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March 1 marked a new year for licensure
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March 1 marked a new year for licensure

Longer season. Shorter season. Bigger deer herd. Smaller deer herd.

As the state’s farmers and landowners consider the fast- approaching round of CRP signups, Illinois Pheasants Forever is recognizing the need to nudge and budge them.

Come March 31, last year’s statewide hunting and fishing permits become nothing more than useless slips of paper.

New Natural Resources Board chairman Preston Cole had animal rights activist Patricia Randolph removed from a Feb. 26 meeting at which NRB members eventually agreed to make no changes to wolf/dog hunting rules.

The nation is set to lose 3.3 million acres of federal Conservation Reserve Program land this September

Hunters and trappers could soon get their wish for a bobcat season south of State Hwy. 64.

Mortality at Rome leaves production down by 300,000

Report says legislation needed in New York
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