Hunting
Additional DEC layoffs on hold?
Albany – Additional layoffs within DEC – including the Division of Fish, Wildlife and Marine Resources – haven’t yet occurred for a variety of reasons. The chief factor is that the payroll and staffing issues
Despite tough winter, so far, so good for pheasants in ’09
Madelia, Minn. – Pheasants in Minnesota did a good job of weathering a winter that proved to be more like winters of old, and till now, have had a spring conducive to pulling off a
Is JFC action an access threat?
Madison – Sportsmen rallied last week to a call to arms, so to speak, from conservation leaders who claim that recent Joint Finance Committee action jeopardizes hunting, fishing, and trapping access to some future public
Decker ‘uncased gun’ idea might reach budget bill
More liberal group deer-hunting law to follow Madison – A bill that would give hunters up to one hour to tag a “group-killed” deer, allow them to carry an uncased firearm in a vehicle, and
Obama taps Fish and Wildlife veteran for agency
Salt Lake City (AP) – A veteran U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service administrator is President Barack Obama’s nominee to head up the agency. Sam D. Hamilton is director of the agency’s Southeast Region, based in
Committee to look at EAB alternative
Baraboo, Wis. – If legislative hearings on the deer season in April and the DNR’s decision to cancel earn-a-buck rules for 2009 were the death knell for EAB, the nail in the coffin could be
WVa DNR set to celebrate free fishing weekend
Charrleston, W.Va. (AP) – The West Virginia Division of Natural Resources is opening up the state’s rivers and streams for free fishing this weekend. The two-day event caps off a series of events as part
State finalizes agreement to protect 187,000 acres of forest
St. Paul – More than 187,000 acres of industrial forest land in north-central Minnesota will be protected under an agreement signed last week by the DNR and Blandin Paper Company. The tract, which will be
Conservation groups hope support of administration helps move CWA
Washington – Conservation groups were quick to praise the Obama administration’s support for the proposed Clean Water Restoration Act last month, a federal bill that is said to restore waters protections awarded by the 1972
