MInnesota license-fee increase bills pending
Site Staff
March 8, 2012
Bills haven’t yet been introduced, but support at the Legislature for increasing hunting and fishing license fees seems to be building.
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Minnesota DNR names Erik Thorson acting big-game leader
Site Staff
March 8, 2012
Erik Thorson, a Minnesota DNR forest wildlife coordinator, has accepted a temporary assignment to oversee the agency’s while-tailed deer and other big-game programs.
CRP sign-up begins with nod toward conservation
Site Staff
March 8, 2012
Conservation groups can do the calculations: Given high grain prices in recent years, who could blame farmers for taking cropland out of CRP or ignoring program sign-ups?
‘Fortitude’ required to rebuild DNR
Site Staff
March 8, 2012
A pair of respected former DNR officials are speaking up in hopes that the struggling agency can be pulled out of a decade-long fiscal free fall.
MIchigan website’s focus: forest habitat projects
Site Staff
March 1, 2012
A new state website soon will allow residents and outdoorsmen to review habitat improvement work through a point-and-click map, with markers for fisheries, wildlife, and forest management programs.
Chestnut-restoration effort switches gears in Pennsylvania
Site Staff
March 1, 2012
The three-decades-old initiative to restore American chestnut trees back into forests in the eastern United States has entered a new phase, according to an expert in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences.
PF&BC gets a cut of gas fee
Site Staff
March 1, 2012
Gov. Tom Corbett recently signed Marcellus shale impact fee legislation that will collect $180.5 million statewide in fees for drilling activity done in 2011 and as much as $355 million in 2015, according to some
‘Everything on table’ for DNR funding
Site Staff
February 23, 2012
Proverbial warning shots fired into the air nearly 10 years ago are again being referenced by DNR officials and employees up and down the state.
Officials seek to replace ’12’s expiring CRP acres in Wisconsin
Site Staff
February 23, 2012
With the backdrop the looming loss of more than 6.5 million Conservation Reserve Program acres nationwide this September, federal officials recently announced that another round of general CRP signup will commence March 12 and run
