Fishing
Warmth brings anglers window of opportunity
Baudette, Minn. – Sixty to 70 degrees, breezy, and sunny can do serious damage to March ice in Minnesota. But as the ice deteriorates on state lakes, ice-out boat angling is near, and hoards of
Maryland imposes horseshoe crab limit to aid shorebirds
Annapolis, Md. (AP) – Maryland officials are setting a new limit on the catch horseshoe crab to help shorebirds migrating up the Atlantic coast in spring. The Department of Natural Resources announced Tuesday that fishermen
Negligent homicide in hunting death upheld in Louisiana
New Orleans (AP) – Louisiana’s Supreme Court has reinstated the negligent homicide conviction of a man who shot his friend to death in an Avoyelles Parish deer hunting accident. According to Tuesday’s decision, Jake DeSoto
Colorado wolf sanctuary won’t have to remove fences
Fort Collins, Colo. (AP) – A northern Colorado wolf sanctuary won’t have to tear down fences for four new animal enclosures if it pays $82.50 for a building permit. The sanctuary, called Wolves Offered Life
Arkansas fishing report – March 18, 2009
CENTRAL ARKANSAS: Lake Conway: Water is stained and at normal level. Bream are biting fairly well on crickets and redworms fished around brush and stumps. Crappie are biting well on minnows fished in brush 10
State DNR to see fringe benefits of federal stimulus plan
St. Paul – If state agencies that serve the outdoors of Minnesota see benefits from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, also known as President Obama’s economic stimulus package, they’re likely to be peripheral, at
March 31 – The March season for chasing American crows closes until reopening again on July 15.
Minnesota Outdoors panel endorses 19 projects worth $69M
St. Paul, Minn. (AP) – The panel in charge of allocating voter-approved tax money for outdoors projects has endorsed a slate of 19 projects to get almost $69 million. The Lessard (leh-SARD’) Outdoor Heritage Council
Judge in Minnesota throws out lawsuit over fish virus
Duluth, Minn. (AP) – A lawsuit aimed at keeping a deadly fish disease out of Lake Superior has been thrown out of federal court. Four groups brought the lawsuit to compel several federal agencies to
