Hunting
Road Tripping for turkeys: Planning your 2014 Spring Hunts
Short of a thunderous gobble on the roost, nothing gets a spring gobbler hunter’s thoughts racing more than the words “road trip.”
NRC Youth Conservation Council member tags black bear
Austin Jones, a 16-year-old bear hunter from Mayville and a representative on the Michigan Natural Resources Commission’s Youth Conservation Council, is one happy young hunter.
More than 5,600 deer dropped in new hunt
A computer glitch and a nearly forgotten federal holiday tripped up releasing the harvest figures for Ohio’s first-ever antlerless-only/muzzleloading deer-hunting season.
Bill would deal with Ohio’s phosphorous
A Senate bill introduced earlier this year (S.B. 150) would give the Ohio DNR and the Ohio Department of Agriculture new regulatory authority over farmers that allow fertilizer to run off their fields.
In Asian carp search, the Muskingum River is the newest target
Wildlife officials and researchers have been testing the waters of an eastern Ohio river for the invasive Asian carp even though there are no signs of it yet.
Cabela’s announces plans for three new stores
Stores to open in Wisconsin, North Carolina, and British Columbia
Coalition working to defend traditions
Michigan United Conservation Clubs and the Michigan Trappers and Predator Callers Association are preparing to “Defend the Hunt” by soliciting donated deer and other animal hides
Illinois researcher discounts rut theories
The notion that the deer rut is determined by moon phases is being challenged by an Illinois scholar who has spent more than 50 years observing buck and doe behavior.
Fate of Isle Royale wolves now up to federal officials
The National Park Service still hasn’t announced what, if anything, it plans to do about the dwindling wolf population on Isle Royale.
