Positive outlook for Wisconsin ruffed grouse, and grouse hunters, this fall
Jerry Davis
July 21, 2017
Spring drumming counts are up from 2016.
Hunting
DNR proposes January antlerless season in southeast Minnesota
Joe Albert
July 21, 2017
Special whitetail hunt would include CWD Management Zone plus permit areas 346, 348, and 349 that DNR describes as “chronically over goal.”
Idaho could be first state in the country to allow baiting for wolf hunts
Associated Press
July 19, 2017
If the rule to allow baiting for hunting wolves goes into effect, Idaho would be the only state in the country to permit it.
North Dakota pronghorns: ‘Numbers were a bit disappointing, but not unexpected’
North Dakota Game and Fish Department Reports
July 18, 2017
Hunting season set with 410 licenses available; two units that were open last year closing this season.
South Dakota pheasant picture slowly coming into focus
Pheasants Forever Reports
July 18, 2017
Hunters should hope for figures better than the 5.91 to 6.17 average brood sizes seen in 2016 and 2015, respectively. Can it happen?
South Dakota: More pronghorns, more hunting licenses
Associated Press
July 17, 2017
Wildlife agency will issue resident hunters more than 900 more buck-antelope hunting licenses and 1,400 more doe-antelope licenses in 2017 and 2018 than it did last year, when hunter success reached 70 percent.
Let hunters hunt on Sundays
Tom Pink
July 14, 2017
Michigan repealed its ban on Sunday hunting, but 10 states still enforce such a law.
DEC revising permit requirement for bobcat hunting, trapping
Staff and News Reports
July 14, 2017
New York hunters, trappers no longer required to obtain special permit.
In this part of Pennsylvania, a first for CWD in the wild
Pennsylvania Game Commission Reports
July 12, 2017
Chronic wasting disease has spread to free-ranging buck in an area of the state where it previously had been detected only in captive deer.
