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Hunters could learn fate of firearms ‘silencer bill’ at anytime; state budget focus of new legislative session
Legislation to allow use of suppressors on hunting guns expected to come up for a vote as 99th General Assembly gathers to take care of unfinished business

Is Pennsylvania dead weight in effort to restore the Chesapeake?
State that supplies most of bay’s pollution lags most in clean-up

School action with hunter creates controversy
District responds to allegations, says it respects hunting traditions

A look back at the top 10 Minnesota hunting, fishing, and conservation stories of 2016
The Outdoor News “year in review” appeared in this week’s print edition, and here’s how staffers ranked the biggest outdoors stories from a year that brought us public lands battles and President Trump

Fish under ice, angler on top of ice
Much of Illinois is experiencing its first “real” winter in years, which means ice anglers are warming up to the idea of drilling holes and trying to pull panfish, walleyes and pike through the ice.

Bonding proposal kicks off Minnesota’s 2017 legislative session
Gov. Mark Dayton’s proposal includes money for conservation and natural resources

The big walleye story
A southeastern Wisconsin ice ‘walleye’ looks more like a white sucker

New blogger excited about talking Illinois hunting, fishing
After introductions, talking about anything that matters to Illinois hunters and anglers

Young Ohio hunter shamed at school for shooting deer
A 9-year-old girl from northeast Ohio, Domonique Yatsko, was lucky enough on the youth weekend to harvest a really nice buck.