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Increased fines await those who poach bucks
State lawmakers recently approved legislation to stiffen penalties for poachers who fix their sights on trophy bucks.

Once dead streams to be stocked
West Branch, Bennett Branch to get trout

Bill would place bounties on coyotes
Last month, the House Game and Fisheries Committee approved a piece of legislation to place a bounty on coyotes taken by properly licensed hunters and furtakers.

Troubling: Follow Marcellus money
Hunters and anglers have heard the politicians and watched the industry commercials on television touting clean energy, natural gas for 100 years, and energy independence for the United States
Pennsylvania Cuffs & Collars – December 6th, 2013
NORTHWEST REGION From the Game Commission Butler County WCO Chip L. Brunst has bee receiving calls from individuals reporting road hunting. While investigating a recent road hunting and shooting incident, the suspect told Brunst: “I

All’s quiet on this deer hunters front
There’s a steady yearly decline in the number of gun shots heard the first and second days of the regular gun season.
MInnesota Cuffs & Collars – December 6th, 2013
District 1 – Baudette area CO Angie Warren (Thief River Falls) monitored ice-angling activity on area waterways. Follow-up was conducted regarding a trespass complaint. CO Robert Gorecki (Baudette) monitored fishing activity throughout the week. Ice

DNR awaits Squarehook action in federal court
A week after a federal judge dismissed the cases against five tribal members charged with buying, selling, and transporting fish illegally, no appeal has been made by federal prosecutors

Low bird numbers in Dakotas, Iowa ground traveling pheasant hunters
As interested parties gathered this week at a so-called Pheasant Habitat Summit in South Dakota, one thing surely on their minds and up for discussion was the loss of state revenue caused by fewer Minnesota