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December 12, 2023

Christine Thomas: A great 2023 deer season is a wrap

Featured, Hunting, National Hunting, Nature Page & Night Sky, Wisconsin /

For reasons that I do not know, and that do not matter to this narrative, my husband, Stan, had arranged to meet a client at the Arnott Milling Company in Arnott. I was waiting in the Suburban, undoubtedly scanning my iPad, when I was startled by a guy who was motioning for me to roll down my window. Arnott seems like a pretty safe place, so I did.
“Did anyone shoot Indy?” he asked.

Christine Thomas: A great 2023 deer season is a wrap Read More »

For Minnesota’s Fred Bengtson, four decades with the DNR was an extension of a lifetime with wildlife

Featured, Hunting, Minnesota, National News, Nature Page & Night Sky, News /

Fred Bengtson left his job without even the rumor of fanfare.
He didn’t give a farewell speech to his staff, or emote on social media. A party? No chance.
After nearly 40 years working for the Minnesota DNR, the last 21 as area wildlife manager in Sauk Rapids in Benton County, Bengtson did it his way. He just retired.

For Minnesota’s Fred Bengtson, four decades with the DNR was an extension of a lifetime with wildlife Read More »

How much deer disease can society tolerate? Wildlife managers weigh effects, results of culling

Featured, Home Page News, Hunting, Michigan, National Hunting, Opinion /

Culls in one form or another are how we produced domestic animals and many crop varieties (selective breeding is a form of culling).
It’s been used to change antler qualities behind fences and tried as a method to change antler qualities in free-ranging deer (doesn’t work). Many hunting regulations (e.g., enhanced doe harvest) are just culling programs aimed at changing buck-to-doe ratios.

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