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Fond du Lac County sheriff’s department, Wisconsin DNR working large deer poaching case
The Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s Department and Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources game wardens are asking for help in an investigation of a deer poaching scheme involving dozens of deer and covering almost 200

Illinois DNR to double number of bobcat permits for upcoming season
Trappers and hunters hoping to secure a bobcat permit for the upcoming season in Illinois have had their chances doubled.
Following the release of a much-anticipated study by Southern Illinois University at Carbondale indicating

A new legislative committee eyeing sandhill crane hunt in Wisconsin
The latest attempt to create a Wisconsin sandhill crane season began Aug. 1 in Horicon at the inaugural meeting of the 2024 Legislative Council Study Committee on Sandhill Cranes.
One takeaway – a regulated

Special report: Wisconsin DNR’s tight budget under scrutiny
Back in January at the Wisconsin Natural Resources Board (NRB) meeting, DNR officials reminded NRB members that the bulk of fisheries, wildlife, and law enforcement funding comes from the “conservation fund,” also known as the

South Dakota Game, Fish & Parks alters August Canada goose season
The South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks Department has decreased the number of counties open for the August “management take” of locally-produced Canada geese, citing both declining population levels and conflicts with landowners as central

Steve Pollick: An ode to two remarkable Ohio outdoorsmen in Mike Budzik and Roy Kroll
If there is someone who has poured more blood, sweat, and tears into fostering sportsmen’s interests in Ohio in the last 45 years than Mike Budzik, I have not met him, or her.
“Bud,” as

Bucks of summer provide a great viewing experience
My pal Paul resides on a hobby farm that, among other things, provides a heap of open pasture space upon which to train my dogs, shoot our hunting bows at 3-dimensional targets set up against

What’s good for the meadowlark is good for North Dakota’s deer
The Western meadowlark is North Dakota’s state bird but did you know one of it’s closest relatives is the less embraced common blackbird?
Yes, meadowlarks are members of the blackbird family, which also includes

Bear harvest expected to be on par with previous seasons in New York
Bear hunters in New York taking to the woods this fall should expect things to be much like they’ve been the past two hunting seasons.
State wildlife officials, with few exceptions, expect the forthcoming