Fishing
US duck numbers higher than normal
Baton Rouge, La. (AP) – Extra-wet conditions in the Dakotas and Montana resulted in a record-setting year for waterfowl in the United States and the projections for another 60-day duck season for Louisiana hunters. The
Monsanto opens river to anglers
Soda Springs, Idaho (AP) – Eight miles of the upper Blackfoot River will be opened to anglers after nearly a decade. The Monsanto Company in Soda Springs recently purchased the Fox Hills Ranch, a 2,200-acre
Pronghorn licenses down in N.D.
Bismarck, N.D. (AP) – Pronghorn licenses available for this fall’s hunting season in North Dakota are down nearly 50 percent from a year ago. The Game and Fish Department says the drop is due to
State sets September hunt for Canada geese
Waterbury, Vt. (AP) – Gearing up for the annual influx of migrating Canada geese, the state of Vermont has set dates for a statewide open hunt on the birds. The Vermont Fish & Wildlife Board
North Dakota deer lottery held
Bismarck, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota’s deer license lottery had 94,000 applicants, tying the record set in each of the last two years. The first lottery application process is for the deer gun, muzzleloader, youth
Wisconsin mink production dips but still leads nation
Madison, Wis. (AP) – Wisconsin’s mink production has dipped slightly, but the state still leads the nation easily in that category. The U.S. Department of Agriculture says Wisconsin produced 910,000 mink pelts in 2008, down
Negotiations for Lake Vermilion state park at ‘impasse’
St. Paul – Two years ago, everything seemed in line for the shores of Lake Vermilion to be the home of Minnesota’s newest state park. Legislative approval in 2008 of $20 million in bonding money
Wisconsin attorney general to appeal deer-snowmobile incident decision
Madison, Wis. (AP) — Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen says he will appeal judges’ decisions to drop animal cruelty charges against two men accused of running down deer with snowmobiles last January, killing four of
If it was a bullhead, it was a new state record
Capital Correspondent Harrisburg – Was it or wasn’t it?
