Hunting
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
U.S. Rep. Tom Tiffany offers update on wolf delisting bill
U.S. Rep. Tom Tiffany, who represents citizens in an area of northern Wisconsin containing the state’s largest wolf population, briefly attended a Sept. 23 Conservation Congress Wolf Committee meeting with an update on legislation that
Wisconsin DNR defends lack of population goal in wolf plan
Wisconsin wildlife officials defended their decision not to set a hard cap on the state’s wolf population in a new management plan in front of a Republican-controlled legislative committee saying a firm limit doesn’t reflect
Minnesota DNR’s small-game survey shows declining hunters, fewer survey responses
The Minnesota DNR released the results of its annual small game survey on Oct. 2 that showed the number of small-game hunters in Minnesota in 2022 dropped by more than 5,700 license sales from the
Wisconsin Natural Resources Board appointees don’t support hard cap on wolf population
The plan doesn’t establish a population goal, instead recommending that the population remain at around 1,000 wolves.
