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Animal rights group calls for hunting, shooting titles to be displayed on porn shelf
I know that it’s a long way from Pennsylvania to Great Britain – 3,917 miles from Pittsburgh to London to be precise – but this brief story from a newspaper in England caught my eye
MSNBC to air show on 2011 exotic animal incident
I just previewed an excellent British-produced documentary about the October 2011 incident in Muskingum County that resulted in new legislation to control the ownership of exotic wildlife in Ohio. “Shoot to Kill: The Ohio Animal
When things go wrong
One of the things I remember vividly when I was growing up is my mother admonishing me to “Never count your chickens before they’re hatched.” We’ve all heard it said but when it comes to
All is not fine with fish/wildlife penalties
There are some things that just make you shake your head. State and law enforcement bureaucracy is one of them. I get the fact that wildlife law enforcement officers have a job to do –
Bad things don't happen in my neighborhood, do they?
Bad things don’t happen in my neighborhood. That’s what I keep hearing from my neighbors. I have friends who tell me they have no reason to carry a concealed weapon because they actually believe that.
Angling away from deer hunting
I really can’t remember ever plodding along in the middle of deer season and wanting to grab the fly rod and head out to a Lake Champlain tributary or even road trip it out to
44 Wisconsin wolves tagged through Oct. 31
Wisconsin trappers edged ahead in overall wolf harvest through Oct. 31 with 27 wolves registered as of that day. Hunters had accounted for 17 registered wolves as of Oct. 31, with 44 total wolves registered
The late fall, cold-water period: not too late for largemouth bass
Open water likely will continue on lakes in the upper Midwest for several weeks. That will hold even longer for rivers, not to mention on lakes and reservoirs farther south. Bottom line, it’s not to
Global warming: Lots of concern, but how about a solution?
Let’s get one thing out of the way immediately: It doesn’t matter if you believe in global warming or not. It doesn’t matter if you think the climate is changing due to man-made pollution or
