Fishing
Wrong Duck Stamp number brings callers to phone sex
Washington – People who call to order a federal Duck Stamp could be in for a surprise: Instead of hearing about waterfowl, they’re greeted by a phone-sex line. The result of a printing error, the
USFWS denies state’s bluebill hunt request
St. Paul – The hand-wringing over scaup limits is over. At least for now. The bluebill season in the state will be the one that’s published in the 2008 waterfowl regulations supplement: one per day
Pheasant numbers decline 24 percent from last year
Madelia, Minn. – Cool, wet spring weather, combined with a net loss of grassland habitat in the state’s pheasant range, likely led to a 24-percent drop in the number of pheasants in the state. While
PGC finally to offer hunting land maps
Harrisburg – A huge, if unintentionally-secret, Pennsylvania Game Commission program may finally be coming to light. For the better part of seven decades, the commission has been convincing farmers, foresters, and other private landowners to
Campaign mounts for Sunday hunting
Harrisburg – The Governor’s Advisory Council on Hunting, Fishing and Conservation has kicked off an educational campaign about the benefits of allowing hunting on Sundays in the state. The effort is in support of a
2008 deer kill could top a quarter million
Athens, Ohio – It’s been a recurring theme during the past five years, but it’s very likely that Ohio deer hunters will set a new harvest record again this year. Mike Tonkovich, the DNR Division
Zimmerman man fined for killing wolf
Duluth, Minn. – A 46-year-old Zimmerman man has been fined for killing a gray wolf six years ago, when the wolf was protected under the federal Endangered Species Act, according to a press statement from
