Iowa’s statewide fishing report on Feb. 13, 2025
Here’s a look at the Iowa fishing report from across the state on Feb. 13, 2025.
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February 13, 2025
Longtime Duluth-area conservation officer named Minnesota’s 2024 CO of the Year
In recognition of his outstanding overall career performance, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources Conservation Officer Andy Schmidt has been named the 2024 Conservation Officer of the Year. DNR Enforcement Division Director Col. Rodmen Smith presented awards to Schmidt and four other officers Feb. 12 as part of an annual award celebration at Camp Ripley.
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Crossbows, junior hunting highlight priorities as sportsmen’s group meets with New York lawmakers
On Wednesday, Feb. 5, the New York Sportsmen’s Advisory Council and Congressional Sportsman’s Foundation hosted their annual breakfast, an event that pairs members of the state legislature with numerous stakeholders in the outdoor community.
Over two dozen members of the State Senate and Assembly attended the breakfast, which was held at the Empire State Plaza and Capitol, in Albany.
New York’s statewide fishing and hunting report on Feb. 13, 2025
Snow a factor on many lakes and ponds. Here’s a look at the New York fishing and hunting report on Feb. 13, 2025.
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Steve Pollick: A surprise mink sighting joins a chorus of wildlife on the Ohio homestead this winter
As I write this, the coming of the full Moon of February, known to some Native American tribes as the Hunger Moon for this deep-winter season of want, is just a few days away and it has predators afoot and aloft searching for prey meals.
Red fox and coyotes, the latter including a whopper-size male that must go 50 pounds, have been tripping my trail cam shutters in Froggy Bottom with seasonal regularity. Great horned owls sound off about 3 or 4 a.m. nightly, these flying tigers swooping the bottom silently, ready to sink deadly talons into a nocturnally browsing bunny.
DNR suspects bird flu in recent Lower Michigan waterfowl die-offs
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources has recently sampled dead wild birds suspected to be positive for highly pathogenic avian influenza at multiple locations across Lower Michigan. The DNR’s ongoing disease surveillance indicates that HPAI is widespread in wild bird populations throughout the state.
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Michigan DNR seeking public’s help with northern Lower Peninsula wolf survey
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources Wildlife Division is seeking the public’s help in conducting a community-based northern Lower Peninsula survey to detect any potential presence of gray wolves.
The survey, which will rely heavily on reports from the public of wolf sightings and other potential evidence, will take place from Feb. 17 through March 10.
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Steve Griffin: Michigan’s big, burly, Saginaw Bay replete with walleyes
What irony! I love just about everything about my neighbor, big, burly Saginaw Bay. But I’m not the person you’re most likely to see on that lobe of Lake Huron.
A few Fridays ago a friend and I paused at mid-day at the end of Linwood Road, just east of the village that proclaims itself Michigan’s Walleye Capital, and guessed the number of vehicles parked at 400 to 500.
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Minnesota DNR’s CWD culling footprint is smaller this year
Looking to mid-February and March, the Minnesota DNR, in coordination with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, will begin its winter deer-culling efforts in metro-Deer Permit Area 605, the Grand Rapids area, and in Crow Wing County – locations where whitetails have tested positive for chronic wasting disease.
This season’s culling effort looks different compared with previous years, when much time and effort was spent working in the southeastern corner of the state.
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