Hunting
Deer movement study to begin in northwestern Minnesota
The Minnesota DNR and University of Minnesota will launch a pilot research project in late January, 2011, with the aim of gaining a better understanding of movements and habitat use of white-tailed deer in northwestern
MN: Session descends on state Capitol
St. Paul – With a $6.2 billion budget deficit staring them in the face, lawmakers convened at the state Capitol on Tuesday to kick off a session featuring a huge deficit and a reshuffled political
MI: Granholm paves way for state moose hunt
Lansing — Attention hunters: A moose hunt may be coming to a site near you. Michigan moved a step closer to adding even more diversity to its in-state hunting opportunities when Gov. Jennifer Granholm signed
PA: Hurting hunter sues man who shot him
Johnstown, Pa. – At 6-foot-3, 230 pounds, and wearing a fluorescent orange hat, David Bruzda still wonders how he was mistaken for a turkey on state game lands near Conemaugh Dam last spring. Bruzda, 19,
PA: Citing report, league tells PGC back off deer
Pittsburgh – A leader of one of the state’s largest sportsmen’s groups has called on Pennsylvania’s game commissioners to moderate their deer-management program based on information that has recently been presented by an independent wildlife
OH: Bonus weekend firearms kill is up over last year
Columbus – Hunters killed 21,064 deer on Dec. 18-19, during the extra weekend of gun hunting, according to the DNR Division of Wildlife. The extra weekend of gun hunting was first offered in 2006 in
MI: Forest plan could include gun-hunt ban
Cadillac, Mich. – Gun hunting and snowmobiling could be outlawed in portions of the Huron-Manistee National Forests. That’s one option being considered in a court-mandated review of the Huron-Manistee Land and Resource Management Plan Revision
OH: Three locked up bucks found dead in shallow Ohio waters
Pomeroy, Ohio – The incidence of two bucks locking horns and eventually succumbing to death is not all that unusual. But, three bucks locked in a death struggle is quite rare. That’s what Brien Burke
OH: Erie ice anglers could get early start
Put-In-Bay, Ohio – With this December’s unseasonably cold temperatures, ice has begun forming on western Lake Erie already. In fact, on Dec. 13, one day after the Miller Ferry quit running, high winds from the
