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Illinois Mixed Bag: DNR seeking help with turkey brood surveys
DNR is looking for volunteer citizen scientists to assist with wild turkey brood surveys to aid biologists in monitoring turkey population trends and reproductive success. Participants are asked to report young turkeys, adult females, and
New York Cuffs & Collars: Fox bites multiple children in Montgomery County
New York cuffs and collars are field reports from New York DEC Officers. These reports are from the June 28, 2024, edition of Outdoor News.
Wisconsin Cuffs & Collars: 18 anglers caught fishing without a license on Lower Fox River
Wisconsin cuffs and collars are field reports from Wisconsin DNR. These reports are from the June 28, 2024, edition of Outdoor News.
Wisconsin State Roundup: Thoughts on Vilas and Oneida deer herds, state turkey season structure
Vilas and Oneida counties are up this week as the third part of Steve Heiting’s five-part series reviewing the deer situation in 10 northern counties.
Heiting opens with a discussion from two loggers on
Notes off a soiled cuff: Would free fishing, hunting licenses help fill critical positions in Pennsylvania?
Like in Pennsylvania, Michigan’s leaders are having trouble attracting enough people to fill critical roles to protect society, so they have come up with a novel idea. A lawmaker there has introduced a bill to
Understand a river’s flow to catch more fish
Rivers are seen by many anglers as mysterious and complicated places to fish – especially, where to find fish. They’re quite different from lakes. And if you tally the factors or conditions that affect rivers
Patrick Durkin: Registering nonmotorized recreational ‘assets’ makes sense in Wisconsin
Those of us with long memories perked up in April when voters at Wisconsin’s annual conservation hearings supported registering nonmotorized recreational “assets,” which often go adrift or are left stranded on weak ice.
Imagine
Northern Wisconsin’s deer herd: Vilas, Oneida counties losing their popularity with deer hunters
Vilas and Oneida counties in north-central Wisconsin are in lake country with more than 2,400 waterbodies between them. Those lakes attract tourists and the region is busy in summer.
For many years those counties
Finding the perfect setup for catching summer saugeye
Catching a saugeye in the summer is an ongoing lesson in humility. The fruitless casting in July can get old. Soon after a lackluster trip I return with a new idea, only to feel like
