Fishing
Early goose season to kick off Sept. 6
St. Paul – Aside from a few localized areas of low water, and other locations where cool spring air and rain may have influenced brood sizes, there’s little reason to expect anything less than a
PGC says no game lands gas windfall
Harrisburg – At a time when the natural gas industry, landowners, local governments and other state agencies are bracing for an economic boom from an unprecedented wave of natural-gas drilling, Pennsylvania Game Commission officials recently
DNR aims to provide additional ATV trails
Columbus – Whether you call them ATVs (all-terrain vehicles) or APVs (all-purpose vehicles), one thing is clear – off-roading is a growing outdoor pursuit in Ohio. And officials at the DNR are taking that fact
Few lawmakers at license fee hearing
Cambridge Springs, Pa. – Well, at least hotel space wasn’t an issue. State lawmakers have been saying for three years that if the Pennsylvania Game Commission wants them to increase the cost of hunting license
Deep-well natural gas poses big risks
University Park, Pa. – Reminiscent of Pennsylvania’s halcyon days of oil production and coal mining early in the last century, the current boom in natural-gas well drilling poses a risk to the state’s streams and
Disease suspected in bird kills
Forest Lake, Minn. – A highly infective virus known as Newcastle is likely to blame for the deaths of a number of double-crested cormorants and possibly other non-game birds in the state, in July and
Vendor penalized $155,000 penalty for turkey tag fiasco
Madison – The DNR’s leftover license sales vendor will pay the state $155,000 in penalties for problems associated with the sale of over-the-counter spring turkey tags. Hunters who tried to buy leftover tags on March
Fishing license sales drop creates a $1 million hole
Madison – Whether a downturn in fishing license sales was caused by a cold spring, flooding, high fuel prices, or a combination of all three factors, the results are the same for the DNR budget
Duck hunters get 60 days, but not cans
Platteville, Wis. – State hunters will get a 2008 duck-hunting season with a liberal format, just like last year, but with new restrictions on scaup and canvasbacks. The Natural Resources Board adopted DNR recommendations for
