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New teal season for Wisconsin and wolf quota update
Wisconsin has a new seven-day early – and experimental – teal season beginning this fall, as well as a timber wolf harvest quota of 156 animals
American Birding Association to birders: Buy duck stamps
Duck stamps are one of the most effective conservation tools in the United States, and one birding association is calling for birders to buy the stamps.
Angler joy: July perch fishing is back
Bud Gillespie likely won’t be on Chicago’s lakefront come July 1, when hundreds – quite possibly thousands – of anglers kick off the first yellow perch season to be held on Lake Michigan since 2001
Waterfowlers have reason to get in the mood
As biologists hover above waterholes and ponds in Canada hunters here in Illinois are preparing for an annual waterfowling tradition: the July round of public waterfowl blind drawings.
Pope and Young sanctions use of lighted nocks, bow cameras
Bowhunters who go afield with lighted nocks on their arrows or who mount a video camera on their bow may now have their buck, bear, bull, or ram legally entered into the Pope and Young
Spring turkey kill leaps 20 percent
Hunters registered 41,815 turkeys this spring, which stands as a 20-percent increase from the 2013 spring harvest of 37,804 birds.
Grouse survey shows decline in population
Wisconsin ruffed grouse numbers showed another decline this spring as the popular game bird moves through its normal cycle, but this spring’s numbers are off just 1 percent statewide from last year.
$15,000 fine in striper spearing
A commercial fishing boat captain has been fined $15,000 in connection with an illegal spearfishing case in which over 900 pounds of striped bass was illegally taken.
