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May 2, 2025

Michigan anglers see mixed results on trout opener

Despite some trout-harboring streams remaining open to angling all year, Michigan’s official trout season kicked off on April 26. The season began somewhere between a whimper and a bang.
As is often the case, the season had a chilly beginning. Opening morning saw temperatures across the lower tier of Michigan’s best trout-fishing counties hovering in the high 30s. Dawn arrived in Silver City, at the extreme northwestern corner of the Upper Peninsula at the base of the Porcupine Mountains (and in the vicinity of several popular brook-trout streams), with temperatures sitting right at the freezing point.

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Expansion of hunting, fishing opportunities on USFWS lands; and an end to early teal hunt on a Minnesota refuge proposed

In a release issued on Friday, May 2, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that U.S. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum announced 42 new proposed hunting opportunities across more than 87,000 acres within the National Wildlife Refuge System and National Fish Hatchery System. 

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Inside the investigation, seizure and death of Peanut the social media star squirrel

New York environmental workers who came with a warrant looking for Peanut the squirrel found the scampering social media star on a bathtub. His housemate, Fred the raccoon, was in a suitcase in a bedroom closet.
Soon after the Oct. 30 seizure, both animals were euthanized and Peanut became a martyr – held up as a symbol of government overreach by political candidates, including Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance, who invoked Peanut’s name during a rally just days before the presidential election. State and Local officials were inundated with angry messages and even bomb threats.

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Ryan Rothstein: Don’t overlook native shrubs as top-notch deer habitat

In many ways, the serious modern deer hunter has a tremendous knowledge advantage over deer hunters of yesteryear. The advent of social media and the online information sphere have made the culmination of human whitetail-hunting knowledge available at your fingertips.
This has created a generation of deer hunters who are as hardcore as they come, and who are also pretty knowledgeable about deer biology and behavior as a result. But in many ways, the serious modern deer hunter is at a major disadvantage compared with our deer-hunting forefathers. 

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