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MN: McNamara says current LCCMR bill ‘off course’
St. Paul – In recent years, the recommendations of two part-citizen panels that advise lawmakers on how to spend certain natural resources dollars have largely made it through the legislative process unadultered. If the chair
MI: NRTF funding under attack
Lansing – The successful and popular Michigan Natural Resources Trust Fund is under fire as state legislators take careful aim. A package of bills introduced by state Rep. Dave Agema, R-Grandville, seeks a constitutional amendment
MI: Legislation takes aim at several outdoors issues
Lansing – State lawmakers are discussing legislation this year aimed at recruiting new hunters, preserving public access, and other measures designed to highlight the state’s natural resources and the businesses that depend on them, officials
No deer slaughter if CWD comes
Chronic wasting disease edged closer to Pennsylvania in recent weeks, and experts say it is only a matter of time before it is discovered here.
PA: Unified vows to appeal lawsuit ruling
Harrisburg – If you were hoping that a Commonwealth Court judge dismissing the lawsuit filed by the Unified Sportsmen of Pennsylvania against the Game Commission was going to dampen the state’s raging controversy over deer
Michigan DNRE reminds anglers of mandatory ice shanty removal dates
Lansing – The Department of Natural Resources and Environment reminds anglers that the dates for mandatory ice shanty removal are approaching. Anglers are required to remove shanties as soon as the ice is unsafe to
Long before CWD discovered, concerns about Minnesota elk facility
Pine Island, Minn. – Just days after a 7-year-old elk at a captive facility north of Rochester tested positive for chronic wasting disease, DNR officials began to express concern about wild deer entering and exiting
OH: Ohio sites on risk list for Asian carp
Akron, Ohio – A new study by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers pinpoints nine Ohio waterways where Asian carp could move between the Mississippi (Ohio) River and Great Lakes watersheds. One of those locations
OH: No disease detected in Ohio’s herd
Columbus – Ohio hunters received some good news in February when the DNR Division of Wildlife and the Ohio Department of Agriculture announced that for the ninth straight year, no evidence of chronic wasting disease
