Fishing
Concerns emerge over ‘supplanting’ funding
St. Paul – With the passage of the constitutional amendment to dedicate funding to natural resources, there now are two bodies charged with making recommendations to lawmakers regarding spending on outdoors issues. The Lessard Outdoor
Feds make wolf ‘relisting’ official; delisting pending
Washington – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service made official last week the “relisting” of gray wolves in the Midwest, including Minnesota, where they’d been removed from the Endangered Species List just a year and
Staback: Lawsuit stops deer audit
Harrisburg – A long-promised independent audit of the Pennsylvania Game Commission’s controversial deer-management program may be in jeopardy because of a lawsuit filed against the agency by a sportsmen’s group. But then again, maybe not.
At last! Early ice predicted for eager anglers this month
Pittsburgh – All the state’s ice anglers want for Christmas is some of the hard stuff. Although they’ve been Scrooged out of the big freeze during holidays past, this winter they may get their wish.
Five Pa. towns make national Top 200 List
State College, Pa. – Five small cities in Pennsylvania have been listed among Outdoor Life’s “Top 200 Towns for Outdoorsmen” in the magazine’s Dec.-Jan. ’09 issue. In the story, written by Andrew McKean, few towns
Youth hunt tally falls by nearly 700 deer
DNR Staff Reports Columbus – Compared to last year, young hunters across Ohio killed nearly 700 fewer deer during this year’s special youth season. According to the DNR_Division of Wildlife, hunters age 17 and under
Gun harvest jumps 13,000 over 2007
DNR Staff Reports Columbus – Buoyed by an opening day harvest that was nearly 70 percent better than last year, Ohio hunters bagged 116,798 during the recently completed gun week. In 2007, hunters killed a
DNR sets late-season deer hunt in northwest
St. Paul – Hunters again will have the opportunity to hunt for whitetails well after the regular firearms season has ended. The DNR is holding a special late-season hunt in northwest Minnesota’s Permit Area 101
