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Minnesota Outdoor News Cuffs & Collars – May 11, 2018
District 1 – Baudette area CO Ben Huener (Roseau) monitored area turkey-hunting and sucker-netting activity. A small young-of-the-year black bear was captured after it was determined the cub was orphaned and needed to be taken
Fast and furious walleye jigging tips for opener and early season open-water fishing
Though border-water angling has been underway for weeks, Minnesota’s fishing season starts Saturday, May 12, and walleyes and jigs go hand-in-hand.
Wild turkey surprise: Locating and calling boss gobblers during the unusual spring of 2018
A strange season has developed for longbeard activity, but persistent, savvy hunters still can locate a workable tom turkey.
Wisconsin researchers: CWD found in soil near mineral licks
Research helps confirm longstanding suspicions that prions can accumulate in the environment in areas such as mineral licks or feeding and baiting sites where deer congregate, and scientists believe environmental reservoirs of prions could serve
Mule deer continue strong recovery in western North Dakota
Biologists counted 2,540 mule deer over 245.8 square miles during this year’s survey. That’s 45 percent above the long-term average, with overall mule deer density in the badlands at 10.3 deer per square mile, down
Missing a gobbler: It happened today, and it will probably happen again
Still, the excitement surrounding turkey hunting is the very reason we arise in the middle of the night and head out into the turkey woods.
Bill OK’d to let 10- to 13-year-olds hunt on public land
Supporters say the bill would fix an oversight because youth hunters already can hunt on private land open to the public but not other public land.
Deer feeding bill gets massive makeover, passes Senate
The DNR has been opposed to supplemental feeding but appears to be neutral on a proposed University of Illinois deer study.
Illinois Outdoor News Cuffs & Collars – May 4, 2018
Northwest Zone– Captain Laura Petreikis In Carroll County, CPO Jones issued a Mount Carroll woman a citation for damage to property for backing over two signs at Mississippi Palisades State Park. In Stephenson County, CPO
