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July 4, 2024

Three Ohio State University pistol shooters ready to compete in Paris Olympics

Featured, Home Page News, National News, News, Ohio /

Three student athletes from the national championship Ohio State University Pistol Team will be representing the United States at the 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris.
Henry Leverett will compete in the men’s 25m rapid fire pistol. Katelyn Abeln has qualified in two events, the women’s 10m air pistol and 25m sport pistol. Ada Korkhin will represent the USA in the 25m women’s sport pistol.
There are 15 shooting events in this year’s Olympics with athletes competing in rifle, pistol, and shotgun disciplines. The United States has won by far the most Olympic medals in the sport, winning 116 medals, including 57 gold.

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Commentary: Creel surveys reveal loads of information for Ohio fisheries

Featured, Fishing, National Fishing, Ohio, Opinion /

It is curious how sounds evoke memories. Cicadas shrilling in the pinyon-juniper woods behind my New Mexico home transport through the decades to another May afternoon and a younger self aboard a 15-foot jon boat, a creel clerk for the Ohio Division of Wildlife.
I would spend days roving over a reservoir, conducting in-person interviews of anglers in boats and on shore, gathering information on what they caught, how far they drove, hours they spent fishing, and how many fish they kept in the creel. Catch rates and preferences were useful baseline and trend data for a sauger and white bass fishery.

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Outdoor Observations: Who should be considered a “nonresident” when it comes to Michigan hunting, fishing licenses?

Featured, Fishing, Hunting, Michigan, Opinion /

My friend, Mark, lived and worked in Michigan most of his life. He owned multiple homes here, and back in the 1990s he bought a piece of property in Kaleva that he converted into a deer-hunting camp.
Upon retirement, as many retirees do, Mark found himself wintering in Florida. He maintains a home and the hunting property here in Michigan but changed his official residence to Florida. That created a conundrum.

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Jefferson County judge’s navigable water ruling faces likely appeal from Wisconsin DNR

Featured, Fishing, Home Page News, Hunting, National Fishing, National Hunting, National News, News, Wisconsin /

A Jefferson County judge’s recent ruling that forbids boaters, anglers and other water-borne recreationists from entering flooded private lands can’t be enforced outside the county and faces a likely appeal by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR).
That’s the opinion of former DNR Secretary George Meyer, who was a water-regulations attorney throughout his three decades with the agency, including his 1993 through 2002 stint as agency head. The DNR won’t comment on Circuit Judge Bennett J. Brantmeier’s June 24 ruling that restricts public access to navigable waters over private land, but Meyer said the agency is reviewing the case.

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Notes off a soiled cuff: Will the recent consistent high heat negatively impact Pennsylvania brook trout?

Featured, Fishing, Home Page News, Hunting, Opinion, Pennsylvania /

The week before this issue went to press included six consecutive days with high temperatures exceeding 90 degrees in the central part of Pennsylvania. Can’t help but wonder how the prolonged heat affects our thermally fragile wild brook trout streams.
A Fish & Boat Commission biologist we consulted with suggested that the wet spring and higher water levels may be protective, for now, but if the weather stays scorching, it will be bad news for brookies.

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Streams of Thought: A level-headed discussion about wolves

Featured, Home Page News, Hunting, Minnesota, Opinion /

It was likely in 1999 that I first wrote about gray wolves in Minnesota. Numerical goals regarding wolf populations in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan had been reached, and talk was of removing wolves from the federal endangered species list. They were, most wildlife officials proclaimed, “recovered” where they roamed.
It was from my entry into the long-running wolf saga some two and a half decades ago that I became all too familiar with terms such as “distinct population segment” and “delisting,” and became intimately aware of documents such as state management and wolf-recovery plans.

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New York DEC expands sponsored pheasant hunt program

Featured, Hunting, National Hunting, National News, New York, News /

A little more than a year after the avian flu devastated the Richard E. Reynolds Game Farm – the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s sole pheasant raising facility – the agency is eager to get the word out about its expanding sponsored hunts program.
DEC’s sponsored hunts are free, non-competitive events coordinated by groups, clubs, individuals, or organizations to benefit youth, women, first-time hunters, veterans and people with disabilities.

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Collaboration key to Sanborn Lake Wildlife Management Area addition in southeastern Minnesota

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

Ducks Unlimited last Saturday hosted a dedication ceremony for Sanborn Lake Wildlife Management Area on a sunny and breezy morning. Sanborn Lake is located just north of Montgomery in southeastern Minnesota.
The 361-acre shallow lake has historically hosted resident and migrating waterfowl, particularly diving ducks. The lake’s average depth is between 2 and 3 feet with a maximum depth of 3.5 feet. The lake has historically seen heavy waterfowl hunting use and lies in an area with many other shallow lakes.

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