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Trapping is among the oldest of human skill sets; opportunities abound for newcomers

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

You descend from a long line of trappers. Virtually all of us have ancestors at some point down the line who snared or trapped animals for food, for clothing, or for tools or trade.
Furbearing animals, a category of wildlife under state and federal law, today still provide a litany of opportunity and products. Moreover, trapping is a useful service to wildlife management and public health.

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Birding proves to be good for the American economy

Home Page News, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Nature Page & Night Sky, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin /

Some years back I put up nest boxes in my woodlot for the cavity-nesting birds. White-breasted nuthatches readily took to the boxes for raising broods, and for roosting. 
As our planet makes its autumnal tilt, a whole host of songbirds and raptors head south for warmer climes. But the woods are not vacant. The nuthatches live here year-round sharing the pinyons with mountain chickadee and juniper titmouse.

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Plato, Madonna, and National Hunting and Fishing Day

Minnesota, National News, Nature Page & Night Sky, News /

Sept. 28 marked the 52nd National Hunting and Fishing Day, an annual event first proclaimed by President Richard M. Nixon in 1972. Hunting and fishing and target shooting were then, and remain, lifestyle choices enjoyed by millions of Americans from all walks of life on every rung of the economic ladder.

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Commentary: Creel surveys reveal loads of information for Ohio fisheries

Featured, Fishing, National Fishing, Ohio, Opinion /

It is curious how sounds evoke memories. Cicadas shrilling in the pinyon-juniper woods behind my New Mexico home transport through the decades to another May afternoon and a younger self aboard a 15-foot jon boat, a creel clerk for the Ohio Division of Wildlife.
I would spend days roving over a reservoir, conducting in-person interviews of anglers in boats and on shore, gathering information on what they caught, how far they drove, hours they spent fishing, and how many fish they kept in the creel. Catch rates and preferences were useful baseline and trend data for a sauger and white bass fishery.

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