Hunting
Pennsylvania hunters bagged 3,458 bears in 2008
Harrisburg, Pa. (AP) — Bear hunters had a good year in Pennsylvania in 2008. According to figures released Wednesday by the state Game Commission, hunters took a total of 3,458 bears. That number includes bears
DNR offers outdoor skills classes for women
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Becoming an Outdoors Woman (BOW) program is hosting its annual winter workshop March 6 – 8 at Deep Portage Environmental Learning Center in Hackensack. “The winter workshop is
NWTF gets elk tag: Hard feelings erupt
Harrisburg – When the Pennsylvania Game Commission awarded the state’s first-ever “Governor’s Tag” – an elk license to be auctioned off to the highest bidder – to the National Wild Turkey Federation, it was heralded
Minnesota to see jump in P-R, D-J excise taxes
St. Paul – With generally bad news surrounding funding for state departments for the upcoming fiscal cycle, the Minnesota DNR received some good news recently: Grant funding available through two federal programs – known as
Flint Hills gobblers plan 8th annual spring turkey hunting clinic
On March 28, the Flint Hills Gobblers Chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation and the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks Hunter Education Program will conduct its 8th Annual Spring Turkey Hunting Clinic. The
Spring turkey permits, special hunts applications available online
The 2009 spring turkey season runs April 8-May 31, and hunters across the state are already making preparations. Turkey permits allow hunters to use a shotgun, crossbow, or bow throughout the regular season. Archery-only and
LOHC reviews huge forest proposal
St. Paul – A proposal unveiled Monday to the Lessard Outdoor Heritage Council would protect in perpetuity more than 187,000 acres of forests and wetlands in northern Minnesota. The catch: It would consume more than
Mille Lacs regs to remain intact
St. Paul – Fishing interests around Minnesota’s popular Lake Mille Lacs suggested and state officials agreed: simple is best. Despite a hefty increase in the walleye poundage allotment for state-licensed anglers this year, the regulation
New Mexico bill would end killing of wildlife on private land
Santa Fe, N.M. (AP) — When a Cimarron area rancher last year killed more than three dozen pronghorn antelope that had been chowing down on his winter-wheat fields, he was acting within the law. Now,
