May 23, 2025

New visitor center highlights 50th anniversary of Minnesota’s Voyageurs National Park

Featured, Fishing, Home Page News, Minnesota, National Fishing, National News, Nature Page & Night Sky, News / Tori McCormick

It’s going to be a celebratory summer at Voyageurs National Park – Minnesota’s only national park – in International Falls.
As federal park officials gear up to celebrate the VNP’s 50th anniversary, a new chapter in its history is being written. The Crane Lake Visitor Center, which has been in the works for several years, is opening at the end of May and will have a grand opening event June 6.

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Southwest Ohio club hosts hunter education appreciation day

Featured, Hunting, National Hunting, National News, News, Ohio / Celeste Baumgartner

The Ohio DNR Division of Wildlife recently held a Hunter Education Appreciation Day at the Southern Ohio Dog and Game Protective Association.
It was the first one in several years but event organizers are hoping to make it an annual event again. Hunter and trapper education instructors got the latest news plus an opportunity to hobnob and have some fun. Matt Ortman, hunter education coordinator for the Division of Wildlife, said there are 700 hunter and 250 trapper education instructors in the state.

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Genesee River rambling in Pennsylvania’s Northern Tier, where the reward is the fiery brook trout

Featured, Features, Fishing, Fishing, Home Page News, National Fishing, New York, Pennsylvania / Vic Attardo

I had come down from southern New York into the northern border area of Pennsylvania, following the Genesee River, but going against the current.
I was now upstream in the land with the strange and little known Triple Divide, a place where the drainage of the area flows in three directions each with a far distant destination – the Gulf of Mexico via the Allegheny River; mid-Atlantic Ocean via the Susquehanna River and the Saint Lawrence River and north Atlantic via the Genesee River and Lake Ontario.

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Kayaking for carp is the kind of adventure that’s habit forming

Featured, Features, Fishing, Home Page News, National Fishing, Pennsylvania / Freddie McKnight

Sitting in the kayak and just allowing the current to carry me on this fine afternoon, I was hoping my mesmerizing moment would be interrupted by something on the other end of my line. Typical of the summer action on this stream, it had been slow.
The normal catches of smallmouth bass, fallfish, rock bass and even bluegills were far and few between. When the small crayfish jig hit the water on my next cast, things went way different in a hurry.

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DEC webinar updates New York waterfowl hunters on multiple topics

Featured, Home Page News, Hunting, National Hunting, National News, New York, News / Bill Hilts Jr.

Thanks to a recent New York Department of Environmental Conservation-hosted Status of Waterfowl and Wetland Management webinar in April, duck and goose enthusiasts are up to speed as far as season dates, daily limits, survey updates, and population estimates heading into 2025.
The electronic session saw over 110 people in attendance and over 100 questions were asked by interested attendees.

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