Fishing
MN: Across the continent, waterfowl numbers increase
St. Paul – Across the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s duck breeding populations survey area, things are ducky. And wet. According to the agency’s 2011 report on populations, total duck abundance (45.6 million) jumped 11
MI: Funding cut for wolf depredation program
Lansing – Federal officials who work with Upper Peninsula farmers plagued by wolf attacks will cease their operations this month as a result of funding cuts in Washington. Earmarks that fund the U.S. Department of
MI: Pheasant initiative takes root
St. Johns, Mich. – On a sunny, windswept day at the Maple River State Game Area in Clinton County, the highly anticipated Michigan Pheasant Restoration Initiative officially began. Dignitaries from several local conservation organizations and
PA: Agency involved in odd monkey business
Pittsburgh – A suburban Pittsburgh man has vowed to wage a legal battle to get his pet monkey returned from the Pennsylvania Game Commission. Although a municipal judge recently upheld the commission’s confiscation of the
PA: Expert: Rabies worse due to less trapping
University Park, Pa. – Shrinking furbearer habitat and a decline in trapping may be impacting efforts to stem the spread of rabies. The average number of wildlife rabies cases in Pennsylvania spiraled in the 1980s
PA: PGC backs Sunday hunt in resolution
Harrisburg – The Pennsylvania Game Commission has, for the first time ever, come out in support of expanded Sunday hunting. But it was not a decision made without controversy. The idea passed by the narrowest
OH: Former governor Taft fights water use bill
Columbus – Former Ohio Gov. Bob Taft, a key figure in negotiation of the Great Lakes Compact, made a rare legislative appearance to oppose a bill that lays out Ohio’s rules for using water from
OH: Akron bowfisherman takes new record longnosed gar
Akron, Ohio – It was just by chance that Zachary Jared happened to be bowfishing at Turkeyfoot Lake in Summit County on May 12. Jared, 24, of Akron, had planned to bowfish at Atwood Lake
Anne LaBastille, Adirondack ‘Woodswoman,’ dies
ALBANY, New York (AP) – Anne LaBastille, the environmentalist, sometime hermit and author whose “Woodswoman” autobiographies inspired others to venture into the wilderness, has died at a nursing home. She was 75. The city clerk’s
