Hunting
Mich. trappers can begin to take badgers, raccoons
Lansing, Mich. (AP) – Michigan trappers with a fondness for fur can begin to capture badgers and other creatures. Trapping season opens Thursday in much of the Upper Peninsula and northern Lower Michigan for raccoons
Montana hunter shot by friend during Mont. bear attack
Liningston, Mont. (AP) – A hunter attacked by a grizzly bear in southern Montana also had the misfortune of being shot in the arm by a companion trying to stop the attack. The incident last
Turkey tag fiasco nets $90,000 for state youths
Madison – Turkey hunters were frustrated: They stood many hours in line, and some even missed getting the time period or zone they wanted when the state’s system of issuing leftover spring tags crashed in
DNR working around deep cuts in the state’s budget
Sturgeon Bay, Wis. – Citizens and DNR employees are learning to deal with cuts within the DNR due to the new state budget. The DNR budget for 2009-10 is $567.0 million, and for 2010-11 it
Montana officials call elk poaching inexcusable
Columbia Falls, Mont. (AP) – State game wardens are looking for a poacher who shot a 6-point bull elk and left the animal to waste in the Blankenship Bridge area north of Columbia Falls last
Montana commissioners say wolf quota unlikely to go up
Billings, Mont. (AP) – Montana wildlife commissioners say there is little likelihood the state will increase the 2009 gray wolf quota when changes to the inaugural hunting season for the animal are considered on Tuesday
Is archery 30-point buck a new record?
Shiocton, Wis. – Describing himself as a “small-town country boy,” Earl Clement, of Shiocton, hit it big-time on Saturday, Sept. 12, opening day of Wisconsin’s 2009 archery deer season. It’s not that the 42-year-old lift
Authorities nab 4 men in elk poaching cases
Bonners Ferry, Idaho (AP) – The Idaho Department of Fish and Game says a series of hotline tips helped nab four men in elk poaching investigations in northern Idaho. Agency enforcement officials say they have
Pheasant opener factors: corn, cold
Slayton, Minn. – For those hunters who stepped into the frosty morning that was the 2009 pheasant hunting opener, it seemed more like late November than mid-October; snow fell over most of southern Minnesota the
