Hunting
Group sues to force EPA to clean up Chesapeake Bay
Washington (AP) – A conservation group filed a federal lawsuit Monday to force the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to enforce the law and clean up the polluted Chesapeake Bay, citing 25 years of failure to
The year in review: 2008
While there were plenty of significant outdoors stories in the past 12 months, the biggest one had to be passage of the dedicated sales tax amendment. Ten years in the making, it passed by 56
With dedicated funding in the bag, what now?
St. Paul – For the past 10 years, the most dominant outdoors-related theme at the Legislature has been dedicated funding for natural resources. While outdoors proponents worked on other issues, too – funding for wildlife
250,000 whitetails: a hard mark to hit
DNR Staff Reports Athens, Ohio – The prospects of taking a quarter million deer off the Ohio landscape this year were looking good right up until Dec. 22. That was the day after the bonus
Battle looming on Sunday hunting
Harrisburg – The appointment of a Sunday-hunting opponent as chairman of the Senate’s Game and Fisheries Committee has thrown a monkey wrench into efforts to eliminate the state’s last remaining Blue Law. Senator-elect Richard Alloway,
Falconry: An ancient art still done in state
Port Matilda, Pa. – The pigeon fluttered his wings and, from a half-mile away, the slight motion caught the migrating hawk’s attention. The hawk turned his head, adjusted his wings, and began to descend toward
Zebra mussels now infest Susquehanna
Lancaster, Pa. – Zebra mussels have finally shown up in the lower Susquehanna River, potentially threatening the river’s prized smallmouth bass and other game fish. If they get established here the way they have in
Hunters concerned about the sale of wildlife land
Mankato, Minn. (AP) – Wildlife habitat on Minnesota’s private land has ebbed and flowed with the vagaries of farm programs and politics. But most Minnesotans believe that once an area was purchased by or donated
Deer hunt ends with fatality in Beaver
Pittsburgh – Tragedy marred the final day of firearms deer season with the shooting death of a Beaver County hunter who was standing next to his 9-year-old son. Duane Smith, 35, of Frankfort Springs, was
