Fishing
Feds to study critical habitat for Idaho caribou
Spokane, Wash. (AP) – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has agreed to consider designating critical habitat for woodland caribou that roam northern Idaho and northeastern Washington state. The agency earlier this week settled a
Fishermen talk of flouting rules during king run
Fishermen on the lower Yukon River will get the king salmon they need to feed their families, even if it means getting a ticket or going to jail, two Alaska Native leaders said. State and
Wildlife agent shoots the breeze to get answers
Yakima, Wash. (AP) – Morgan Grant schmoozes for a living. He does it while wearing a holstered handgun because, for weeks on end, everybody he approaches is carrying a rifle which, for Grant, a state
Ill. teaches city kids to fish
Chicago (AP) – Regular school may be out soon, but urban fishing school’s in. The Illinois Department of Natural Resources is opening fishing clinics mainly for urban children in Chicago 16 years old and younger.
Upgraded status sought for once-dead Cuyahoga River
Cleveland (AP) State environmental officials and a regional clean water group have asked that large portions of the once-dead but still-symbolic Cuyahoga River be removed from an international list of polluted Great Lakes areas because
Wildlife restitution is back in poaching bill
Harrisburg – As state lawmakers continue wrestling with House Bill 97 – the anti-poaching measure – it appears restitution for illegally-killed game will stand, after all. But amendments may be added to soften penalties for
Spring gobbler take approaches 19,000
Columbus Ashtabula County once again tops all counties with 831 birds Hunters checked 18,936 wild turkeys during Ohio’s four-week, statewide spring turkey-hunting season that ended May 17, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources
European rudd found in Ohio’s Erie waters
Marblehead, Ohio – A Lake Erie commercial fisherman recently netted the first recorded European rudd in Ohio waters. Fisherman Jim Swartz caught the invasive fish near the Lakeside Pier in Marblehead, Ohio, and turned it
Conservation groups praise support of Clean Water Act
Contributing Writer Washington – Conservation groups last month were quick to praise the Obama administration’s support for the proposed Clean Water Restoration Act, a federal bill that is said to restore waters protections awarded by
