Archery deer season extended for 3 urban Michigan counties
New policy could help cities resolve urban deer conflicts in the heavily populated region.
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State attorneys: Wall off Great Lakes to stop carp
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Attorneys general from three states say a $275 million federal plan for keeping Asian carp from migrating into the Great Lakes is too pricey and rejects the most effective solution. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is recommending technologies such as electric barriers and water cannons at the Brandon Road Lock
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Too dry for a South Dakota waterfowl hunt? No worries – youth pheasant hunt saves the day
Despite the change in plans because of those dry conditions, hunt reportedly an unqualified success.
Walker signs bill lifting Wisconsin mining moratorium
MADISON, Wis. — Gov. Scott Walker signed a bill Monday lifting Wisconsin’s moratorium on gold and silver mining, reversing his vote from nearly 20 years ago imposing the ban and brushing aside conservationists’ warnings that the measure will lead to devastating pollution. The governor signed the GOP-authored bill during a mid-day stop at the Oneida
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2 wolves monitored by wildlife officials found shot dead
COLVILLE, Wash. — Officials say two wolves that were being monitored have been found shot dead in eastern Washington. The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife discovered one of the two female wolves in Stevens County through a collar that stopped working in November. She was found dead in an area the monitor showed was
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Reports of snowy owl sightings up in Rhode Island
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A Rhode Island wildlife preservation group says the state has had more snowy owls sightings than usual this time of year, a sign that more of the birds may be making their way down from the Arctic. Lauren Parmelee, of the Audubon Society of Rhode Island, tells Rhode Island Public Radio that
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Teenager kills mountain lion while hunting in western Iowa
The animals are uncommon in Iowa, but they are not listed as a furbearer and have no protected status in the state.
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In Oregon, red-suited man on a sled rescues a deer on frozen pond
SALEM, Ore. — Reindeer are supposed to pull Santa’s sleigh, but in Oregon, a red-suited man on a sled wound up pushing a deer in one of several deer-ice rescues being reported across the country of late. The reverse-reality Christmas-season tale played out when a deer wandered onto a frozen golf course pond in Sunriver,
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Montana investigators trace origin of illegally introduced walleye
KALISPELL, Mont. — Wildlife investigators have used a kind of biological fingerprinting to unravel the origin of a pair of walleye illegally introduced in a northwestern Montana lake. The Flathead Beacon reports that Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks biologists analyzed tiny bones from the two fishes’ inner ears. Those bones contain details of the water
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