Hunting
State fishing license sales slowing, but remain strong
St. Paul – After a surge to start the year, fishing license sales have moderated. As of earlier this week, anglers had purchased about 758,500 licenses, which compares to about 767,300 at the same time
ECOs, forest rangers awaiting arbitration
Albany – New York’s environmental conservation officers, state park police, forest rangers and SUNY campus police may reach a contract settlement through binding arbitration later this year. That’s the good news. The bad news is
Turkey harvest down from 2009 season
Milladore, Wis. – The DNR Turkey Management Committee met June 16 at the Mead Wildlife Area to review preliminary harvest figures for the spring season and learned that hunters registered 47,709 turkeys – down 9.6
Four counties considered for rifle hunting
Albany – A pair of legislative bills would expand New York’s rifle hunting zone into four more counties – Cortland, Wyoming and parts of Ontario and Chautauqua. The bills are currently held up in the
Former DNR head joins Blago trial
Chicago — The man who spent only a few weeks as DNR director last year and subsequently received a healthy bump in his state pension has become part of the federal trial of former Gov.
Time to count points in Zone 3
St. Paul – Big changes are in the offing for some deer hunters in the state this fall. Among them: Adult hunters in the southeast portion of the state (permit areas 338-349) won’t be able
Spinning-wing decoys banned at Shiawassee
Lansing – The state Natural Resource Commission voted earlier this month to ban the use of spinning-wing decoys at the Shiawassee River State Game Area, but postponed until its July 8 meeting a vote on
Anglers in the know are worried about the Mon
Pittsburgh — Recent news that the Monongahela River made American Rivers’ “Most Endangered Rivers” list didn’t come as a shock to muskie angler Dave Myers, but it fueled his sense of dread.
Smaller protected slot on Red means more ‘keepers’
Bemidji, Minn. – A change implemented earlier this week could make it a bit easier to catch a four-fish limit of walleyes from Upper Red Lake: Beginning Tuesday, the protected walleye slot on the big
