Fishing
Training Sessions Set for April 22 and 25 for Delaware Bay Horseshoe Crab Spawning Survey Volunteers Encouraged to Attend
The Delaware National Estuarine Research Reserve will hold two training sessions for volunteers of the annual horseshoe crab spawning survey. Sessions will be held from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 22, and from 10
Mich. morel mushroom hunters predict bumper crop
Mesick, Mich. (AP) – Michigan’s morel mushroom season is almost here, and experts say it could be a banner year. That is if Mother Nature comes through with some much-needed rain. Some say the early
Early muskie season set for repeal
Eagle River, Wis. – With overwhelming legislative support, Gov. Jim Doyle is expected to sign a bill that nixes an early catch-and-release muskie season and that removes a barbless hook requirement for early muskie and
Session enters its final month
St. Paul – Given a May 18 adjournment, state lawmakers have about a month to finalize a budget that’s likely to include painful cuts in many areas. They also have to decide how exactly to
Iowa man charged with illegal turkey hunting
West Union, Iowa (AP) – An Evansdale man who authorities say shot a turkey from his car in northeast Iowa has been charged. Forty-nine-year-old Daniel Hermann is accused of shooting the wild turkey on Tuesday
Information needed to solve killing of 89 bats near Superstition Mountains
Phoenix – The Arizona Game and Fish Department is asking for the public’s help in solving a case involving the unlawful killing of nearly 90 bats in an abandoned mine near the Peralta Trailhead in
Battle lines drawn as HSUS sets up shop
Madison – While the Humane Society of the United States has been active in Wisconsin in the past, the organization now appears poised to take a more aggressive role in advocating for strong animal rights
Another whitetail apparently has bovine TB
Middle River, Minn. – For a while, it looked like this might be the first year since bovine tuberculosis was discovered in deer in the northwest that no animals tested positive. That apparently won’t be
Comment period open for several fishing proposals
Duluth, Minn. – DNR Fisheries is now taking and weighing public comments on a number of suggested changes to rules governing fishing – some commercial, some recreational – on Lake Superior. And in one case,
