Fishing
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
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
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
Oakland County archer arrows 200-class buck
Sylvan Lake, Mich. – Brian Hughes knew he was in trouble. The object of three years of hunting – a 200-class white-tailed buck – was somewhere nearby and Hughes just couldn’t bring himself to climb
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
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
It’s official: Stephens holds new Ohio muzzleloader mark
DNR Report Dayton, Ohio – The DNR Division of Wildlife announced that another record-setting deer has been harvested in southwestern Ohio. On Jan. 30, the 18-point nontypical (nonsymmetrical antlered) deer taken by Brian Stephens on
PGC may cut doe seasons in 4 units
Harrisburg – Responding to years of hunter anger over low deer numbers in the northern tier and worries about fawn predation by coyotes, Pennsylvania game commissioners took a big step toward reducing antlerless deer seasons
