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Duck hunting at Treece Farm : Commercial spot near Ware provides great day of hunting

Kent Treece and his dog, Aggie, grab a mallard drake on Treece’s farm near Ware. (Les Winkeler / The Southern)
The shroud of black clouds covering the southern sky was showing signs of wear, like a piece of cloth stretched to [...]

Michigan Turkey hunting applications available starting in January
LANSING – The Michigan Department of Natural Resources announced the 2006 spring wild turkey application period is from Jan. 1 to Feb. 1.
All turkey hunters must apply for a license or purchase a Guaranteed Hunt Period license between Jan. 1 and Feb. 1 to be eligible [...]

Antlerless season boosts firearms deer harvest
The final portion of Missouri’s 2005 firearms deer hunting season produced a harvest of 21,922 deer. That pushes the total firearms deer harvest to the third-largest number in modern history.
The antlerless portion of firearms deer season ran from Dec. 10 through 18. This year’s antlerless hunt total was down 2,295 [...]

Illegal hunting practices on the rise in parts of Maine – LEWISTON, Maine –Products with names such as “Deer Cocaine ,” Deer GoInsane” and “Stump Likker” are used to bait deer. They’re OK to sell in Maine, but are against the law to use and could be one reason for an increase in illegal baiting [...]

Overhauling deer hunting – Forty years of deer hunting rules and regulations in Kansas have made the deer licensing process complicated and confusing but efforts to simplify deer hunting are under way.
The Deer Task Force Committee at the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks is working on proposals and recommendations that will streamline the laws [...]

Turkey Hunting Season Changes – Many of you may remember how cold, wet and long last spring was. In fact, those of you that turkey hunted probably remember these conditions all too well. In some parts of the state it rained 25 days during the May wild turkey season. Rainy weather continued [...]

ROSSIE: DEC continues to hit its mark when targeting deer poachers

DAVID ROSSIE / WILDLIFE WATCH
Some of my most memorable deer hunting moments have been spent not hunting deer, but watching Environmental Conservation Officers hunting deer hunters who were hunting fake deer.
Each year the DEC officers set out robotic deer, which appear disarmingly real [...]

Idaho Approves Turkey Seasons – Meeting by telephone conference call, the Idaho Fish and Game Commission approved turkey hunting rules for 2006-2007 that will cut fall hunting in two southwest Idaho units.
Fall hunting seasons will not be held in 2006 in Units 39 and 33 because of concern over wild turkey numbers in those units. [...]

Preliminary numbers show increase in Winnebago, Boone, JoDaviess, McHenry, Ogle and Whiteside counties
SPRINGFIELD Hunters in Illinois harvested a preliminary total of 114,209 deer during the seven-day firearm deer hunting season Nov. 18-20 and Dec. 1-4, Illinois Department of Natural Resources Director Joel Brunsvold announced Dec. 8. The preliminary harvest total compares with the record-setting harvest [...]

Fewer folks hunting turkeys in Virginia in the fall – On the surface, the trend of Virginia’s fall turkey kill is worrisome. A decade ago, the fall kill routinely pushed 12,000 birds.
It’s been lagging steadily since, hitting an all-time low of 5,656 last year. That’s barely one-third of the record kill of 16,861 taken in [...]