Fishing
Audit: Reveal deer numbers
Harrisburg – The Pennsylvania Game Commission’s deer- management program is scientifically solid, defensible and largely credible.
Feds won’t close Chicago canal
Traverse City, Mich. (AP) – With marauding Asian carp on the Great Lakes’ doorstep, the federal government has crafted a $78.5 million battle plan that offers no assurance of thwarting an invasion and doesn’t use
Turkey proposal sparks debate
Madison – Mike Rogers says it no longer matters whether it was legislators or hunters who came up with a proposal to drastically change the spring turkey season; now that the bill is out in
Debate over bear bill to expand hound hunting heats up
Madison – It remains to be seen just what the Senate Natural Resources Committee will do with a black bear bill that would expand hound hunting, but testimony last Thursday made it clear that many
Road kill bill on the move
Madison – A proposal to relax the rules on picking up road-killed bears, turkeys, and many small-game species recently passed the Assembly, and it could become a law by spring. Assembly Bill 548 would allow
Big fish! Age of record-setting Wisconsin sturgeon?
Oshkosh, Wis. (AP) – A Wisconsin wildlife official says a record-setting sturgeon speared over the weekend may have been more than 100 years old. Ron Bruch, a fisheries supervisor with the Wisconsin DNR says officials
Cox continues fight to keep Asian carp out of Great Lakes
Grand Rapids, Mich. – Although the U.S. Supreme Court denied Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox’s request for a preliminary injunction to temporarily close the locks on the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal to keep Asian
PGC introduces extended and youth rabbit seasons
Harrisburg – Lions and tigers and bears, oh my? Not quite. But January’s meeting of the Pennsylvania Game Commis-sion – an event usually dominated by talk of white-tailed deer, as if that was the only
Nuisance geese could be taken out with rifle under law
Columbus – There’s good news for Ohio’s grain farmers as state wildlife officials propose the use of both rifles and shotguns to kill the Canada geese that are eating field crops. The DNR Division of
