June 11, 2024

Huge trap shooting championship kicks off in Alexandria, Minnesota

Featured, Home Page News, Minnesota, National News, News / Eric Morken

The Minnesota State High School Clay Target League’s 2024 Trap Shooting Championship is up and running at the Alexandria Shooting Park in west-central Minnesota.
The event, which runs June 10-18 this year and is dubbed the “world’s largest shooting event,” will host more than 8,000 student athletes from more than 350 schools in Minnesota. All league-registered student-athletes are invited to shoot at the championship where they compete against trap shooters from programs of their similar team size. They also shoot against others at their same experience level in novice, junior varsity and varsity divisions.

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Illinois deer hunters can expect change to venison packaging

Hunting, Illinois, News / Staff Report

A bill that changes rules for packaging meat in Illinois is likely to affect what deer hunters see when they pick up their venison at the meat processor after each hunting season. A bit simpler to read, perhaps.

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Taxidermist program led to Indiana’s first CWD discovery

Hunting, Illinois, National Hunting, National News, News / Staff Report

A wildlife effort shared by the National Deer Association and Indiana DNR helped find the first confirmed case of chronic wasting disease in an Indiana deer last month. The Taxidermist Incentive Program pays $10 to Indiana taxidermists for every sample they collect from deer and submit for CWD testing. A participating taxidermist submitted the deer that tested positive in LaGrange County.

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Bill aimed at giving Illinois state park to Potawatomi band stalls

Featured, Fishing, Home Page News, Illinois, National News, Nature Page & Night Sky, News / Catrina Petersen / The Center Square

A statehouse measure would have authorized Illinois to give ownership of Shabbona Lake State Park to the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation, but the bill didn’t advance in the spring legislative session despite lawmakers saying the bill would have righted a historical wrong.
State Rep. Will Guzzardi, D-Chicago, said that in the late 1800s white settlers stole land from Chief Shab-eh-nay’s home reservation in northern Illinois when the chief traveled to visit family in Kansas for a few years.

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Illinois Letters to the Editor: Time for DNR, all hunters to help manage our deer herd

Illinois, Letters, Opinion / Illinois Letters To The Editor

Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the June 14, 2024, edition of Illinois Outdoor News.

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Ralph Loos: Instead of a beauty pageant, solicit votes for Illinois DNR projects

Featured, Illinois, Nature Page & Night Sky, Opinion / Ralph Loos

Illinois has gone ahead and gotten itself into the beauty pageant business, which is what the “I Love My State Park” campaign really sort of is.
According to DNR and the Illinois Conservation Foundation, every dollar donated by me and you to the campaign during the month of June equals one vote. All we have to do is go online, pick our favorite state park, cough up cash and our vote counts. Think of it as a small town pageant. Candidates raise money, asking every neighbor, pew dweller and Dairy Queen loiterer in town for a buck or three. The candidate who raises the most money is crowned queen!

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Go big, or small, on New York’s Canadarago Lake in Otsego County

Lake Profile, Lake Profile, New York / Steve Piatt

Anglers visit Otsego County’s Canadarago Lake for a variety of reasons, both big and small.
Literally.
The big lake, at nearly 2,000 acres, offers up a smorgasbord of sorts when it comes to fish species, ranging from panfish to bass to walleyes all the way up to tiger muskellunge.

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