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Hey, public lands defenders: Remember to use them
Start by planning your epic open water 2017 Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness fishing trip right now.

Ice fishing tip: Organize and protect your ice fishing gear, then spend more time catching fish!
Hard water angling requires working, efficient tackle, so reward yourself with more productive ice fishing by keeping gear properly organized.

Top ice angling tip: Remember late-season tip-ups for walleyes
By the mid-point of the hard-water season, top ice fishing sticks employ tips-ups for transitioning winter gamefish action.

Changes on the horizon for the Pennsylvania Game Commission and Keystone State hunters
Preliminary approval for new hunting regulations promise changes in Pennsylvania

The effects of hydrocysts in Illinois white-tailed deer
Last fall, a doe with some type of growth on her brisket-area, began showing up on one of our trail cameras.

Time to assist conservation officers in helping enforce hunting/fishing laws
It’s time to lend a hand enforcing the fish and game laws in New York! Not physically taking matters into our own hands, but becoming more pro-active in being the eyes and ears for DEC’s

Illinois hunters just one coyote short at Eastern U.S. Predator Calling Championship
Organized coyote hunting contests are catching heat here in Illinois, but a duo from Urbana took their skills — and their Illinois coyotes — to a competition in Virginia

Is it possible to save the ruffed grouse in southwestern Wisconsin’s Driftless Area?
Grouse once drummed on the ridges and valleys of the Driftless Area; they can once again with proper habitat management

A snowy owl in Pennsylvania generates spending
A road trip to see Pennsylvania’s only 2017 snowy owl demonstrates the economic importance of bird watching.