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New York’s youth turkey hunters ready to hit the woods April 20-21
New York’s annual youth turkey hunt is April 20-21. Since 2004 the hunt has provided excellent opportunities for junior hunters (ages 12-15) to go afield with an experienced adult mentor and is quite often their

Michigan man sentenced for 2018 slaying of hunter at state park
A mid-Michigan man who murdered a hunter at a state park near Lansing in 2018 has been sentenced to 22 ½ to 60 years in prison, prosecutors said Tuesday.
Thomas Olson, 35, of Grand

Minnesota’s Lance Morgan earns NWTF’s Mentor of the Year award
Minnesotan Lance Morgan traveled to Nashville, Tenn., for the National Wild Turkey Federation annual convention in February. At the convention, Morgan was presented with the Mentor of the Year award for his work with the

A trout pilgrimage to Ernest Hemingway’s “Big Two-Hearted River” (Part 1)
When I was a young newspaper reporter in Chicago with short vacations and little money, I used to drive to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to fish the Big Two-Hearted River, made famous by Ernest

Commentary: Giving away Minnesota lands shouldn’t be in the hands of a few legislators
Editor’s note: This commentary addresses current proposed legislation in St. Paul that would transfer ownership of state land around Upper Red Lake to Red Lake Nation.

Ben Moyer: Quail release an uplifting development in Pennsylvania
I count myself fortunate to have been invited to the March 19 release of wild bobwhite quail, trapped the previous day in Florida, onto the Letterkenny Army Depot in Franklin County, Pa.
It’s doubtful

Will a mild winter mean more toms for Minnesota hunters this spring?
Minnesota turkey hunters are welcoming the recent return of more spring-like weather as the season gets under way next week, on April 17.
The 2023 spring season stands proud with the second-highest harvest total

Bob Gwizdz: The best time to go fishing is whenever you can
We were fishing for Atlantic salmon, one of Jim Chamberlin’s favorite fish, on Michigan’s Torch Lake, one of his favorite fishing holes.
Atlantics, Chamberlin says, are “challenging, good fighting fish, extremely good to eat

White bass run in Ohio may come a bit early this year
While the white bass migration in Ohio peaks around mid-May, catchable numbers often linger to the end of the month. The timing and duration of the spawn is governed by the weather. No guarantee predicting