Hunting
Debate over bear bill to expand hound hunting heats up
Madison – It remains to be seen just what the Senate Natural Resources Committee will do with a black bear bill that would expand hound hunting, but testimony last Thursday made it clear that many
Road kill bill on the move
Madison – A proposal to relax the rules on picking up road-killed bears, turkeys, and many small-game species recently passed the Assembly, and it could become a law by spring. Assembly Bill 548 would allow
Age of record-setting Wisconsin sturgeon?
Wisconsin DNR says fish tops 100 Oshkosh, Wis. (AP) – A Wisconsin wildlife official says a state record-setting sturgeon speared last weekend during the state’s Lake Winnebago season may have been more than 100 years
Turkey proposal sparks debate
Madison – Mike Rogers says it no longer matters whether it was legislators or hunters who came up with a proposal to drastically change the spring turkey season; now that the bill is out in
DNR, MDHA eye feeding ban, poaching penalty hike
St. Paul – The DNR wants to make it illegal for people to feed wildlife recreationally from Sept. 1 to Dec. 31 each year. It also wants to increase the penalties for hunters caught hunting
Big fish! Age of record-setting Wisconsin sturgeon?
Oshkosh, Wis. (AP) – A Wisconsin wildlife official says a record-setting sturgeon speared over the weekend may have been more than 100 years old. Ron Bruch, a fisheries supervisor with the Wisconsin DNR says officials
Oakland County archer arrows 200-class buck
Sylvan Lake, Mich. – Brian Hughes knew he was in trouble. The object of three years of hunting – a 200-class white-tailed buck – was somewhere nearby and Hughes just couldn’t bring himself to climb
DCNR forestry chief blasts PGC plan
Harrisburg – The Pennsylvania Game Commission’s decision to cut back on doe-hunting seasons in four management units might make many hunters happy, but it didn’t please the state’s top forester.
Cox continues fight to keep Asian carp out of Great Lakes
Grand Rapids, Mich. – Although the U.S. Supreme Court denied Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox’s request for a preliminary injunction to temporarily close the locks on the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal to keep Asian
