Zinke proposes expanding hunting, fishing at 30 national wildlife refuges
Staff and News Reports
May 22, 2018
More than a third of those refuges are on lands in the Great Lakes region.
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Pennsylvania hunting outfitter fined $30,000 for Lacey Act violations
Staff and News Reports
May 22, 2018
Man admits to illegally transporting whitetail deer across state lines to Kansas.
2018 spring turkey harvest sees steep decline
Ralph Loos
May 21, 2018
Hunters took only 13,500 turkeys during the 2018 spring season, well behind the 2017 harvest of 15,720.
Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin to collaborate on West Nile virus monitoring in ruffed grouse
Staff and News Reports
May 21, 2018
The three states are in the early stages of planning to test samples from grouse this fall, but at this point there is no evidence that the virus is having a population-level impact in the
New York state walleye, crappie records fall on same weekend
Staff and News Reports
May 21, 2018
The 18-plus-pound walleye, caught in the St. Lawrence River, shattered the old mark by more than 1-1/2 pounds.
Monarch butterflies can use all the help they can get
Steve Pollick
May 21, 2018
Public can assist by planting milkweed.
Stillwater angler sets catch-and-release sturgeon record
Minnesota DNR Reports
May 21, 2018
The 73-inch lake sturgeon pulled from the Rainy River bests the previous record by 3 inches.
Cougar kills one mountain biker, injures second near Seattle
Associated Press
May 21, 2018
Rich Beausoleil, the state’s bear and cougar specialist, said it was only the second fatality in the state in the last 94 years.
As elk-caused damages continue to add up, a call to cull in Washington state’s Skagit Valley
Associated Press
May 21, 2018
State to address damages after farmers deem the intrusion of elk on their private property to be illegal.
