Off-season white-tailed deer hunting question: What’s your favorite rifle cartridge?
Tim Lesmeister
February 28, 2019
The author likes the 7mm-08, but if you were limited to one caliber for deer, what would it be?
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Never a bad time to shoot your bow
Mike Raykovicz
February 28, 2019
Year-round practice works wonders.
Amid difficult, snowy conditions, fish-house removal deadlines loom
Minnesota DNR Reports
February 28, 2019
The March 4 deadline applies to lakes south of an east-west line formed by U.S. Highway 10, east along Highway 34 to Minnesota Highway 200, east along Highway 200 to U.S. Highway 2, and east
Survivor recounts grizzly bear attack in northwest Montana
Associated Press
February 28, 2019
Bears attack people in northwest Montana a few times a year. That’s enough for medical professionals and wildlife managers to have developed a special protocol that’s part treatment, part forensics to ensure both parties recover.
Captive deer tests positive for CWD; disease management area to expand into elk range
Pennsylvania Game Commission Reports
February 26, 2019
While the new DMA 3 boundary will be announced after all sampling of hunter-harvested deer is final, the CWD-positive captive deer would expand DMA 3 to the northeast, where it would encompass at least some
DNR: Elk numbers at upper end of population goal
Michigan DNR
February 26, 2019
“Our population goal for elk is between 500 and 900 animals.” … “The survey tells us there are between 930 and 1,462 elk in Michigan.”
Iowa DNR: ‘We’ll see significant declines’ in pheasant, quail numbers following recent winter storm
Iowa DNR
February 26, 2019
What will the impact be on northern Iowa’s pheasant population and southern Iowa’s quail? A quick survey of area wildlife biologists settled on one theme: Not Good.
Birdwatching history: the first U.S. birding field guide
Sharon Stiteler
February 26, 2019
Remarkable tome with a remarkable inscription provides a window into the earliest days of North American birding and conservation.
In Pennsylvania, CWD is a statewide problem that needs statewide action
Mark Nale
February 25, 2019
Elected officials’ disconnect and a less-than-adequate job of public relations by the Pennsylvania Game Commission spells CWD woes.
