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April 25, 2025

98 turkeys ‘tagged’ for Phase II of Wisconsin study

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The second stage of a two-year GPS tracking study in Wisconsin designed to gain insights into hen turkey nesting behavior and movements, while also measure poult survival, is off to a strong start.
“With better weather conditions, we were able to trap and tag more birds (early this year),” said Chris Pollentier, a Wisconsin DNR upland research scientist.
A review of last year’s results led the researchers to make only minor tweaks in the methodology and technology employed for this next phase.

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Columbus archers win all three NASP age divisions in Wisconsin state tourney

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When every quiver had been emptied, the Columbus School District’s elementary, middle, and high school teams all earned first-place finishes, sweeping all levels of the 2025 Wisconsin National Archery in the Schools Program (NASP) State Archery Tournament in Wisconsin Dells March 28-29. 

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Doe harvested in western Minnesota aged at 16-1⁄2; how rare is such a deer?

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Every year that a wild white-tailed deer lives in Minnesota likely means it survived a few close calls.
There’s the threat of a tough winter, as well as encounters with predators, vehicles, and hunters. There might be changes in habitat, along with other curveballs that nature might throw at wildlife. For a whitetail to live well beyond a decade, what obstacles must it have overcome? That’s the first thing that came to mind for Alexandria’s Sam Schmid after he received aging results from a doe he shot with his bow last year. It was determined to be 161⁄2 years old.

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For young Pennsylvania fly-tying phenom, it’s fish, fish, fish

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Karrie and Doug Sampsel had little idea that the $40 fly-tying kit they gave their son, Landis, for Christmas when he was 10 would ignite a passion.
“He’s always been a fisherman, and so when we saw the kit we thought, ‘let’s see if we can get him into fly-tying,’” recalled Karrie, of Pleasant Gap, Centre County, Pa. “We gave him the kit and his interest took off.”
Now 14, Landis is making a name for himself in local fly-angling circles with his subsurface and dry flies.

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Good turkey season expected in many parts of New York

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New York’s annual spring turkey hunting season is once again May 1-31 and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation is confident that hunters in many areas of the state can expect some gobbler action this May.
“Turkey populations appear stable across most of the state, and the Catskill region and St. Lawrence River Valley remain good choices to find huntable flocks,” DEC spokesman Jeff Wernick said.

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Tom Venesky: Selective science drives recent Pennsylvania Game Commission board votes

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One of the pillars of the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation is to base wildlife management decisions on scientific data.
The Pennsylvania Game Commission, along with many state wildlife agencies, operate according to the model. But recently, the agency’s board of commissioners strayed from one of the foundational pillars that defines the concept.

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Commentary: Bureaucratic cooperation needed to solve conservation shortfalls

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Bureaucracies, by design, resist change.
They aren’t open to new ideas. Max Weber described it this way: “The fully developed bureaucratic apparatus compares with other organizations exactly as does the machine with the non-mechanical modes of production.” In other words, like a machine, bureaucracies are rationally designed but once built operate only as intended.

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