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Minnesota Senate bills altered in environment omnibus

After an almost three-hour meeting late last week, the Senate Environment, Climate, and Legacy committee approved S.F. 2077, its omnibus package, sending it to the Senate Finance Committee.  
Unlike the House environment committee, the Senate hammered out bills to be included in the omnibus budget package. Those bills include youth earning bear-hunting preference points earlier, eliminating the shotgun zone, extending crossbow use for all, lowering license fees for disabled vets, a continuous bass season, establishing a foraging task force, and repealing the prohibition of beaver consumption.

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Well designed, actively managed CRP benefits pheasants and more

Smoke plumes on the horizon is evidence that its peak season for annual prescribed fire across Iowa.

Prescribed fire is the most cost-effective way to manage land enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), providing ecological benefits to native plantings which in turn, benefit wildlife, and in particular, pheasants.

“Managing CRP is important in order to maintain quality habitat for pheasants, namely the brood rearing and nesting cover it provides,” said Todd Bogenschutz, upland wildlife biologist for the Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR).

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High water in southern Illinois doesn’t stall Rend Lake spring fishing for long

What is typically is a month of furious crappie and bass fishing for southern Illinois’s largest lake got off to a slow start due to early April rains.
Rend Lake officially crested at 413.67, only slightly below the highest recorded lake elevation of 413.83 way back in 1995.

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Environmentalists seek to conserve Milan Bottoms in Illinois

Jon Duyvejonck, chairman of the 700-member Eagle View Group of the Sierra Club, worked for the Army Corps of Engineers for 12 years, then 25 years for the Moline-based U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as a biologist working on Mississippi River issues. He retired in 2015.
He also is among many citizens working to conserve 538 acres of natural habitat just across Illinois 92 from the Bally’s Quad Cities Casino and Hotel.

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Leave deer, birds, rabbits – and of course, skunks – alone during spring

The Illinois DNR’s annual reminder to leave baby birds and young animals alone as spring settles in across the state also serves as a reminder about a specific animal currently active and showing up in unusual places. But nobody has to warn people to avoid skunks.

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