Hook and Bullet
Quick start for grants program
DNR receives legacy grant proposals for five times more funding than is available St. Paul – The DNR received more than $16.6 million worth of applications from local sporting clubs and other groups for grants
LqP goose hunting needs Arctic blast
Watson, Minn. – Time is running out on the Lac qui Parle Wildlife Management Area goose hunt, and still the “big push” of Canada geese to the area has yet to arrive. Goose hunting in
UPDATED – Trophy buck illegally shot in Minnesota
St. Paul – Minnesota conservation officers last week seized a record- book deer rack and on Thursday morning filed poaching charges against a man from Cannon Falls, Minn., in the case. The Minnesota DNR investigation
2 new Wyoming cases of chronic wasting disease
Buffalo, Wyo. (AP) – The Wyoming Game and Fish Department says chronic wasting disease has turned up in two northern Wyoming hunt areas for the first time. The department lab in Laramie confirmed this week
Private land gator hunt in Mississippi
Vicksburg, Miss. (AP) – Warren County led Mississippi’s second controlled alligator hunt on private land with 24 of the 59 killed, including the largest gator of the season – a 12-foot, 9-inch gator hauled in
Deer poaching leads to record Neb. fine
Lincoln, Neb.(AP) – The largest poaching fine in Nebraska since electronic court records began being kept in 1996 has been levied in Cherry County. Last week, three men from Merriman were ordered by a Cherry
Man dies after shooting self while deer hunting in MN
Deer River, Minn. (AP) – A Minnetonka man is dead after accidentally shooting himself in the chest during Minnesota’s deer opener weekend. The Itasca County sheriff says 77-year-old Daniel Otto Cermak was hunting north of
Wyoming makes argument for managing gray wolves
Cheyenne, Wyo. (AP) – In a bid to take over management of gray wolves, Wyoming argues there’s no biological reason that the predators should be treated as a trophy game species throughout the entire state.
Officials eye fish passage on Yellowstone River
Billings, Mont. (AP) – State and federal officials are considering ways to create fish passage at Cartersville Diversion Dam on the Yellowstone River near Forsyth to help pallid sturgeon, an endangered species. Jim Darling, fisheries
