Fishing
State preserve hunts open on positive note
Columbus – A program designed to thin the deer herd on mostly unhunted state land is off to a decent start with plans to continue next year. The DNR_Division of Natural Areas and Preserves (DNAP)
Kansas is Hunter’s Heaven for Winter Waterfowl
Avid Kansas waterfowl hunters never worry about the post-holiday blues. For them, January and February mean some of the best hunting of the year. Late-migrating mallards are often abundant when shallow waters freeze, and mallards
Bison make a new home on the range – in Utah
Anetlope Island, Utah (AP) — For the first time in nearly 70 years, Utah has a new free-roaming bison herd. Officials in the U.S. state this week are taking the final steps toward restoring bison
Muzzleloader harvest on par with last year
DNR Staff Reports Columbus – Hunters took 20,659 deer during Ohio’s four-day muzzleloader season with Tuscarawas County again leading the state with 934 deer checked. Last year, a preliminary total of 21,473 deer was taken
Crossbow issue is coming to a head
Harrisburg – A proposal to allow crossbows to be used statewide in the archery season is looking a little less like a sure bet these days. When Pennsylvania Game Commissioners met in Washington County in
Jan. 15 – Winter season opens for lake and stream trout in Minnesota lakes
Minnesota man says he’ll move his crocodile out of town
Fergus Falls, Minn. (AP) — A Fergus Falls man says his pet crocodile, Billy, isn’t dangerous, but he’ll comply with a police order to move the 3-foot reptile out of town. Thirty-seven-year-old Marvin Weinrich Jr.
Insurance group notes a sharp decline in the state’s deer herd
State College, Pa. – Pennsylvania sportsmen don’t need an insurance company to tell them there are fewer deer in the state than there were six years or so ago, but they may be interested to
HAPET report examines loss of wetlands from 1980-2007
Fergus Falls, Minn. – More than 4 percent of the wetland areas in the state’s Prairie Pothole Region have been lost since 1980, according to a preliminary report by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s
