Fishing
WI: Officials seek more timber harvest
Iron Mountain, Mich. – Counties and towns in northern Wisconsin and Michigan intend to “coordinate” their way to more timber sales on national forest land, or take back national forest lands and put that acreage
WI: Turkey tag numbers the same as last fall
Madison – The DNR Turkey Committee has decided to issue the same number of permits this fall as last fall. That means 95,700 permits will be available for the 2011 fall turkey season, which runs
NY: New York’s federal funding jeopardized
$20M could be withheld due to state budget’s Conservation Fund ‘sweep’ language Albany – New York is at risk of losing millions of dollars in federal funding because of language in the state budget that
NY: Across the continent, duck numbers increase
Alexandria, Va. – Across the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s duck breeding populations survey area, things are just ducky. And wet. According to the agency’s 2011 report on populations, total duck abundance (45.6 million) jumped
IL: DNR calling for 60-day duck season
Springfield – When DNR rolled out its annual waterfowl hunting proposals earlier this month, the state’s duck hunters may have been more focused on changes to hunting zones than actual season dates. So here they
IL: Grand American shooters again flocking to Sparta
Sparta, Ill. – Tara Short would like to eliminate the heat – but that’s the only thing American Trapshooting Association member and staff would change about the 2011 Grand American. The largest shooting tournament in
IL: Bowfishing tourney produces record carp
Springfield – A new state-record bighead Asian carp was among nearly 12,000 fish taken by participants in the Bowfishing Association of Illinois’ second-annual Director’s Shoot on the Illinois River near Starved Rock State Park on
AR: Outdoors Expo coming up Aug. 20-21 at Conway
CONWAY – Hunters anxious for the upcoming seasons can get a taste of them at the Arkansas Outdoors Expo, Aug. 20-21 in Conway. It is billed as “Arkansas’s only major hunting and fishing show scheduled
AR: Commission approves early migratory bird seasons
LITTLE ROCK – At Tuesday’s special meeting of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, commissioners approved the early season migratory bird dates. The season selections must be reported to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
