A reprieve for some northern pike in Utah Lake
Instead of killing pike, anglers are asked to report, release tagged northerns caught in the lake.
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QDMA 2020 Whitetail Report: record-low yearling buck harvest
National percentage of yearling bucks in the total antlered buck harvest fell to 30%, the lowest ever recorded.
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DEC: Oneida Lake adult walleye population hits million mark
It’s a level that has not been reached since the 1980s.
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From tree-killing infestation arises hope for diverse forest
TWO HARBORS — As the ongoing spruce budworm outbreak turns dense, single-species stands of trees into fire hazards in Lake County and beyond, it gives landowners who clear the dead timber an opportunity to nurture a more diverse forest. More than $1.3 million in Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) funds from the USDA’s Natural Resources
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Forrest Wood, founder of Ranger boats, dies
Forrest Wood, founder of Ranger boats and a founding father of tournament bass fishing, died Jan. 24 at Baxter Regional Medical Center in Mountain Home, Arkansas. He was 87. Wood, who began his working career as a trout guide on Arkansas’ White River, developed one of the first specialized bass tournament boats in 1968, and
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Investigation leads to additional CWD positive deer on Pine County farm
The ongoing chronic wasting disease investigation of farms tied to the Douglas County detection first reported in December 2019 has led to a CWD-confirmed doe on a Pine County farm. The herd in Pine County was being investigated because it provided animals to the Douglas County herd in the past, including the CWD positive doe that initiated the disease investigation.
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U.S. Senate confirms Aurelia Skipwith as director of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
She becomes the first African American to ever serve in the position.
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CWD confirmed for first time in Douglas County
8-year-old white-tailed doe tested positive for chronic wasting disease after its white-tailed buck pen-mate killed it in a small, two-deer, hobbyist herd.
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Number of deer registered during Wisconsin gun hunt tumbles
Overall, preliminary figures show that 160,769 deer were registered during the nine-day gun deer hunt, compared to 213,972 in 2018. Of the deer harvested in the 2019 nine-day season, 75,236 were antlered compared to 105,315 in 2018. The nine-day hunt also provided hunters with 85,533 antlerless deer, a decrease from 108,657 in 2018.
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