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April 14, 2025

Youth hunters ready to jump-start New York’s spring gobbler season

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New York’s annual youth turkey hunting weekend is coming up April 26-27, providing the opportunity for junior hunters – those ages 12-15 – to go afield with an experienced adult mentor.
In recent weeks across New York numerous programs have taken place – many involving New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Police Officers – to help prepare young hunters for the special hunt and often partner them with mentors.

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Steve Griffin: Michigan trout anglers get a fresh start on Opening Day

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Michigan trout season offers a real opening, going from no fishing to plenty of it. And, it just gets better and better.
We like fresh starts. The first day of school. Ash Wednesday or its preparatory counterpart in your faith tradition. The first day of big-league baseball, on the heels of the first day of spring. The magic of the deer opener November 15 remains, but not with the aura it had before bowhunting exploded in popularity and special seasons clogged up the fall calendar before and after it.

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Steve Pollick: A rookie’s first prairie burn is a learning experience that impresses

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Prairie fires are serious business.
All you have to do to understand that statement is volunteer to tote and deploy a drip-torch – a heavy metal canister with a thick handle and curly-Q spout, filled with a 60/40 mix of diesel fuel and gasoline. But first be sure to don a Nomex protective suit, a fire-resistant balaclava, a cumbersome, but necessary, helmet with Plexiglas face-shield, and heavy leather boots and gloves. Then you also may shoulder a Fire-Pump – a five-gallon metal canister with shoulder and chest straps and a brass hand-pump on a red hose, all weighing about 42 pounds when topped off with water.

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Wisconsin’s Hunter Nation meeting sees strong turnout to discuss wolf delisting, crane hunt

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More than 100 sportsmen braved a snow and ice storm late Sunday, March 30, to attend a Hunter Nation meeting in Ashland, Wis., where issues ranging from wolf management to so-called “weather warfare” were discussed.
Hunter Nation Wisconsin State Director Chris Vaughn opened the meeting with updates on the group’s advocacy around predator management, particularly its involvement in the ongoing debate over federal wolf delisting in the Great Lakes states.

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Illinois DNR’s Deer Report gives insight into 2024-25 season

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An incredible 30% of deer harvested during 2024-25 firearms seasons were taken with rifles, a 10% increase over 2023-24 – the first season rifle hunting was legal in Illinois.
Meanwhile, crossbows again grabbed a majority of the archery harvest by claiming a 54% share, a slight increase over last year’s 53.5% share. And a fun fact from DNR’s “Summary of the Illinois Deer Season”: Just over 11% of bucks taken this season had antlers 11 points or larger.

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