Researchers with the DNR are monitoring about 30 radio-collared black bears across the state, and asked hunters to voluntarily avoid shooting these valuable research subjects. They obliged.
Harvest at 13,068 deer. At the same point in 2017, the harvest stood at 10,912.
Hunter numbers have declined significantly from earlier this season, according to Minnesota Waterfowl Migration and Hunting Report.
More than 5,000 hunters/trappers applied for bobcat permits, and 1,000 permits will be issued.
Thousands of hunters in blaze orange will take to the fields when Iowa’s pheasant season opens Oct. 27. And with the second highest pheasant population in a decade, hunters can afford to be optimistic.
The hunter and his partner were in the Beattie Gulch area and surprised a sow and cub at very close range. The sow charged.
(Photo by Windigo Images)TRENTON, N.J. — A total of 139 bears were killed during the first six-day period of New Jersey’s annual black bear hunt, as expected a steep drop from last year’s total following restrictions imposed by the governor. Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy this year barred bear hunting on state-owned lands, removing roughly 40 percent of the lands where…
Attendees that hunted ranged in age from 14 to 91. Those hunters encountered wet fields that delayed the fall harvest, yet yielded 26 roosters during the morning hunt.
The first three weeks of duck season have been the coldest recorded in at least the last 50 years.
For the first time in the 32-year history of the program, it almost didn’t take place, saved by an 11th-hour agreement between fur buyers and the MDHA for a higher price for hides.
Pheasants will be released for opening day and prior to the Veterans Day and Thanksgiving holiday weekends.
Weekend festivities kick off on Friday afternoon with a dedication of the Rooster Ridge Wildlife Management Area.
As bears become more common in prairie creek bottoms and brush rows, encounters with bird hunters become more frequent as well.
Some areas in central and southern Minnesota still held good numbers of teal and wood ducks. In northern Minnesota, ring-necked numbers have increased along with other diving ducks.
In North Dakota, pheasant hunting opportunities available this fall for women to engage their peers in the field.
Wisconsin game farm owners must still comply with enhanced fencing requirements of CWD emergency rule.
The Minnesota DNR has created videos on how to get deer tested for chronic wasting disease, how to quarter a deer, how to cape a trophy deer and how to remove lymph nodes. “We’re informing hunters about what they can do to minimize risk to our wild deer population,” said Lou Cornicelli, wildlife research manager. “There are a few changes…
Buck taken during the opening weekend of archery season near Preston in southeastern Minnesota’s disease management zone.
Biggest change came with pheasant hunter numbers, which saw a 32 percent drop from 2016.
The legislation, sponsored by state Sen. Mario M. Scavello, provides another choice for hunters who have shot and inflicted injury on a white-tailed deer, black bear or elk, but lose the trail.
North Dakota’s Game and Fish Department is issuing only three bighorn sheep hunting licenses this year because the western Badlands population is still dealing with a deadly bacterial pneumonia outbreak.
Agency would consider heard structure, population dynamics and other metrics when setting permit levels.
Water levels remain fairly dry in the northern portion of the state but good to excellent across most of the rest of the state.
Conservation groups, sportsmen convince NRB members that there is no scientific information available to support Nov. 30 closure.
Ruling nixes planned hunts in Wyoming and Idaho this fall.
Biologists are expecting the number of deer taken to increase slightly from last year’s numbers, which were up more than 10 percent from the previous year across the state.
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