Hunting
Conservation groups threaten suit over oil shale in 3 states
DENVER (AP) _ Environmental groups have threatened to sue the federal government to block plans for commercial oil shale development on nearly 2 million acres of public land in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming. Eleven groups
MFL landowners get new accreditation
Madison – Dec. 16 was an important date for Wisconsin’s woodland owners enrolled in the Managed Forest Law. On that day, the SmartWood Program of the Rainforest Alliance awarded Forest Stewardship Council accreditation to more
Forest Service to alter road-use plan
Portage, Wis. – The Wisconsin Wildlife Federation says its appeal of the Forest Service’s Travel Management Plan has been settled with a three-year window in which public notice will supercede most enforcement on closed roads.
Feds officially move to ‘relist’ wolves
Washington — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service made official the “relisting” of gray wolves in the Midwest, where they’d been removed from the Endangered Species List just a year and a half ago. At
Battle looming on Sunday hunting in PA
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,
Arizona to submit desert conservation plan
Tucson, Ariz. (AP) – A plan to conserve habitat for many rare or endangered species in southern Arizona is about submitted to a federal agency for review. The fifth draft of the plan is aimed
Minn. lawmakers mulls lead bullet ban
Moorehead, Minn. (AP) _ Beth Siverhus has hunted deer since 1976, and for the first time next year she plans to use copper-coated bullets instead of lead. That’s because the Warroad woman also spends time
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
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
