Hunting
USFWS: State hunter number continue slide
Sportsmen and women across the country celebrated recently when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service released preliminary results from a survey indicating that participation in hunting, fishing, and wildlife-related recreation was on the rise
2nd deer with CWD is found
A second Pennsylvania deer has been found to have had chronic wasting disease.
Experts advise hunters: Don't overreact to presence of CWD
The discovery this fall of chronic wasting disease in two deer on a game farm in southeastern Pennsylvania has hunters wondering what to do
Bull elk hunters have 100 percent success
Charlie Ulrich eased up over the top of the ridge and saw three bull elk in the scrubby reclaimed strip mine below.
Whitetail kill trails last year’s harvest
Hunters during the first part of the firearms season killed about 134,000 whitetails, which is about 6 percent below what they had killed at the same time last year.
147 wolves for early season hunters
The state’s first-ever regulated wolf-hunting season is in the bag. And so are 147 of the canines.
Letter from U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources
Thomas O. Melius, regional director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service at Ft. Snelling, sent the following letter last month to John Jaschke, executive director of the Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources.
Idaho hunters kill 96 wolves
Idaho officials say hunters have killed 96 wolves so far in the 2012-2013 hunting season.
Gun hunters have solid first weekend
Although the number of deer taken during the first weekend of gun season far eclipsed last year’s total, few of those taken during the hunt were considered “trophy” bucks. Which suggests Illinois hunters are less-picky
