
Preliminary results: Bear harvest dipped
The issuance of fewer bear licenses and reduced hunting pressure, both in terms of hunters and hunting effort, may have played a role in the slight reduction in the bear kill from 2015.
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The issuance of fewer bear licenses and reduced hunting pressure, both in terms of hunters and hunting effort, may have played a role in the slight reduction in the bear kill from 2015.

Wildlife managers say it’s still too early to determine any impacts on hunting seasons.

Argues that Wildlife Services has failed to follow the National Environmental Policy Act when killing dozens of wolves in Idaho’s Lolo zone over the last six years.

Above-average temperatures last weekend, expected to be followed by way above-average temps this weekend could significantly alter the state’s ice-fishing landscape.

The algae blooms in recent years have contaminated drinking water supplies, turned the waters an unsightly shade of green and contributed to oxygen-deprived dead zones where fish can’t survive.

Across Michigan, fishing seasons for lake sturgeon can extend several months, depending on the water body, but the Black Lake season often lasts only a matter of hours. This year’s season, which just recently concluded,

The author has owned and fired pistols and revolvers for decades, but still found a Minnesota concealed carry class enlightening and an opportunity to reinforce safety rules and skills.

Meeting prompted after a deer harvested during the 2016 hunting season in west-central Clayton County tested positive for chronic wasting disease — the first wild deer that tested positive for CWD outside of Allamakee County.

Anglers were fishing on about 3 inches of ice on West Lake Osceola; ice fishing is not recommended over about the southern third of the state.
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