Category: Wildlife

Goldfinch

Another successful spring fish stocking season creates opportunities for anglers

The Department of Natural Resources today announced the final totals from its spring fish stocking efforts. The DNR’s Fisheries Division stocked a total of 19,130,659 fish that weighed 664,338 pounds and consisted of eight different species and one hybrid. To complete this task, it took 394 stocking trips to 729 stocking sites, with drivers travelling 106,235 miles in 2,648 hours using 17 specialized stocking trucks. Read more

Wildlife

The Secret to Painlessly Removing Ticks

It can start with pain, itching, redness and swelling in the area of the skin, and in more pronounced cases, it can include fever, headache, fatigue, and/or a skin rash. The culprit is a tick bite, and if left untreated, it can lead to Lyme disease, which can spread to the joints, heart and nervous system.
According to Lauren Allen, who just completed her undergraduate degree with a double major in communication media studies and journalism from DePaul University, and writing for RadioMD.com (www.radiomd.com) , “you can have a tick (or three) burrowed in your skin without even feeling a thing.” She notes that ticks are usually most active from April until September.
But she also reveals that removing ticks, once an onerous task using tweezers (which often did not remove the tick and was impossible to use for some parts of the body) is now a swab of cotton balls away.
Her advice: Read more

Hunting, Wildlife

New Bushnell Elite Tactical 8-40x 60mm

Overland Park, Kan – Bushnell Outdoor Products, an industry-leader in high performance sports optics since 1948, has introduced a new compact roof prism spotting scope in the Bushnell Tactical line. The versatile Bushnell Elite Tactical 8-40x 60mm Lightweight Modular Spotting Scope (LMSS) represents the best in optical quality and engineering from a company that’s been an industry-leader for 65 years.

 

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The Elite Tactical 8-40x 60mm LMSS features ED Prime glass, BAK-4 prisms and fully multi-coated optics, resulting in incredible image brightness and color resolution. Read more

Hunting, Wildlife

I’ll Pick Berries for Food

I was challenged to come up with enough black raspberries for some cobbler, but the heat drove me out with only about half of the requisite amount of one quart.  On the way, however, I found enough red raspberries to liven up my breakfast cereal.

Wild Red Raspberries

Wild Red Raspberries

One thing’s for sure, a berry picker must be prepared to do battle with the elements.  In this case, it also encompasses mosquitoes and biting deer flies.  Some deet repellent, long pants, and a headnet did the trick.

Full Gear

Full Gear

 

One more trip should do it.

General, Wildlife , ,

NSSF Expands West with Hunting Works for America

The National Shooting Sports Foundation® (NSSF®), the trade association for the firearms industry, is excited to announce that the Hunting Works For America program has grown yet again and now includes a state chapter in Utah. Hunting Works For Utah joins Arizona, Minnesota, North Dakota, Iowa, Missouri and Pennsylvania, which launched just last month, as the seventh state to be included in the award-winning Hunting Works For America program. Read more

Ammunition, Animal Rights, Firearms, General, Gun Control, Hunting, Self Defense, Wildlife

Gypsy moth caterpillars making life challenging for Michigan residents

Michigan residents in northern parts of the state are noticing loss of leaves on oak, aspen and maple trees. The prime culprit contributing to this defoliation is the gypsy moth. Department of Natural Resources forest health officials report that, while the most obvious defoliation is currently heaviest in Crawford, Oscoda, Otsego and Montmorency counties, it is likely that gypsy moth caterpillars are causing similar problems on a local scale in other areas of the Lower Peninsula. Read more

Wildlife

Osprey in southern Michigan will wear backpacks this season

Once nearly absent from much of Michigan due to the effects of DDT and other pesticide use, Michigan’s osprey population continues to rebound. In southern Michigan, monitoring efforts track the revitalization of this species.
“We are very excited to have the opportunity to place GPS tracking units on several osprey this year,” said Julie Oakes, DNR wildlife biologist. “This will provide the DNR with information on what migration routes the birds take, and also give us insight into what perils they must endure on their migration.” Read more

Wildlife

Antis in Michigan Pushing Second Referendum on Wolves

On July 2nd, animal rights groups launched a petition drive to stop the state from controlling the growing wolf population.  If enough signatures are gathered, Michigan voters will decide on November 4, 2014, whether to overturn Senate Bill 288, which granted authority to designate game species to the state Natural Resources Commission.  The anti-hunting coalition, called Keep Michigan Wolves Protected, is backed by the nation’s most powerful animal rights organization, the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS). Read more

Animal Rights, Hunting, Wildlife
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