Hook and Bullet
Coyotes blamed for limiting deer numbers
Harrisburg – Randy Santucci is not a wildlife biologist. And he doesn’t want anyone to get the wrong impression – he’s not pretending to be one.
Limited fisher-trapping season expected soon
Harrisburg – Trappers may enjoy a short but sweet season on fishers next year for the first time in more than a century.
Youth mentored hunt ends with antlered doe
State College, Pa. – Only one member of North America’s deer family commonly has females grow antlers – caribou. With white-tailed deer, bucks grow their first visible set of antlers during their second year of
Humphries appointed to lead the new DNRE
Lansing – Rebecca Humphries has been appointed director of the new Michigan Department of Natural Resources and Environment (DNRE). Gov. Jennifer Granholm announced in October her commitment to combining the Department of Natural Resources and
NRB’s CWD team to ask DNR for more ‘action’ on disease
Madison – The state Natural Resources Board’s CWD subcommittee will report to the full board Jan. 26 that it wants to see a more “proactive” CWD plan from the DNR that could include sharpshooting and
Legislators ask DNR to review overwinter goals for whitetails
Madison – Legislators have rejected the DNR’s proposal for an increase in overwinter deer population goals in 13 units and have asked the agency to come back with a proposal for broader goal increases in
L-SOHC pitches projects as debate rages
Brooklyn Center, Minn. – The Lessard-Sams Outdoor Heritage Council last week recommended to the Legislature about $56.2 million in projects for the second round of funding from the constitutional amendment voters approved in 2008. Later
DNR ‘push’ of walleye stamp to continue in 2010
Associate Editor Brooklyn Center, Minn. – It wasn’t a particularly awe-inspiring opening year for Minnesota’s walleye stamp, a voluntary purchase option for state anglers that forwards $5 to walleye stocking in the state. About 7,000
