Fishing
National group focuses on health of woodcock
By Marty Kovarik Correspondent Crystal Falls, Mich. — A newly formed conservation group, organized to focus its attention on the American woodcock, is growing at a steady pace, says the group’s president, Jim Hammill, of
Conservation fund protection supported
By Steve Griffin Field Editor Lansing — Michigan citizens voted by overwhelming margins to protect conservation funds built on license, permit, and user fees, and to protect mourning doves. It was a good-news, bad-news result
DEC proposes Youth Pheasant Hunt
Staff report Albany – DEC, following the success of its youth turkey hunt and youth waterfowl hunt, is proposing a special Youth Pheasant Hunt next fall prior to the regular pheasant hunting season. The hunt
New study shows hunting’s effects on timberdoodles
By Bill Parker Correspondent Roscommon, Mich. — Biologists and hunters have speculated for years about what impact managed hunting has on the American woodcock population. With the continental population in a slow but steady decline
Snowstorms batter some deer hunters
Staff report Indian Lake, N.Y. – Northern Zone deer hunters in a portion of the Adirondacks were greeted by a nearly two-foot snowfall on the second weekend of the season, a storm that likely contributed
Excellent bear kill could alter quotas
Staff Report Madison — The final 2006 black bear kill is still being tallied, but one thing is clear already – Wisconsin hunters shot a lot of bears, and that has DNR bear biologists looking
Early reports indicate a good duck hunt in ’06
DNR Report Madison — Early reports and preliminary numbers from the field indicate that Wisconsin waterfowl hunters are having a good season, and they should have good hunting opportunities in the remaining weeks of the
Cattaraugus archery kill likely state’s No. 2 buck
By Steve Piatt Editor Ellicottville, N.Y. – Corey Wiktor readily admits he eats, breathes and sleeps whitetails and whitetail hunting. He uses quality deer management practices on his two leased properties in Cattaraugus County and
Study: CWD is likely spread by saliva
Washington (AP) – Deer probably spread chronic wasting disease through their saliva, concludes a study that finally pins down a long-suspected culprit. The key to the discovery was that Colorado researchers tested some special deer.
