The doe was shot on a deer damage shooting permit on an agricultural farm about 4 miles from the Michigan-Wisconsin border.
Archery deer kill starting to rebound with cooler weather
Six of seven animals in a small herd of captive white-tailed deer in Goodhue County died of the disease earlier this month.
(Photo by Bill Diers)Well, the Illinois 2018-19 deer season is officially underway. As always, I was in the deer woods on opening day for morning and afternoon hunts. The day was damp and dismal at best. I’ve never killed a deer opening day, but I’ve never not seen one, either. This year the only critter I saw was of a…
Archery harvest at 7,352 deer through Oct. 14. The number was 7,069 for the same period in 2017.
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.
Many different deer species may be infected with EHD, and white-tailed deer are highly susceptible, and experience high rates of mortality.Much like October of last year, the weather is just too darn humid and warm to immerse myself full-bore into archery hunting. This past Friday was my first excursion afield. The afternoon was cooler than the earlier part of week…
Unseasonably hot weather has spoiled early-season hunting.
Author’s game plan is to hunt next week, around Oct. 15, after he’s convinced himself he’s as ready as he’ll ever be to make the shot when it counts.
Archery season is open across New York and hunters couldn’t be happier. With the exception of a mid-October warm-up, the weather has been much cooler this year compared to the past two early archery seasons. Encouraging, to say the least, when considering a morning or evening in a tree stand or ground blind. In the Northern Zone, the early muzzleloading…
Wisconsin game farm owners must still comply with enhanced fencing requirements of CWD emergency rule.
Last year, 500 pounds of ground venison was donated to needy Somerset County families through the Hunters Sharing the Harvest program.
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.
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.
“The truth of the matter is if we don’t solve this problem the way it rose as we see in Wisconsin, Wyoming, West Virginia, Colorado, the future of deer hunting for your kids and your grandchildren will definitely be in jeopardy.”
Author getting tuned up for Saturday’s bow opener in Ohio.
Early comments hint that JCRAR members might do just that when Wisconsin Legislature reviews new CWD rules during Oct. 1 hearing. And if they kill the CWD rules, short-term politics will again trump long-term science.
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.
Testing also helps the DNR track the spread of CWD.
State Sen. Steve Nass, co-chairman of the Legislature’s rules committee, has called for a committee vote on suspending regs, saying they’re too costly and cumbersome to implement this year.
55 EHD-reported cases from 17 counties so far in 2018.
Hunt usually offers extended chances to harvest a deer without hurting the resource. That’s a good thing for both young and older hunters, at least those who don’t have excuses for not hunting.
ODNR convened series of meetings on the proposal.
So you’re sitting in the deer woods, or driving down the road, when you notice something completely out of the ordinary. It’s definitely a deer, but what in the world is all over its body? The deer appears to be covered with some sort of unsightly warts or tumors. You may not know exactly what is happening with the poor…
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