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Steve Piatt: Unpacking the New York DEC’s deer dilemma
Colonel Nathan Jessup – played by Jack Nicholson in the movie “A Few Good Men” – had it right when he defiantly stated on the witness stand, “You want us on that wall! You need

Commentary: Wisconsin’s sandhill crane season bill proof that one vote does, indeed, matter
When an organization like the Wisconsin Waterfowl Association (WWA) asks me to write an article or editorial, I rarely write it in first person. This topic, this goal, this commitment to the management of a

Wisconsin learn-to-hunt program welcomes first-time turkey hunters of all ages
Nate Harms grew up in Clark County, a hotbed of hunting activity in west-central Wisconsin.
Harms, who recently retired after teaching fifth grade at Waupaca Middle School for several years, never hunted while attending

Rare white fawn spotted on Iowa’s Indian Hills Community College campus
The Iowa Department of Natural Resources confirmed the rare sighting of a newborn white fawn on the Indian Hills Community College campus today, and is urging the public to enjoy the sight from a distance.<br

Missouri hunters take over 45,000 birds during regular spring turkey season
Preliminary data from the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) shows turkey hunters checked 45,475 birds during Missouri’s 2026 regular spring turkey season, which ran April 20 through May 10.
Top harvest counties for the

Bill upping size of otter, beaver traps advances in Illinois
A measure backed by the Illinois Trappers Association aimed at increasing the size of foothold traps used for beavers and otters in the state was scheduled for a Second Reading after passing out of the

New York DEC’s Young Forest Initiative becomes Forest Management
It has a new name but the same mission – improving both the quantity and quality of young forest growth across the majority of New York’s wildlife management areas to boost wildlife, both game and

Patrick Durkin: Wisconsin’s spring hearing voters support license fee increase
Wisconsin’s outdoors community supports paying more to operate the state’s fish and wildlife programs, but not necessarily at any price.
That’s one point to take from nearly 6,900 votes cast during mid-April’s annual conservation

Seeking story behind 100-year-old unique rack on this Wisconsin buck
Central Wisconsin real estate agent Brian Ruesch specializes in buying and selling hunting land, so he knows more than a little about deer. That’s why he didn’t hesitate to buy the mounted head hanging on