Fishing
Ten more days for doves this year
DNR, Staff Reports Columbus – The early waterfowl season dates and bag limits were approved by the Ohio Wildlife Council, but the biggest news of the night was stolen away by mourning doves. Ohio hunters
DNR still negotiating for land for Lake Vermilion state park
St. Paul – It’s been more than a year since state officials made known their interest in buying land on Lake Vermilion and turning it into the state’s newest state park. Since then, a task
Survey: Anglers love stocked trout
Harrisburg – Although Pennsylvania anglers say they care about wild trout, a majority supports stocking even streams with high densities of wild fish. That finding is part of the Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission’s first
No records in PGC antler scoring
Harrisburg – The antler- and skull-scoring sessions held earlier this summer by the Pennsylvania Game Commission revealed that some very nice deer, elk and bears have been taken in recent years. There seem to be
Stripping of eggs banned by PF&BC
Harrisburg – Although Pennsylvania Fish & Boat commissioners at their summer meeting here July 14-15 did not discuss opening trout season year-round or trout-stocking changes resulting from their controversial new resource-first policy – as many
USDA: No need for ‘early out’ of CRP
Washington – Conservationists hoping the Conservation Reserve Program wouldn’t be further eroded by an “early out” option breathed a collective sigh of relief Tuesday when U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer announced his agency
Cattle removal to begin in northwest bovine TB area
St. Paul – Efforts to stop the spread of bovine tuberculosis are continuing. The disease was discovered in the state in 2005, and since then there’s been a concerted effort to kill deer around the
Buck Club plans big 50th celebration
Columbus – Ohio’s Buckeye Big Buck Club is accustomed to working with large racks from white-tailed deer killed in the state, but this year it will also be working with large numbers of people at
State to lease 74,000 acres for gas drilling
Harrisburg – One of Appalachia’s largest landowners, Pennsylvania’s state forestry agency, wants in on any windfall from drilling a potentially lucrative natural gas formation. More than 74,000 acres, or more than 115 square miles, in
