Mule deer, sage grouse focus of studies
Mule deer in the Little Missouri Badlands recently were equipped with radio collars to enable biologists to track their movements and mortality.
The research is one of several studies under way in western North Dakota to determine the effects on wildlife species from unprecedented oil and gas drilling and production.
The group, Hunting Works for Minnesota, wrote a letter expressing their views to U.S. Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Al Franken.
“Some 90 businesses and individuals, ranging from hotels to hardware stores, from Ron Schara to hunting groups, have singed a letter opposing proposed federal gun control measures,” via Outdoors Now.
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“I think it’s definitely moving in the right direction,” said Brad Nylin, executive director of the Minnesota Waterfowl Association.
via Outdoor News.
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“The total wolf harvest was 53 less than the maximum quota of 200 for the early season, although hunters in the Northeast Zone actually exceeded their quota by three wolves,” via Duluth News Tribune.
The wolf season now enters the phase where trapping is allowed.
“We know that trappers are likely to be more successful than hunters so we expect to see a fair number of wolves taken through trapping,” DNR wildlife population manager Steve Merchant tells the AP.
A majority of wolves killed during this year’s season in Wisconsin were trapped.
“As of Tuesday morning, 54 wolves had been taken in the zone, and the target harvest — or quota — is 58,” via Duluth News Tribune.
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“Keith Follis had hoped to run his trapline for at least a few days during Wisconsin’s wolf season. But his season ended just one day after he started trapping.
“Follis, 51, of Brule, made nine trapping sets for wolves Friday morning, four days after Wisconsin’s first wolf hunting and trapping season opened on Oct. 15. On Saturday morning, he found a wolf in the third set he had placed, along a logging road south of Brule.
“‘The wolf wound up weighing 62 pounds,’ Follis said. ‘But in the brush, it looked like 100 pounds. They’re a big animal. They’re real tall.’”
reports the Duluth News Tribune.
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“Governor Mark Dayton spent the day near Marshall, where he participated in the 2nd annual Governor’s Pheasant Hunting Opener event.
“The hunting was done in a DNR Wildlife Management area.
“The governor’s hunting party did not take any pheasants,” reports KAAL.
“A ruffed grouse hunter killed a wolf that he said chased his hunting dog near Park Rapids, Minn.
“‘The dog ran back to the hunter with the wolf on its heels,’ reported state conservation officer Sam Hunter, who said the hunter used a shotgun loaded with birdshot to kill the wolf last week. ‘The hunter shot the wolf at about eight yards as it was coming directly at him and his dog,’” reports Star Tribune.com.
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“Forty-two percent of hunters and anglers who consider themselves Republicans, and an even greater percentage who say they are ideologically conservative, agree with hunters and anglers of more independent and liberal persuasions that global warming is occurring and that the nation’s natural resources should be protected for future generations.”
via Star Tribune.
More: A conservative argument on climate change (NPR)
“I’ll put the chances of DNR holding a wolf hunt this year at roughly zero,” — Ron Meador, Star Tribune veteran, MinnPost.
“A pile of ducks are coming down from Canada and they are going to be more concentrated this year because of less water across the landscape,” said Steve Cordts, the DNR’s waterfowl specialist. “Somewhere someone is going to have the best duck hunting they’ve ever had.”
