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August 13, 2026

New pheasant stocking plan in New York is taking shape

Featured, Home Page News, Hunting, National Hunting, National News, New York, News /

A few years ago, the New York Department of Environmental Conservation made some improvements to its pheasant stocking program in an effort to attract more new hunters to the sport and retain existing ones.
Those changes included increasing the number of adult pheasants released for hunting each fall from 30,000 to nearly 50,000 birds, and increasing the number of stocking dates, including late season releases in January. Public response to those changes has overall been positive, DEC officials said, and now the agency is looking at the next step.

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Iowa monitors ‘Great Lakes’ gizzard shad after increases in population

Fishing, Iowa, Nature Page & Night Sky, News /

The Iowa DNR has documented an increase in gizzard shad across the so-called Iowa Great Lakes, including Spirit Lake and the Okoboji chain during recent annual shoreline seining work.
Native to the Little Sioux River drainage to the south, gizzard shad were unknown in the watershed until small numbers were detected over the past few years.

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Ryan Rothstein: Assessing America’s wildlife recovery journey

2 Comments / Discussions, Featured, Home Page News, Hunting, Minnesota, National Hunting, Nature Page & Night Sky, Opinion /

We hunters have a certain fondness for tooting our own horns. Whenever there is criticism of hunting, our response almost universally invokes hunters’ role in recovery of wildlife species and the funding our equipment purchases and license dollars generate for wildlife management.
That’s a valid statement. But that shouldn’t let us off the hook. If we’re honest with ourselves, the recoveries we celebrate really aren’t as spectacular as we like to imagine.

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Another View: The habitat issue and its role in overcrowding public lands

Featured, Home Page News, Hunting, Minnesota, National Hunting, Opinion /

Out-of-state hunting trips are one of my favorite parts of each fall season, but it’s getting harder to find nearby places to travel for Minnesota deer hunters.
I have bowhunted whitetails on public and private land in Missouri, South Dakota, and North Dakota. All three states have now implemented some sort of regulation change to limit opportunities for nonresidents on public land.

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Minnesota’s Mike Anderson gets a huge win at national duck calling competition

Featured, Home Page News, Hunting, Minnesota, National Hunting, National News, News /

After 15 years away from the top, Minnesota’s Mike Anderson is a duck calling champion again.
On July 25, Anderson competed in the 5th annual Delta Waterfowl Grand National Duck Calling Contest in Des Moines, Iowa. Out of about 13 contenders, Anderson walked away with first place. Prior to the competition, though, he wasn’t sure if he would compete.

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Mike Schoonveld: Ankle flies by any other name are still angler enemy

Featured, Fishing, Home Page News, Michigan, National Fishing /

I’m not an entomologist, but I did earn a passing grade in Entomology 101 in college. With more than 5 million insect species in the world, the course didn’t spend much time on any one species.
So most of what I know about insects came the same way I learned fishing, hunting, mowing grass, and grilling hamburgers: on-the-job training. My insect education was mostly practical. If a bug was bothering me, I figured out why, how to avoid it, how to kill it, or how to repel it.

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Steve Piatt: A rare outing where we actually had to fish for our limit of Lake Erie walleyes

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

This was going to be easy.
The hard part – getting on the sometimes-surly Lake Erie – was over. Terry Catlin, of Chemung, N.Y.; my brother-in-law Don Stannard, visiting from Florida; and I were greeted by calm, almost flat conditions on the big lake that’s capable of keeping you shorebound, drinking coffee at Tim Horton’s while watching 5-foot and bigger waves crashing over the breakwall.

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