Hunting
Missouri governor bags 8-point buck, donates meat
KAHOKA, Mo. (AP) _ Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has shot an eight-point buck, and is donating the meat to an area food bank. Nixon’s office said in a news release that the governor killed the
Details Emerge in Killing of PA Game Warden
By MARK SCOLFORO, Associated Press GETTYSBURG, Pa. (AP) _ A felon caught poaching deer and a state game warden who had him partly handcuffed engaged in a “ferocious exchange of gunfire” that killed the officer
PA Game Commission Praises State Police for Support of Slain CO David Grove
HARRISBURG – Pennsylvania Game Commission Executive Director Carl G. Roe, on behalf of the entire agency, today offered praise for the Pennsylvania State Police’s swift resolution involving the killing of Wildlife Conservation Officer (WCO) David
PA: Game Commission WCO Grove Killed in the Line of Duty
Harrisburg – Pennsylvania Game Commission Wildlife Conservation Officer (WCO) David L. Grove was shot and killed in the line of duty while on patrol around 10:30 p.m., on Nov. 11, along Shrivers Road in Freedom
Wis. DNR asks hunters to turn in wildlife data
MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The state Department of Natural Resources is again reminding deer hunters to file wildlife observations online. The DNR asks that bow hunters and hunters scouting for the upcoming gun season to
Firearms deer hunt may top last year
St. Paul — Firearms deer hunters after opening weekend are on track to kill as many or more deer than they did last year. Registration for Saturday and Sunday this year and last was 85,000
NY: Shakeup at DEC
Albany – DEC Commissioner Pete Grannis arrived amid skepticism from hunters and anglers more than three years ago. He departed last month in the wake of a leaked internal memo criticizing proposed cuts to the
Elk ‘depopulation’ bill approaching $1 million
Groups still concerned about deer movement into contaminated former elk farm Rochester, Minn. — A year after a herd of nearly 560 elk in southeastern Minnesota was euthanized because of chronic wasting disease concerns, reports
Tennessee men fined for grouse overlimits
Phillips, Wis. — Three nonresident hunters from Tennessee recently were fined nearly $500 apiece for allegedly overbagging on ruffed grouse in northern Wisconsin. And it was a warden from another state – who himself was
