Hunting
Anglers make agency’s stupidest criminals list
Harrisburg – Tom Kamerzel, law-enforcement chief for the Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission, couldn’t keep from laughing when he briefed the agency’s board on a pair of fishing license revocations he wanted them to approve.
Veterans find healing on the water
Sun Valley, Idaho (AP) – Standing at the edge of a clear pond in the Idaho mountains on a cold day in early October, former U.S. Marine Angel Gomez made a timid cast with his
Antler frenzy leads to possible Wyo. rules
Cheyenne, Wyo. (AP) – The chance to find an enormous and valuable set of antlers shed by a mighty bull elk or mule deer has been drawing ever-larger crowds of people from around the region
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
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
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
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
