Entries Tagged deer hunting

Wisconsin legislators are proposing a bill that would legalize blaze pink for deer hunters — a move lawmakers hope will encourage more women to take up the sport.

The troubles plaguing deer and deer hunting in the United States are the same ones plaguing hunting. Whether it’s fewer hunters, access to land or poor public perceptions of hunting, their impacts on deer hunting are obvious.

Declining habitat and some tough winters have taken a toll on deer. Deer populations remain well below management objectives in most hunting units, and a conservative approach to hunting is needed to help with recovery efforts.

State wildlife officials, responding to a declining number of deer in the Upper Peninsula due to harsh winters, have drawn up a list of options, including a ban on deer hunting in that region in the fall.

A provision tucked in Minnesota House Republicans' budget bill for environmental and natural resource agencies would allow hunters 84 and older to kill a doe without a permit

A recent bill in Indiana to protect high-fence hunting in the state and the threatened boycott of a popular movie star for his part ownership of a Texas hunting preserve raise serious issues over the controversial practice.

Shortening deer season and allowing crossbows for archery hunters among proposed Missouri hunting changes.

Hunting whitetail deer in the bitter-cold far north is not for the faint of heart.

Wisconsin deer hunter Jared Thiede and his family hunted a buck they called "Picket" for three years before Jared finally killed the whopper in Vernon County.

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources says the deer hunting harvest was down this year from last year during firearm season.

Hunters in Ohio took more than 65,000 deer during the state's weeklong gun season last week, about 10,000 fewer than last year.

Minnesota hunters have registered 102,000 deer through the second weekend of the main firearms deer season.

Missouri wildlife officials are considering more restrictions in whitetail deer hunting to reverse a continuing decline in the deer population, caused mostly by an outbreak of hemorrhagic disease and liberal hunting regulations.