Hunting
Vorhies pleads no contest to poaching charges
Basin, Wyo. (AP) – A former Greybull man has pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor poaching charge and no contest to three more. Gary Vorhies, 47, was accused of killing a palmated deer in Big Horn
Iowa man sentenced for illegal hunting
Cedar Rapids, Iowa (AP) – A Decorah man has been sentenced to one year in prison for allowing illegally hunted deer to be taken from Iowa. The U.S. attorney’s office says 51-year-old Dale Hogenson was
Hunter sentenced in death of hunting companion
St. Albans, Vt. (AP) – A Georgia man has been sentenced to one year in prison for the 2007 shooting death of his hunting companion. The Burlington Free Press reports that 39-year-old Timothy Madden pleaded
Jury says Vermont man didn’t interfere with hunter
Barre, Vt. (AP) – A jury has acquitted a Vermont man who faced a rare charge of interfering with a hunter. Forty-two-year-old Mark Codling of Cabot was accused of intentionally interfering with 14-year-old Tyler Barnett
Idaho mulls special wolf tag proposal
Boise, Idaho (AP) – State fish and game officials are considering a plan to issue special wolf hunting tags that would be auctioned to raise money for conservation projects and wolf management. The Idaho Fish
Long turkey-hunting season opens in Nebraska
Lincoln, Neb. (AP) – The fall turkey season is under way in Nebraska, and this one will be longer than hunters have enjoyed in the past. The fall season opened Tuesday. Holders of fall turkey
DNR ‘secretary bill’ set for Assembly floor
Madison – Two bills that would return the authority to appoint the secretary of the DNR to the Natural Resources Board moved one step forward the first week in September. Assembly Bill 138, authored by
Archers get first crack at state’s deer herd
St. Paul – The longest deer season kicks off Saturday, when bowhunters hit the woods. DNR officials expect nearly 100,000 of them to hunt during the season and, if this year is like those in
In first two weeks, bear hunters exceed ’09 tally
Aitkin, Minn. – Hunters have killed more bears during the first two weeks of this season than they did in all of 2008. As of Monday, the harvest was 2,183 bears; the total kill last
