Minnesota Chooses New Paintings For Pheasant And Turkey Stamps
Mark Kness of Freeborn won the Minnesota Pheasant Habitat Stamp contest and Stephen Hamrick of Lakeville won the Turkey Habitat Stamp contest. Both of the annual contests took place Sept. 19 and are sponsored by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. This was...
Choosing The Right Men’s Rain Boots
SPONSORED CONTENT Choosing the right men’s rain boots for certain conditions was thoroughly impressed upon me many years ago while filming a deer hunt on Quebec’s Anticosti Island. This boreal beauty in the mouth of the St. Lawrence River is literally a land...
Python Action Team’s Snake Is An 18-Foot Whopper!
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) Python Action Team (PAT) has now removed 900 Burmese pythons from the wild in Florida, including a large 18 foot, 4 inch long female python – the largest ever captured by the team. FWC PAT members Cynthia...
Hunter Walking Trails Help Get Into Grouse Hunting
Anyone who wants to try grouse hunting has an opportunity to access hunter walking trails that guide nonmotorized users through grouse habitat in northern and central Minnesota. “Hunter walking trails are a fun way to check out new areas and they do provide good...
105-Pound MONSTER Snapping Turtle!
Herpetologist Nick Shiltz has his hands full with this 105-pound Suwannee alligator snapping turtle trapped in Warrior Creek near Sylvester. Shiltz and Dirk Stevenson caught and released the monster two-foot-long male as part of a DNR-coordinated survey documenting...
South Carolina Increases Bear Hunting Opportunities
Additional opportunities have been added for hunters in South Carolina this bear season. For the first time, private land in the southern portions of Oconee, Pickens and Greenville counties (south of Game Zone 1) and all of Spartanburg County (Game Zone 2) will have a...
Antlerless Deer Hunter Database
The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission’s Antlerless Hunter Database connects hunters who wish to harvest antlerless deer with landowners who are experiencing damage from deer on their property. Landowners and hunters are important to managing wildlife; together with...
First Time Huntress Draws, Scores Once-in-a-Lifetime Rocky Mountain Goat
Alyssa Nitschelm, of Redmond, Oregon, did not fully grasp the significance of what she was seeing when she checked the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) big game hunting draw results in the kitchen with her father. Having never hunted before, the...
Land of Giant Whitetails
Hunting giant whitetails in an enclosure had never held any appeal for me. Over the past 50 years, I’d chased free-range deer with gun, bow and camera, and I had no intention of changing that. Chuck, the editor at Sporting Classics, knew of my distaste for high-fence...
New Deer Urine/Body Fluids Law In South Carolina
It is illegal to possess or use, for the purpose of hunting or scouting any wild animal in South Carolina, any substance or material that contains or purports to contain any excretion collected from a cervid (deer) including urine, feces, blood, gland oil or other...