Fishing
SD pheasant plan available for review
Pierre, S.D. (AP) – The South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks Department says people can review the agency’s five-year draft management plan for pheasants. The 84-page report covers how the department proposes to manage the
Elk herd ‘depopulation’ begins near Rochester
Rochester, Minn. – Depopulation of the state’s largest farmed elk herd began last week, nine months after the discovery of chronic wasting disease in a slaughtered cow elk from what formerly was Elk Country U.S.A.
Northeast, eastern counties baited for rabies
Columbus – The Ohio departments of Health (ODH) and Natural Resources (ODNR), in partnership with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Wildlife Services will begin fall oral rabies vaccination operations
Duck harvest shows fairly large decline
Washington – U.S. waterfowl hunters killed about 13.7 million ducks last season, a drop from 2007, when they killed nearly 14.6 million ducks. Ohio contributed to that decline; the total duck kill dropped by more
Car hits, kills cougar on south side of Bemidji
Bemidji, Minn. – State wildlife officials haven’t determined if an animal hit and killed by a vehicle in Bemidji last Friday was wild or not, but one thing is clear: It was a mountain lion.
Sportsmen groups outraged by regulatory head’s confirmation
Washington – The U.S. Senate on Sept. 9 voted to end debate on the nomination of what the Columbus, Ohio-based U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance calls one of the most outspoken animal rights, anti-hunting, and anti-Second Amendment
$4.6 million gift will buy new wildlife area land
Carbondale, Ohio – The state will use a $4.6 million gift to purchase the newest wildlife area in southeast Ohio. The money, the largest gift in the history of the DNR Division of Wildlife, will
