Hunting
Ohio Wildlife Council member calls for hunting suspension due to decline of ruffed grouse
Ohio’s ruffed grouse continue to decline, and a quick rebound is unlikely with habitat issues at the forefront of the birds’ decline.
Minnesota’s CWD-focused bill advances from House committee
The Environment and Natural Resources Finance and Policy Committee on Wednesday, Feb. 8 passed House File 1202 and referred it to the House Agriculture Finance and Policy Committee. The bill addresses chronic wasting disease and
Michigan gains detailed data from mandatory online deer reporting
Last year hunters killed about 400,000 deer. If the 2022 season was similar, that means roughly 75% of the deer killed were registered.
Step-by-step instructions for building your own wood duck houses
Editor’s Note: The Wood Duck Society and the staff at Outdoor News agree that mounting wood duck houses on trees creates an unnecessary predation hazard for the birds.
Iowa workshop offered to teach everything about turkey hunting
The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is offering a program to teach skills needed to hunt, field dress and cook wild turkey to adults.
The two-part workshop, scheduled from 6-9 p.m. on March 9 and
Young hunter’s Ohio 6-point may be world record-breaker
It wasn’t the buck David Yoder was chasing last fall, but the 6-point buck he ended up shooting might just make the record books.
Yoder’s long-tined 3×3 was officially scored by Buckmasters at 145
Hunters in Pennsylvania CWD areas could have more options among processors, taxidermists
During the Jan. 28 quarterly meeting, the Pennsylvania Game Commission board granted preliminary approval for a measure that would allow hunters to take harvested deer out of a disease management area or CWD established area
Pa. Game Commission backs regs for urine-based deer attractants
No talk of banning them at recent meeting of agency.
Pennsylvania takes a new approach to managing turkeys
The belief that turkey populations were in decline in parts of Pennsylvania wasn’t entirely accurate, and the population in terms of long-term trends is actually doing better than previously thought, according to the Pennsylvania Game
