Iowa’s statewide fishing report on March 13, 2025
Here’s a look at the Iowa fishing report from across the state on March 13, 2025.
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March 13, 2025
North Dakota Fishing Report – March 13, 2025 – video
Checking in with a a drive-by at the local ramps to show how the accesses are holding up and what the bite is like.
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New York’s statewide fishing and hunting report on March 13, 2025
Spring is on the horizon and the fishing that comes with it. Here’s a look at the New York fishing and hunting report on March 13, 2025.
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First cougar cubs verified in Michigan in more than a century
The Michigan DNR announced on Thursday that for the first time in more than 100 years, cougar cubs have been discovered living in the Michigan wild.
State biologists on Wednesday confirmed the existence of two cougar cubs on private land in Ontonagon County in the western Upper Peninsula. The spotted cubs, believed to be 7 to 9 weeks old, were verified from photos of the cubs taken March 6 by a local resident.
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Michigan DNR reports Washtenaw County’s first CWD-positive wild deer
Washtenaw is now the 15th Michigan county where chronic wasting disease has been identified in the wild deer population, according to the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. An adult buck found acting ill in Salem Township recently tested positive for CWD.
The Michigan State University Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, which works with the DNR to identify CWD in Michigan’s wild deer herd, confirmed the CWD finding. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Veterinary Services Laboratory, in Ames, Iowa, also confirmed the test result.
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North Dakota hatcheries help drive the state’s fisheries
Years ago in grade school we took a field trip to Valley City National Fish Hatchery. Even now, I don’t think I fully appreciated what was right in our own backyard. I know back then I certainly didn’t.
What I did know is that I loved to fish. I was fascinated by the hatchery setting along the Sheyenne River downstream from Lake Ashtabula and Baldhill Dam. We peeked behind the scenes of biologists and fisheries managers working to grow the next population of pike, walleye and perch for North Dakota.
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Monarch butterflies wintering in Mexico rebound in 2025
The number of monarch butterflies wintering in the mountains west of Mexico City rebounded this year, doubling the area they covered in 2024 despite the stresses of climate change and habitat loss, experts said Thursday.
The annual butterfly count doesn’t calculate the individual number of butterflies, but rather the number of acres they cover as they gather on tree branches in the mountain pine and fir forests. Monarchs from east of the Rocky Mountains in the United States and Canada overwinter there.
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DNR sets walleye regulations for the 2025 open-water season on Minnesota’s Lake Mille Lacs
The Minnesota DNR announced on Thursday that anglers on Lake Mille Lacs will be able to harvest two walleye daily during the upcoming open water season, which begins on May 10 and continues through Nov. 30.
Harvested walleye must be 17 inches or greater, and only one of them can be over 20 inches. This summer’s two-walleye limit comes after a February Mille Lacs Fisheries Advisory Committee meeting where most members told the DNR they favored a three-fish limit at the start of the open-water season. Last year’s open-water season on Mille Lacs started as catch-and-release only before anglers were allowed to keep two walleyes starting in mid-August.
Lawmakers urge Trump administration to cancel owl-killing plan, say it would cost too much
A bipartisan group of lawmakers this week urged the Trump administration to scrap plans to kill more than 450,000 invasive barred owls in West Coast forests as part of efforts to stop the birds from crowding out a smaller type of owl that’s facing potential extinction.
The 19 lawmakers — led by Republican Rep. Troy Nehls, a Texas conservative, and Democrat Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove, a California liberal — claimed the killings would be “grossly expensive” and cost $3,000 per bird.
