Hunting
Despite Kentucky success, don’t look for elk in Ohio soon
Columbus – While our brethren to the south have rebuilt their elk population to a sizable herd, don’t look for the species to return to Ohio anytime soon. Kentucky’s elk repopulation program has been well
Senate seeks gas/oil drilling in state parks
Columbus (AP) – The Ohio Senate wants to allow drilling for oil and natural gas in state parks to help pay for maintenance costs as part of the two-year state budget plan. The Republican-controlled Senate
Grand Lake saugeye project capped by release of 23,000
St. Marys – An Ohio DNR project to stock Grand Lake St. Marys with a new generation of sport fish culminated with the release of 23,000 sterile (triploid) saugeye fingerlings on May 29. A saugeye
Feds declare salmon endangered on 3 Maine rivers
Portland, Maine (AP) – The federal government is listing wild Atlantic salmon as endangered in three of Maine’s largest rivers while designating thousands of miles of rivers and lakes as critical habitat for one of
Pa. hunting licenses on sale under new system
Harrisburg, Pa. (AP) – Pennsylvania Game Commission officials say a new automated license system will make it easier – and quicker – for hunters to get ready for deer season. Hunting and furtaker licenses for
Va. fishermen plead guilty to rockfish trafficking
Greenbelt, Md. (AP) – A St. Mary’s County seafood company owner has pleaded guilty to creating false records and transporting illegally harvested wildlife. Robert Lumpkins, who owns Golden Eye Seafood LLC, falsely recorded the amount
Wis. officials: bass catch-release works too well
Spooner, Wis. (AP) – Wisconsin wildlife officials say bass catch-and-release might be working too well. The Department of Natural Resources says a mail survey of bass anglers found they kept only 550,000, or 6 percent,
O’Fallon, IL man bags five species of wild turkey
O’Fallon, Ill. (AP) – William “Slim” Boente and several of his buddies are considered royalty in the turkey hunting world. Boente, a 42-year-old construction worker from O’Fallon, recently completed the Royal Slam of turkey hunting:
SC spear fisherman: Fla. boats take too many fish
Charleston, S.C. (AP) – Some South Carolina fishermen say spear fishermen from Florida are exploiting the rules when they take thousands of pounds of game fish from the state’s artificial reefs. The South Carolina fishermen
