Hunting
2010: The Year in Review
Even in the 21st Century, old-school outdoors stories continue to intrigue Minnesotans. News reports of cougar sightings, poachers, and tantalizing big bucks kept outdoorsmen and women churning through pages of Outdoor News the past year.
DNR: Wildlife division in good shape
Columbus – Though the DNR Division of Wildlife is hardly awash in cash, the agency is still solvent enough to ride out the current economic storm. In its annual financial report, the Wildlife Division reports
4 ice-fishing tourneys are debuting in state
Greensburg, Pa. – Ice is no good on roads, no good on windshields, no good on sidewalks.
No charges filed after fatal hunter shootout
Punxsutawney, Pa. – A Summerville bear hunter who killed a property owner in a trespassing dispute will not be charged, according to Pennsylvania State Police, who said the shooting was determined to be justified.
Susquehanna River is tops in intersex bass
Harrisburg – If anyone needed more confirmation that the Susquehanna is in trouble, it came recently in a finding by federal scientists that the river has a higher percentage of “intersex” smallmouth bass than almost
Deteriorating conditions for pheasants
Madelia, Minn. – The 2009-10 pheasant-hunting season is yet to draw to end, and already, state wildlife officials are concerned about next year’s crop of birds. The primary culprit is a winter storm that dumped
Venison donations are up over last year’s total
DNR Report – Columbus – Ohio deer hunters have donated more than 95,500 pounds of venison to local food banks so far this deer season, according to Farmers and Hunters Feeding the Hungry and the
Wyoming man pleads guilty to shooting bald eagle
Cheyenne, Wyo. (AP) – A Northern Arapaho man pleaded guilty Tuesday in tribal court to killing a bald eagle in 2005 for use in his tribe’s Sun Dance. Winslow Friday, who is in his mid-20s,
DNR considering changes for ’10 whitetail season
Madison -_Coming on the heels of a 2009 gun season deer kill that saw a “soft-number” drop of 29 percent in overall harvest from last year, DNR wildlife biologists are looking at aerial surveys and
