Opinions
Patrick Durkin: Wisconsin DNR keeps ignoring CWD elephant in the room
One can’t help but smirk each autumn when the DNR issues its reminders and suggestions to hunters preparing for Wisconsin’s deer seasons.
A DNR press release on Sept. 12 advised: “Help Maintain a Healthy
Commentary: It’s time to disband County Deer Advisory Commission panels in Wisconsin
Huge changes took place in Wisconsin’s deer management strategy in 2010. Those changes continue to degrade deer hunting across Wisconsin, but particularly in northern Wisconsin.
The payment to Dr. James Kroll by the Scott
Dean Bortz: A tribute to friend Tom Coulthurst and our many adventures
I met Tom Coulthurst not long after moving to Wisconsin’s Minocqua/Woodruff area in June 1986 to work as a reporter at The Lakeland Times. It was summer. Probably 1986 or 1987.
I went to
Russ Mason: Would a simpler licensing structure benefit Michigan hunters?
In 1934, the Michigan hunting regulations pamphlet was a single piece of paper folded in half, creating a front, back, and two inside pages.
Today, the document has expanded to 80 pages, and also
State Roundup: Wisconsin bear hunters off to a great start
As of Sept. 20, Wisconsin’s black bear harvest totals stood at 91% of this year’s harvest goal with 3,527 animals registered across the six bear zones. The 2024 harvest goal was set at 3,850 bears.
Ben Moyer: Hunting’s approval runs broad and deep in Pennsylvania
You can feel tension these days. It portends the political climax we’ll reach in a few weeks. It would all be more constructive if the intense rhetoric could be tamped down to rational discourse. Everyone
Streams of Thought: Vacancies continue to hinder Minnesota DNR’s fisheries field offices
There’s really not down time, so to speak, when it comes to the operations at Minnesota’s 29 area fisheries offices. That said, things get pretty serious about this time of year, when the task of
Tom Venesky: Oral rabies vaccine appears to work; could method one day be a blueprint for stemming CWD?
Throughout the summer, government officials were busy tossing thousands of oral rabies vaccine packets across western Pennsylvania and several other states in the East.
The packets were dropped from airplanes and helicopters, along with
Minnesota Letters to the Editor: There’s no need to shoot hen mallards
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Sept. 27, 2024, edition of Minnesota Outdoor News.
