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Who is ‘the decider’ on the Wisconsin deer management landscape?
CDACs, DNR, Natural Resources Board, and individual hunters tugging on antlerless deer quota recommendations.

A short but very sweet turkey hunt
Hunters enjoy a textbook turkey hunt on a foggy Michigan morning.

Bizarre canine critter shot in north-central Montana baffles public, biologists
Social media chatter over the large, brown furry animal has ranged from mangy wolf to young grizzly to resurrected extinct species to crypto-canid “Dogman”
Ohio Outdoor News Cuffs & Collars – May 25, 2018
Central Ohio – Wildlife District 1 • During the 2018 January waterfowl season, state wildlife officer Josh Elster, assigned to Pickaway County, was informed of a waterfowl hunter who had fallen into the Scioto River.
Pennsylvania Outdoor News Cuffs & Collars – May 25, 2018
SOUTHWEST REGION From the Game Commission Beaver County Game Warden Mike Yeck reports a Mercer County juvenile pleaded guilty to possessing a loaded firearm while in a moving vehicle. The juvenile was in a coyote

First grizzly hunt in decades a go in Wyoming
The decision follows months of public meetings and discussions.
Michigan Outdoor News Cuffs & Collars – May 25, 2018
DISTRICT 1 CO Dave Miller set up a trail camera on a known dumping site located on private property. As you enter the area, there are signs that read “NO DUMPING.” After 48 hours, Miller
Minnesota Outdoor News Cuffs & Collars – May 25, 2018
District 1 – Baudette area CO Jeremy Woinarowicz (Thief River Falls) participated in a memorial service during National Police Week, monitored area angling activity, and investigated a gray wolf depredation complaint. CO Demosthenes Regas (Blackduck)

White-tailed deer fawns fare better in farmland than forests — in Pennsylvania and across North America
Researchers modeled fawn survival relative to the percentage of agricultural land cover. The estimated average survival to six months of age was about 41 percent in contiguous forest landscapes with no agriculture. For every 10