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48-inch Green Bay pike could be release record

Green Bay, Wis. — Doug Wegner, 19, of Oconomowoc, released his biggest hard-water pike ever on Monday, March 19 while fishing Green Bay, and that 48-inch fish likely will become the state’s new catch-and-release record,

BREAKING NEWS: Crossbows coming to New York

An agreement within the New York state budget will allow crossbow use for all hunters in portions of the Northern and Southern zone big game seasons this fall.

Study seeks answer to decline of black ducks

Wilkes-Barre, Pa. — Molly Giles waded into a cold marsh in Cherry Valley and adjusted a funnel trap she was hoping would capture some of the mallards and the occasional black ducks that frequented the

U.P. man says he killed cougar to protect his father

Detroit (AP) — A man who pleaded guilty to killing a cougar in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula in December said he was defending his father, but state wildlife officials said the animal posed no threat and

Ohio home to more sandhill cranes than believed

Oak Harbor, Ohio — A five-year study of Ohio’s sandhill cranes revealed a surprise: the state is home to more of the birds than biologists originally believed. “Numbers (of cranes) are expanding. We find new

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