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Wisconsin State Roundup: Audit needed on DNR spending before a license fee increase is approved
Veteran reporter Tim Eisele, in this issue, dips a toe into the swirling mess that is the DNR’s budget situation. Despite the depth of Eisele’s reporting, we’re just barely scratching the surface of the DNR’s

Wisconsin research indicates hunting, trapping has little impact on coyote populations
Coyotes are doing well in Wisconsin and throughout their range across the Continental U.S. and Canada. Despite liberal regulations, hunting and trapping don’t have any significant impact on coyote numbers.
These are two takeaways

Minnesota hunters asked not to shoot ear-tagged, radio-collared research bears
The Minnesota bear hunting season opens Sunday, Sept. 1, and the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is once again asking hunters to avoid shooting marked research bears. These bears are marked with distinctively large, colorful

Redwood Falls man is Minnesota DNR’s 2023 volunteer firearms safety instructor of the year
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has named Jerry Ludwig, of Redwood Falls, as the 2023 volunteer firearms safety instructor of the year.
Ludwig has been a volunteer instructor since the early 2000s, having

Something’s bruin’ in Southwestern New York’s South Valley State Forest
Black bears in New York State don’t always get a lot of attention from hunters. In fact, most of the harvest comes from whitetail hunters who encounter a bruin while pursuing deer and take advantage

New York’s Moreau Lake State Park grows via 860-acre Big Bend Preserve
A long-anticipated 860-acre expansion of Moreau Lake State Park, in Saratoga County, N.Y., has come to fruition.
In July, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced the opening of the Big Bend Preserve at the park which

New York Mixed Bag: Women’s Bowhunting 101 workshop offered at Camp Sagamore
Raquette Lake, N.Y. — The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s Becoming an Outdoors Woman program is offering a special bowhunting workshop Oct. 4-6, at the Great Camp Sagamore, in the Adirondacks.

Dan Ladd: Get informed before New York’s hunting seasons arrive
If I had my way, every sportsmen in New York thoroughly would read two publications… three actually. These would be the one you’re holding in your hands (or reading electronically), along with the state’s hunting,

Notes off a soiled cuff: All quiet on campaign to reintroduce pine martens in Pennsylvania
We’ve been asked several times recently for an update on the Game Commission’s campaign to reintroduce pine martens in the state. Seems like the commissioners who tabled the motion don’t want to discuss it further.<br