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Ralph Loos: In this Best Buck Photo Contest, it’s the shot after the shot that really matters

Featured, Hunting, Michigan, Opinion /

Michigan deer hunters invest plenty of target time making sure they don’t miss the shot – yet for our annual Best Buck Contest, it’s the shot after the shot that really matters.

Unlike the treestand feat that requires a solid site eye and a steady trigger finger, this is all about what a hunter does on the ground immediately after a successful hunt. To cut to the chase, the 27th annual Michigan Outdoor News Best Buck Contest officially has launched.

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Sturgeon poachers would face stiffer penalties under Michigan bill

Featured, Fishing, Home Page News, Michigan, National Fishing, National News, Nature Page & Night Sky, News /

Michigan lawmakers are considering tougher penalties for illegally taking or possessing lake sturgeon, a threatened fish commonly targeted by black-market poachers.
State Rep. Cam Cavitt, R-Cheboygan, introduced House Bill 6409 following a summer incident in Muskegon County during which a six-foot lake sturgeon was found harvested and discarded along a road. The poacher was never caught.

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Ralph Loos: Illinois Outdoor News’ Best Buck contest — two decades proving the biggest buck isn’t always the winner

Featured, Hunting, Illinois, Opinion /

I suppose it was inevitable. Give Illinois deer hunters a camera, a big buck and a good reason to create some friendly competition, and eventually somebody is going to turn it into a contest.
Two full decades later, the Illinois Outdoor News Best Buck Contest is still going strong. But here’s the thing I like most about this annual contest: It isn’t really a battle about who shot the biggest buck.

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CWD mail-in kits give Illinois deer hunters a pivotal role

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

Illinois deer hunters are now swinging a bigger sword in the state’s fight against chronic wasting disease, as DNR puts another piece of its revised management plan into action this season.
Introduced two years ago, the plan shifts Illinois toward a more targeted approach to surveillance. That strategy includes free mail-in sampling kits that allow hunters to collect lymph node samples from harvested deer and submit them for testing. The mail-in kit option comes as the disease continues to slowly move into new counties.

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Ralph Loos: Seneca State Game Area project adds public land in Michigan

Featured, Home Page News, Hunting, Michigan, National Hunting, Nature Page & Night Sky, Opinion /

At a time when Michigan hunters are watching public hunting opportunities disappear and private-land access become tougher to find, it’s nice to have a conservation story that actually adds land to the state map.
That’s what is happening in Lenawee County, where Ducks Unlimited, the Michigan DNR, local landowners and private donors have turned an ambitious wetland project into a growing public hunting and wildlife area.

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Ralph Loos: Illinois Outdoor Hall of Fame class has common interest: being useful

Featured, Fishing, Hunting, Illinois, Nature Page & Night Sky, Opinion /

You could make a pretty long list of reasons why people get involved in outdoor conservation. Some love hunting. Some love fishing. Some love birds, bees or trees. Some even love skunks, snapping turtles and opossums.
And some, frankly, just like making themselves useful.

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