Hunting
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
Bighorn sheep could be taken to other states
Helena, Mont. (AP) – As many as 85 bighorn sheep could be shipped from Montana to Utah and Washington under a proposal endorsed by the Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commission. The sheep would come
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
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
Deer on western Bighorns has chronic wasting
Cody, Wyo. (AP) – A mule deer buck killed on the west slope of the Bighorn Mountains has tested positive for chronic wasting disease. The buck was killed last month in hunt area 46, in
Reckless boaters pushing fishermen off Wolf River
Dan Hansen Contributing Writer Fremont, Wis. – The annual walleye and white bass spawning runs have, for decades, drawn thousands of anglers to the Wolf River. However, many veteran Wolf River anglers now stay away
