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September 14, 2024

Research reveals extent of new challenges for waterfowlers as migration patterns evolve

Every autumn’s Grand Passage is different.
That’s the nature of waterfowl migrations. Seasoned duck and goose hunters in every flyway – Pacific, Central, Mississippi, and Atlantic – know this well.
Some years, waterfowlers see lots of birds at roughly the same time and at roughly the same places, and the next year it could be completely different. Change is the constant.
“Year-over-year, migrations are fickle,” said a waterfowl biologist from the South. “But there’s more to the story.”

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Michigan’s Mike Kelly is the champion the Saginaw Bay watershed needs

The 7,000 miles of rivers that flow through the 8,700 square miles of the Saginaw Bay watershed have a long history of ecological calamity.
Dioxins in the Tittabawassee River, PFAS in the Shiawassee River, and agricultural contamination of the Cass and Flint rivers are only a few of the unintended consequences of industrialization that have plagued the watershed during the past century. Fish living within this ecologically tormented watershed need a champion – someone who tirelessly advocates for the restoration of their habitat and defends against future threats.

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Free fishing lure library appears in Wisconsin’s Hayward area

When Wisconsin high school senior Ethan Constantine approached Max Wolter, the DNR’s Sawyer County’s fish biologist, about ideas for an Eagle Scout project, the two put their heads together and came up with a unique idea.
“We developed an idea for ‘Lure Libraries,’” Wolter said. “The concept is like the now-popular ‘Little Free Libraries’ that are in many small towns. I’d seen them for fly fishing, but not for traditional tackle. Ethan came up with the design and built three of them as part of his Eagle Scout project.”

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Preparing for a succesfull bowhunting season goes beyond target practice

I consider myself a graduate of the “University of Hard Knocks, and after logging more than 40 years of bowhunting experiences, I believe I have earned a master’s degree for opening-day regrets! 
I would love to survey 1,000 bowhunters exiting Pennsylvania’s woods at the end of the opening day on Saturday, Oct. 5, to inquire about their mishaps. I bet their stories would align with mine, and the root cause of most of their woes would be due to insufficient, preseason preparation.

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Perch spreaders losing ground to homemade perch ‘rigs’

More than 60 years ago when I began perch fishing with my dad and grandfather, the standard operating procedure was to use a wire spreader with two snelled hooks, each baited with an emerald shiner.
Each arm of the “perch spreader” at that time had a small nickel-finish blade at the end and the pre-tied, long-shank snelled hooks would also usually have a shiny spinner blade and red bead at the eye of the hook as an added attractant.

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Oldest conservation group in New York gets new leadership

The oldest conservation organization in New York has been under the same leadership for more than a decade, but that is changing.
Chuck Parker, who has guided the New York State Conservation Council as president since 2013, is passing the torch to First Vice President Dr. Keith Tidball. The change was made at the council’s recent Fall Convention held in Rome.

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Wisconsin’s regulation of wake boats up to local government for now

The Wisconsin Natural Resources Board (NRB) received a long-awaited summary of rules involving wake boats at its Aug. 14 meeting, but for now the best way to regulate wake boat use seems to be through the passage of local ordinances by town or county boards.
Michelle Nault, DNR lakes and rivers section manager, and Darren Kuhn, DNR boating law administrator, reviewed what laws the DNR can enforce, revealing a gap for what restraints are needed.

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