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Minnesota’s statewide fishing and hunting report for Oct. 4, 2023
Still no fall transition with summer-like temperatures. A look at the fishing and hunting report from across Minnesota on Oct. 4, 2023.

‘Tis the season: Be safe – and leave the drone at home this Illinois hunting season
I had to chuckle – chuckle, not laugh – and raise an eyebrow at a line written by Richard Perry over in the Letters to the Editor section.
Perry, of Brownstown, spilled a lot

Measure allows hunters to house Duck Stamp on phones
Conservation organizations and duck hunters applauded the Sept. 20 passage of the Duck Stamp Modernization Act (H.R. 2872) by the U.S. House of Representatives.
The bill provides U.S. waterfowlers with the flexibility of possessing

Language fixed to allow funding for hunter ed, archery in schools program, bill headed to Biden’s desk
Both chambers of congress rallied together in late September to fix language from the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act of 2022 that allowed the U.S. Department of Education to pull certain federal funding from schools that
Illinois Mixed Bag: DNR has delays in early trout stocking
The 2023 Illinois fall trout season will open Oct. 21 at 59 ponds, lakes, and streams throughout the state, but DNR has warned anglers that warm weather will delay some early stockings this fall.

Three faces of October: Make the most of this sometimes-misunderstood month for whitetails
The monster 8-point had clearly not read the calendar. He was destroying trees, hog-troughing scrapes, and badgering does like it was peak rut. Instead, it was Oct. 8, and I remember the date because my

A more frequent ‘spec’-tacle: White-fronted goose sightings on the rise in Minnesota
Steve Cordts has a plan, albeit a tentative one.
In the rafters of his garage, stowed away in decoy bags, rest four dozen white-fronted goose shells, decoys that have neither seen the light of

Want advice on bowhunting elk? Don’t ask Dean Bortz
Wanna know what I’m never going to do? Write a book about how to bowhunt for elk.
It’s become fairly obvious that I don’t know how to bowhunt elk and I don’t think anyone

Small wetlands project enhances habitat of New York’s Montezuma Wetlands Complex
The New York Department of Environmental Conservation, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), Ducks Unlimited, and other partners recently completed the restoration of two wetlands on either side of the Seneca River, a 61-mile