Hunting
PA’s Deer Management Assistance Program permits selling out on game lands
The Pennsylvania Game Commission implemented the Deer Management Assistance Program on select state game lands for the first time this year, and it didn’t take hunters long to jump at the opportunity.
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Lessons learned from a master of squirrel hunting
My friend Earl Jeter, of Champaign, Ill., was a master of squirrel hunting. But heart disease took Earl at the relatively young age of 56. We all have lost a friend, relative, or mentor like
Twin Cities to host Backcountry Hunters and Anglers’ 2024 National Rendezvous
Montana-based Backcountry Hunters and Anglers announced today that its 2024 North American Rendezvous will take place at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds from April 18-20, 2024. It’ll be the first time that the event will happen
Wisconsin legislators press DNR policy board appointees on wolves, pollution, sandhill crane hunt
Republican legislators pressed three of Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ appointees to the Department of Natural Resources board Wednesday on wolf management, a sandhill crane hunt and PFAS pollution costs ahead of possible confirmation votes.
Here’s what to pinpoint with scouting leading up to archery deer season
It had been almost a year since I’d been on this property in North Dakota, and my first order of business was checking out a specific bedding area.
It’s actually more of a
The rye factor: a deer herd game-changer
I will never forget March of 2023. Why am I thinking about last winter at the end of August, you ask? Because as long as I live, I will never be able to erase the
Wood ducks: Hunting tactics for these handsome, early migrators
If ducks were models, the drake wood duck would rule the catwalk.
With iridescent chestnut, green, and purple plumage, accented in snowy white, the undeniably handsome drake woodie is one of nature’s most spectacular
Part of Minnesota’s Tamarac refuge closed to early teal hunt after request from White Earth Nation
Citing protection of the wild rice resource from disturbance during the tribal gathering season, Tamarac National Wildlife Refuge in northwestern Minnesota has issued an emergency closure to one of its hunting units during the state’s
All duck hunters make mistakes; the best ones learn from them
The 20-something college graduate student unnerved me from the start.
Along with two other natural-resources students, we were hunting one of the national wildlife refuges in California’s waterfowl-rich Central Valley. It was a pretty
