Hunting
WVs DNR creates September antlerless deer season
Charleston, W.Va. (AP) – West Virginia’s deer hunters will get to pursue their favorite quarry a little earlier this fall. Regulators have scheduled two six-day antlerless-deer hunting seasons for September, roughly a month before the
Southeast Neb. fish kill blamed on fertilizer
Hebron, Neb. (AP) – Authorities suspect anhydrous ammonia killed thousands of fish in a stretch of southeast Nebraska’s Little Blue River. Thayer County Sheriff David Lee reports several calls about the fish, which were spotted
South Dakota pheasant brood count under way
Sioux FallsS, S.D. (AP) _ There’s no shortage of interest in South Dakota’s most popular bird count. Staff in Game, Fish and Parks Department offices are eager to volunteer, and hunters looking forward to October
N. Ind. city allowing goose hunting on golf course
Rochester, Ind. (AP) – A northern Indiana city is allowing goose hunting on a golf course where a large flock has been causing damage. Round Barn Golf Club in Rochester asked the City Council to
ND pantries to resume giving venison to needy
Bismarck, N.D. (AP) – A North Dakota program that distributes venison to the needy will resume accepting deer that have been killed with lead bullets. The North Dakota Community Action Partnership, which administers the Sportsmen
Ind. hunter ed courses set for Lafayette
Lafayette, Ind. (AP) – The Indiana Department of Natural Resources will conduct hunter education classes in the Lafayette area beginning in September. The 10-hour course covers firearm safety, wildlife conservation, game care, survival, first aid
DNR seeking $24.5 million for state AMAs and WMAs
St. Paul – Conservation would receive a huge shot in the arm if the capital investment proposals made by the DNR and Board of Water and Soil Resources come to fruition. The two, along with
Climate change study foresees warmer, wetter Pa.
University Park, Pa. – A Penn State study of climate-change impacts in Pennsylvania projects a warmer, wetter commonwealth, with a longer growing season and significantly less snow by the middle of the century.
Parks funding cut out of state budget
Dayton, Ohio (AP) Dayton, Ohio (AP) – The state budget provided little help to the agency that runs Ohio’s parks and wildlife programs, currently facing a half-billion-dollar maintenance backlog. About the best news for the
