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State roundup: Wisconsin turkey hunters off to a fast start, and a frustrating litter find
It looks like turkey hunters are off to a good start on the 2025 spring season, judging by early harvest numbers for the first season.
According to Taylor Finger, the DNR’s turkey and waterfowl

Kroening pleads guilty to two counts in southeast Wis. deer poaching case
Jessica Jill Kroening, 37, of West Bend (formerly of Brownsville), the adult female suspect in a southeast Wisconsin three-county poaching case that involved more than 100 dead deer, pleaded guilty to two counts and had

98 turkeys ‘tagged’ for Phase II of Wisconsin study
The second stage of a two-year GPS tracking study in Wisconsin designed to gain insights into hen turkey nesting behavior and movements, while also measure poult survival, is off to a strong start.
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Doe harvested in western Minnesota aged at 16-1⁄2; how rare is such a deer?
Every year that a wild white-tailed deer lives in Minnesota likely means it survived a few close calls.
There’s the threat of a tough winter, as well as encounters with predators, vehicles, and hunters.

Good turkey season expected in many parts of New York
New York’s annual spring turkey hunting season is once again May 1-31 and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation is confident that hunters in many areas of the state can expect some gobbler

Tom Venesky: Selective science drives recent Pennsylvania Game Commission board votes
One of the pillars of the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation is to base wildlife management decisions on scientific data.
The Pennsylvania Game Commission, along with many state wildlife agencies, operate according to

Commentary: Bureaucratic cooperation needed to solve conservation shortfalls
Bureaucracies, by design, resist change.
They aren’t open to new ideas. Max Weber described it this way: “The fully developed bureaucratic apparatus compares with other organizations exactly as does the machine with the non-mechanical

Turkey hunting accident almost 40 years ago still puts life in perspective
“The second Monday of the Ohio spring turkey hunting season, May 5, 1986, will be riveted in my memory forever. It was the day I was shot.”
That quote began a feature story titled

New York’s statewide fishing and hunting report on April 24, 2025
Turkey season on the horizon, and fishing picks up. Here’s a look at New York’s fishing and hunting report on April 24, 2025.