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Whitetail Alliance suggests restraint
A growing and determined group of hunters in Illinois is borrowing strategy from a national waterfowl organization as part of an attempt to resurrect the state’s slumping deer herd.

Trapping licenses will be subject to new law
As veteran trapper Neal Graves put it, “trapping is no longer stuck in the 1960s and ‘70s.”

Flyway Vision: ducks may not use rivers to navigate
What we long assumed about ducks and how they navigate their way south down the Illinois River Valley each fall may not be true.
Illinois Cuffs & Collars – September 19th, 2014
Region I A District 7 CPO conducted a boat safety and sport fishing compliance check of two men fishing from a boat near the dam at Oak Run Lake in Knox County. When asked for

Duck forecast has waterfowlers flying high
At 9 a.m. on Sept. 27, across large marshes and small potholes, from lakes and rivers and sloughs, over wild rice beds and backwater swamps, and from boat blinds and shore blinds and every other
Wisconsin Cuffs & Collars – September 19th, 2014
District 1 — Ashland area No report available. District 2 — Cumberland area No report available. District 3 — Park Falls area Warden Tim Otto, of Antigo, with assistance from wardens Ben Herzfeldt, of Wausau,

New panfish bag, size limits now under review
Anglers may not be interested in major changes to Wisconsin’s panfish regulations, but they appear to be willing to consider tighter regulations on specific lakes deemed by the DNR to have overharvest issues.

Burnett County celebrates ‘Jordan Buck’ centennial
It’s the nature of hunters to tell and re-tell the stories of their hunting triumphs, but few of these stories survive more than a generation.

Trappers’ national convention to N.Y.
2015 gathering scheduled for western N.Y.