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- Here’s what it takes to get a Master Angler Award in IowaI am often asked what size of fish it takes to get a Master Angler Award in the state of Iowa. So, I did some digging on the Iowa DNR website, and this is what ...
- Harvest data from Wisconsin’s sturgeon spearing season critical to getting population estimateIf the Center for Biological Diversity is successful in forcing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to add sturgeon to the Endangered Species List and Wisconsinâ...
- Anger over shed antlers as thieves poach farms, private propertyFrom January through April, shed hunters strap on binoculars and haunt the backroads in ATVs, or they trek through farmland or woods checking trails and be...
- Previewing the nation’s top bass fishing tournaments in 2024The Major League Fishing Bass Pro Tour kicked off in late January at Toledo Bend Reservoir, an 185,000-acre impoundment of the Sabine River that straddles Louis...
- MN Daily Update: Right now is prime time to prune trees to prevent oak wiltThe unusually warm winter could hasten invasive oak wilt infection risk. Now is the safest time to prune and trim oak trees to prevent the spread of this deadly...
- WI Daily Update: Right now is prime time to prune trees to prevent oak wiltThe unusually warm winter could hasten invasive oak wilt infection risk. Now is the safest time to prune and trim oak trees to prevent the spread of this deadly...
- Wisconsin ‘Lakes at Stake’ group tackles wake boat issueLakes at Stake Wisconsin (LASW), a new bi-partisan group, has formed so members can advocate for wakeboat regulations to protect lakes and lake users from damag...
- Scout trout streams to make sure you are ready for Pennsylvania’s opening daySeveral years ago, a buddy and I drove to a small trout stream, where a relatively secluded honey hole always attracted a good number of stocked trout. We were ...
- Kirk Schnitker: Minnesota government failing to properly address neonicotinoids harmful to the natural worldLast summer, I read an article from the Xerces Society – an advocacy organization whose stated goal is invertebrate conservation – that indicated many state...
- Albino whitetail killed by car last month in Wisconsin’s Washington CountyChuck Dreher, of West Bend, Wis., accomplished the equivalent of finding a needle in a haystack Jan. 25 when he located a white, car-killed doe in a snowbank al...
- Massive broods of cicadas this year could benefit Illinois turkeysTwo factors have wildlife biologists feeling optimistic heading into the spring turkey hunting season, but only one – results of DNR’s 2023 brood survey –...
- Commentary: One in-person field day won’t cut it for hunter safety trainingI am a certified DNR hunter safety instructor and have been for roughly 15 years. I am writing about the Wisconsin DNR’s push to use the virtual world for hun...
- Steve Griffin: Show a little respect for the lowly dogfishWe’d seen several catfish swim beneath us as we sat side-by-side in a battered flip-over shelter on a rare corner of Michigan's Saginaw Bay that was topped wi...
- Deer hunter success slips over the past decade in IllinoisIllinois deer hunters have gone from average to below average when it comes to hunter success in the past 10 years. This according to two different sources: the...
- Wisconsin DNR facing ‘red ink reality’ without a license fee hikeNot bankrupt, but not flush with cash either may best describe the budget situation for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. DNR officials explained t...