The great outdoors may be turning into the sometimes great outdoors more each day.
As part of the Youth Hunt, hunters age 17 or younger may hunt ducks, geese, coots and mergansers as long as they are accompanied by an adult at least 18 years of age.
A roundup of legislative and Capitol news items of interest for Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2021:
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Republicans brought in rocker and avid hunter Ted Nugent on Wednesday to publicize a package of bills that would declare open hunting season on sandhill cranes and allow anyone age 18 or older to carry concealed firearms without a permit.
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho officials will make available up to $200,000 to be divided into payments for hunters and trappers who kill wolves in the state through next summer.
BATON ROUGE (AP) — Work on the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries' licensing website will prevent all sales of hunting and fishing licenses on Sunday and Monday, a department news release said Wednesday.
STEVENS VILLAGE, Alaska (AP) — In a normal year, the smokehouses and drying racks that Alaska Natives use to prepare salmon to tide them through the winter would be heavy with fish meat, the fruits of a summer spent fishing on the Yukon River like generations before them.
SOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The South Dakota pheasant hunting season gets underway in two weeks, and the numbers look more than promising.
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Three gray wolves from a large pack in Yellowstone National Park that’s popular among tourists have been killed by Montana hunters, park officials said Monday.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Deer hunters across Louisiana can qualify for a $1,000 drawing by having the head of a mature white-tailed buck tested for a slow but always fatal illness called chronic wasting disease.
After Illinois' narrow loss to Maryland, coach Bret Bielema said he liked the "combo platter" of Brown and McCray. On Monday, offensive coordinator Tony Petersen announced that the "combo platter" is now the main course.
The two-day controlled pheasant and quail hunt will be Nov. 29-30 at Wayne Fitzgerrell State Recreation Area in southern Illinois. The event is co-sponsored by Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever.
"That's a staple in our room, 'Competing out of love, not envy.' I think all of those guys live by that, but they're still going to compete, though."
The Illinois Department of Natural Resources will run 16 hunting sites and 2 additional sites will be jointly run by the department and a private company.
This is a fun adventure/treasure hunting game where you have a map and use cardboard tiles to build a path to different “temples” on your boar…
The four hunters were accused of deer hunting with rifles without required permits or hunting licenses and had two untagged, harvested deer with them.
Indiana prosecutors have charged four juveniles from southeastern Illinois with allegedly torturing and poaching more than 20 wild deer in the two states.
No early symptoms, no cure, always fatal, remains in the environment for decades and is rapidly spreading among wild and fenced deer throughout the United States.
A roundup of legislative and Capitol news items of interest from Tuesday, July 13, 2021:
Two steel culvert traps, each big enough to hold a riding lawnmower, sit in the campground where the tents used to be. Signs on the trees warn “Closed: Bear management action in progress.”
When a person goes into the field and they become reliant upon themselves for their well-being, there is mindset change on what is important in life. One of the things I hold so dearly about hunting is that for a small moment in time, there are no distractions, manipulations, or worry about what others think.
Jimmy Graham found himself airborne, his SUV doing cartwheels across a Florida highway. It was early on a Thursday morning in March, and Graham was headed to an airport to assist with maintenance on a helicopter for his foundation.
In the bigger view, the stadium was the marquee attraction for a major rebuilding of the sagging south half of downtown.
Opinion: Why can’t those who own guns and know the most about them take responsibility for ensuring they're used safely and without malicious intent?
Easter time is upon us and while you might be familiar with the traditions of egg hunts and bunnies, there are other traditions around the wor…
