Wisconsin hunting, fishing, trapping and other licenses for the 2014-15 seasons go on sale March 5 and are valid through March 31, 2015. Hunting and fishing licenses for the 2013-14 license year will expire March 31, 2014. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources encourages long-time license buyers in Wisconsin to consider purchasing a Conservation Patron license....
Well, ol’ Tink Nathan won’t be heading to Austin in the Texas House of Representatives. Nathan was running for the House GOP seat in District 53, which is Bexar County north of San Antonio. One of his campaign promises was to introduce a bill to legalize the pickup and use of roadkill. That, of...
Despite chronic wasting disease having been around for more than four decades, wildlife biologists still haven’t been able to figure out how to stop or slow the spread of the fatal deer disease. Now, it appears to have doubled in the percentage of deer in one state where officials are trying to take their...
Surrender your guns, make them inoperable or sell them, but you can’t have them anymore or we’ll come to confiscate them and arrest you! That sounds like something straight out of an Orwell novel, or maybe the oppressive playbook from overlords running Germany in the early 1940s. Right? Supposedly, this paraphrased demand about assault...
Deer management plans sometimes call for drastic measures, and sometimes that includes putting the kibosh on some of the hunting opportunities for the public. Management isn’t always easy, nor is it always fun. It’s work. Sometimes it means making tough choices. Montana’s Fish & Wildlife Commissioners recently adopted a number of new regulations that...
Deer farmers try their hardest to keep their animals from being injured or killed, sometimes erecting high fences or using bright ear tags, or both. But some are trying new ideas including shiny antlers that glow in the dark. Some reindeer herders in Finland have begun trying reflective, fluorescent dye applied to their stocks’...
Three men and a corporation have been cited in Mississippi with a 13-count federal indictment alleging the illegal transportation of white-tailed deer into the state for breeding and killing. Ronald W. Reine, 67, Brian R. Reine, 44, Bruce A. Swilley Jr., 27, and Omni Pinnacle, LLC, all of Slidell, La., were charged with various...
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources will temporarily take its license sales system offline for portions of the day on Feb. 25 and Feb. 28 to perform system updates. License purchases will not be available in stores or online during this time. The updates are necessary to prepare the system for the 2014 license...
For the first time since the mid-1990s, Iowa’s deer harvest for an entire season has dropped below 100,000 deer reported to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. Hunters reported 99,406 deer during the 2013 season. That is a decline of 14 percent from 2012, and 34 percent from its high in 2006. The 2012...
Adults and children looking to take a hunter education class in 2014 are reminded to enroll now as the majority of all classes are held by the end of May. To register, visit the North Dakota Game and Fish Department website at gf.nd.gov, click on the online services tab, and “online course enrollment” under...
