Fishing
Blue-green algae on the increasing bloom in Lake Erie
There’s a little thing that is becoming a big problem in Lake Erie. It also has a bad history. Back in the 1960s, some people proclaimed that Erie was a dead lake. Sewage treatment plants
Asian carp may have breached electronic barrier
Traverse City, Mich. (AP) -Asian carp may have breached an electronic barrier designed to prevent the giant invaders from upsetting the ecosystem in the Great Lakes and jeopardizing a $7 billion sport fishery, officials said.
Shepherd man denies illegally killing deer and elk
Billings, Mont. (AP) – A 60-year-old Shepherd man accused of illegally killing several mule deer bucks during the 2008 hunting season has pleaded not guilty. Jimmie Roberts appeared in Yellowstone County District Court on Tuesday
Mont. deer, elk season ends with higher numbers
Bozeman, Mont. (AP) – Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Department officials say fewer hunters got deer and elk during the last weekend of hunting season, but the total number of deer and elk killed this
Was record Cannon Falls 8-pointer shot with gun?
Red Wing, Minn. – The 8-point Goodhue County buck, allegedly poached by 32-year-old Troy A. Reinke, of Cannon Falls, just may have been shot with a rifle rather than a bow, as Reinke initially told
Hunters struggling to fill deer tags in S.D.
Spearfish, S.D. (AP) – Hunters say they aren’t seeing a lot of deer this hunting season despite increased activity. Many attribute the lower numbers to mountain lions and the long winter. Justin Raber, owner of
1 dead, 1 shot in dispute over bear hunting in Pa.
Summerville, Pa. (AP) – An argument over trespassing apparently sparked a shootout in rural northern Pennsylvania Tuesday that left a landowner dead and a member of a bear hunting party hospitalized with a gunshot wound,
Ill. hunter gets 25-point buck with Google’s help
Edwardsville, Ill. (AP) – It took Google Earth, a little deer psychology and a freak shot for a bow hunter in southern Illinois to bring down one of the largest deer in the state so
