regular firearms season, which runs Nov. 17-19, also will allow rifles, the result of a new state law that went into effect Jan. 1. 

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New York hunters have venison donation options

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Want to donate that deer you arrow or shoot this fall to a worthy cause?
Two organizations – Feeding New York State with its 10 regional food banks, along with the Venison Donation Coalition – are working separately with meat processors across the state to ensure donated venison is distributed to needy individuals.

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DEC encourages antlerless deer harvest, safety as New York’s Southern Zone hunters start Nov. 18

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New York’s busiest hunting days are just about here, as the Southern Zone rifle opening day for white-tailed deer is Saturday, Nov. 18. The early days of this season is when more hunters take to the fields and forests of New York’s southern tier than on any other hunting days. 
And in the days leading up to the Southern Zone opener, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has been encouraging hunters to go afield safely, and asking them to help out with deer management – in some areas – by harvesting more antlerless deer. 

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Commercial lake trout report on Lake Michigan scrutinized

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The Wisconsin Natural Resources Board (NRB) heard a report on Lake Michigan lake trout at its Oct. 25 meeting, indicating the population is increasing in some parts of the lake, though it’s still too early to know if a commercial lake trout fishery can be opened.
Lake trout in Lake Michigan declined severely during the 1950s, primarily due to the introduction of sea lamprey through the Saint Lawrence Seaway and over-fishing.

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Trapper in Wisconsin’s Price County catches and releases three wolves

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A Price County trapper in Wisconsin made four wolf catches over the course of 10 days in October on a large dairy farm just east of the small town of Fifield.
Chuck Koshak, of Fifield, actually caught three wolves, two juveniles and one collared adult, but he caught the first wolf, a mostly black pup, a second time 10 days after catching it the first time on Oct. 20.

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Wisconsin’s Northern Forest Zone deer kill is well off ’22

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With archery buck kill declines ranging from 16% to 31% below last year as of Nov. 6, Wisconsin hunters in 12 of the state’s 19 Northern Forest Zone counties will likely see that trend continue when the gun deer season opens Saturday, Nov. 18.
In four of the remaining seven Northern Forest Zone counties, the archery buck kill dropped 5% to 10% during the same time.

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