DEC looks to remove lake sturgeon from threatened list in New York no later than 2024
Staff and News Reports
April 13, 2018
Agency’s final lake sturgeon recovery plan to help guide recovery efforts for next decade.
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Boom time on central Wisconsin’s grasslands
Associated Press
April 13, 2018
On Saturday, April 14, the area will be front and center for the second annual Wisconsin Prairie Chicken Festival.
Deadly disease spreads to more North Dakota bighorn herds
Associated Press
April 13, 2018
State wildlife officials are still confident that this year’s fall hunting season will be held, though possibly with fewer licenses.
Remembering a day with one of the greats in outdoors writing: Pat McManus – 1933-2018
Rob Drieslein
April 13, 2018
With his dry wit, crazy cast of literary characters, and love of rural places, Pat McManus drew comparisons to Mark Twain and other American humorists.
Indiana turns to Michigan for brown trout restocking effort
Associated Press
April 13, 2018
Indiana officials say that cooperative arrangement helped save the Hoosier state’s annual brown trout restocking in and along the state’s Lake Michigan shoreline.
Lake Michigan salmon fishing is looking up for a change
Cory Yarmuth
April 13, 2018
Right now, it is not uncommon to get two- and three-man limits in less than two hours while trolling or even casting.
Report: 2 Minnesota rivers, 1 in Wisconsin and Illinois among most endangered
Associated Press
April 13, 2018
In Minnesota, Kawishiwi River and stretch of Mississippi, along with Kinnickinnic River in Wisconsin and middle fork of Vermilion in Illinois included in that top-10 at-risk list.
Wisconsin celebrates proposed removal of Kirtland’s warbler from federal endangered species list
Wisconsin DNR Reports
April 12, 2018
Wisconsin’s population has grown from only 11 Kirtland’s warblers and three nests documented in 2007 to 53 birds and 20 total nests in 2017.
National Parks won’t raise fees after all
Jane Beathard
April 12, 2018
Huge public backlash has officials backing off plan.
