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December 11, 2025

George Meyer, Wisconsin conservation legend, passes away at age 78

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Former DNR secretary and Wisconsin Wildlife Federation executive director George Meyer, 78, passed away Wednesday, Dec. 10, in Madison.
Meyer had been a Wisconsin conservation leader for more than 50 years. He worked as a Wisconsin DNR staff attorney from June 1972 through February 1980, then as the DNR’s Division of Enforcement Administrator from 1980 to 1993. Meyer served as the Wisconsin DNR secretary from 1993 to 2001.

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Ohio Sen. Jon Husted pushes important Great Lakes fishing bill

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Sens. Jon Husted (R-Ohio) and Gary Peters’ (D-Mich.) bill, the Great Lakes Fishery Research Reauthorization Act, passed the Senate by unanimous consent on Nov. 19.
The Great Lakes Fishery Research Program expired at the end of September. The Great Lakes Fishery Research Reauthorization Act would reauthorize the program for another five years through FY 2030.

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Pennsylvania hunter killed in a large deer drive

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A 26-year-old Amish man died after being shot by a member of his hunting party in Pennsylvania’s Juniata County Dec. 2 in terrain and weather that made emergency response difficult.
Floyd S. Wengerd, of Guys Mills, Crawford County, was shot during a deer drive involving 24 hunters in Milford Township and died three hours later in a Mifflin County hospital after a harrowing mountain rescue.

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Heavy bears highlight Pennsylvania’s 2025 hunting season

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Although some big bears were taken in the 2025 hunting seasons in Pennsylvania, none showed up at the check station in Quehanna.
On the evening of the opening day of the statewide firearms season, Nov. 22, hunters with bears lined up at the Quehanna check station, however, almost every bear weighed less than 200 pounds.

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Ohio’s seven-day gun season deer harvest almost matches last year’s

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In spite of several Ohio county deer herds being hammered by a fatal viral disease, the state’s white-tail hunters still nailed it.
During Ohio’s seven-day firearms deer hunting season from Dec. 1 through Dec. 7, hunters checked in 85,448 animals. That figure is 1,743 animals shy of 2024’s deer firearms hunting season count of 87,191 animals but is startling just the same after four southeast Ohio counties were hard hit this past summer and autumn due to an outbreak of epizootic hemorrhagic disease (EHD).

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Minnesota deer-poaching case from Douglas County ends with guilty plea

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A poaching case from Minnesota’s Douglas County that included charges of shooting deer at night over bait, illegally taking more than the allowed one buck per year, improper registration of deer, and unlawfully using other people’s tags wrapped up this fall.
Riley McCabe, 32, of Alexandria, pleaded guilty in October to charges of possession of an untagged big-game animal and an overlimit of deer.

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