Pennsylvania Mixed Bag: Huge buck is close to a record
Staff Report
April 25, 2023
A mix of outdoor news stories from across Pennsylvania published in the April 28, 2023 edition of Pennsylvania Outdoor News.
Whitetail
Hass family receives Minnesota Deer Hunters Association awards for generations of volunteering
Brian Mozey
April 23, 2023
The Minnesota Deer Hunters Association held its 36th annual state banquet in late February, and during this banquet, the group presented Forkhorn Achievement awards as well as MDHA Distinguished Service awards.
Little did John,
A casual way to search for shed antlers
Steve Piatt
April 23, 2023
I’ve found a few whitetail antler sheds over the years, but I wouldn’t call myself a shed hunter. Usually, when it happens, I blunder into one while trolling for spring gobblers, the find sometimes a
Pennsylvania Game Commission boosts doe tags by 147,000 for 2023-24
Staff Report
April 22, 2023
Pennsylvania game commissioners, at their quarterly meeting here April 15, voted to increase the number of antlerless deer licenses available to hunters this year by 147,000.
Commissioners announced that 1,095,000 antlerless deer licenses will
Mail survey shows Michigan’s 2022 deer harvest, hunter numbers drop
Bill Parker
April 21, 2023
According to preliminary results from the DNR’s mail survey of random deer hunters, harvest numbers and hunter numbers were down during the 2022 season.
“These are results from the returned surveys and are still
Pennsylvania bill would deny hunting licenses to those convicted of animal cruelty
Tom Venesky
April 21, 2023
A bill that would grant authority to the Pennsylvania Game Commission to deny or revoke a hunting or furtaking license from anyone convicted of animal cruelty has resurfaced in the state House.
State
Is lack of antlerless deer take reason for concern in parts of Minnesota?
Eric Morken
April 21, 2023
Hunting is the primary tool that state wildlife agencies use to manage deer herds, but making a dent in whitetail populations by way of antlerless harvest is proving to be a difficult proposition in some
Groups send letter to state senators opposing wolf hunt ban in Minnesota
Staff Report
April 20, 2023
Eleven big game and outdoors-focused organizations on Thursday sent a letter to Minnesota state senators opposing language that would ban wolf hunting in the state.
On Monday, Rep. Peter Fischer, DFL-Maplewood, offered an
CWD anchors discussion at Waupaca open house in Wisconsin
Greg Seubert
April 20, 2023
A response plan that includes more testing is in place now that chronic wasting disease (CWD) has turned up twice in Waupaca County’s wild white-tailed deer herd.
The fatal, infectious nervous system disease that kills
