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December 14, 2024

New York Reader Stories: Too cold for geese to fly? Time to deer hunt

Featured, Features, Hunting, National Hunting, New York /

It was so cold, the geese would not fly.
My hunting partner, Steve, and I had been in our ground blinds since first light, waiting for the resident Canada geese to leave the pond and head to the cornfield where we lay. After a couple of hours at 7 degrees, we could not feel our feet or our fingers, and we had not heard a single honk. We decided that the geese were smarter than we and were not going to expend any unnecessary energy on a morning that cold.

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Illinois Natural History Survey water quality technician keeps eye on zooplankton, fish

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Rachel Prostko is a water quality technician at the Illinois Natural History Survey. With an undergraduate degree in marine biology, biology, and history from the University of Miami, her journey includes research internships at Dolphins Plus in Key Largo, the St. Louis Zoo, and the Brookfield Zoo, where she honed her skills in animal behavior and conservation studies.

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When is fur at its prime? Here’s a guide for Illinois, other Midwestern states

Featured, Features, Home Page News, Hunting, Illinois, National Hunting /

I started the trapping season on Nov. 10 in a deer camp in western Illinois. I start every season there because I have to get out before the start of the deer gun season. I get to trap, fish, and hunt because the owners give me the run of the place if I control the raccoon, muskrat, beaver and otter populations on the six ponds the property holds.

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There’s beauty in December flushes of ruffed grouse

Featured, Features, Home Page News, Hunting, Minnesota, National Hunting /

There’s much focus on October ruffed grouse hunting, which makes sense. The season is just kicking off, the woods are pleasant, and the birds are scattered across the cover in a fairly even distribution. That’s the rose-colored view, anyway.
You might also have to contend with an insane number of ticks, some heat, and, while the flushes might be consistent, the shot opportunities can be hard to come by due to the foliage.

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