Category: Wildlife

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Romney Selects Sportsman for VP

(Columbus, Ohio) –This election, avid sportsmen and women will know for sure that one of the candidates running for President and Vice President is one of their own.  This past weekend former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney made sure of that when he tapped Wisconsin Congressman, Paul Ryan (R–1, Janesville, WI) to join him in his effort to unseat President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden on November 6th.

While many candidates for elected office profess to be hunters and don flannel shirts at this time of year, Ryan doesn’t dabble.  He is an avid bowhunter, a fact that has been a point of pride to Wisconsin sportsmen and women over the years.  Read more

Hunting, Wildlife

Food Plots and One Day in the Life of a Farmer

By Glen Wunderlich

Mid-summer is a time for county fairs, cool drinks, barbeques, swimming, fishing, vacations and just plain being lazy in the shade. Ah, that would be the life, but when it comes to farming – in my case wildlife food plots – it’s business before pleasure.

With only days remaining before heading down South for a business conference, I had put the food plot work on the back burner until returning the first week in August.  Read more

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Food Plots React to Non-Stop Rain

I had a lot going on so I took a chance and planted my food plots in the last days of July – a bit early but rain was predicted and fell some 9 hours later.  Now, we’ve had non-stop rain for three days and the brassicas are singing my song.  In the top photo, you can see the turnips and rape emerging.

QDMA Special Brassica Mix

In the lower photo, I planted a brassica mix and clover into a stand of alfalfa.  The alfalfa remained after an early-spring spraying with glyphosate (RoundUp).  After that, I just ran a disk across it a few times and over-seeded followed by cultipacking.

Alfalfa stand with over-seeded brassicas and clover

Total acreage planted this fall was about 6.5.  These plots feed the wildlife year-round, with a mix of perennials and annuals.  The worse the December weather, the better the late-season deer hunting.  The foliage on the turnips and rape stays green well into December – even under the snow, when all the farmers have picked their crops.  After that, the deer feast on the turnips themselves.  If enough are planted, some will rot in the spring and subsequently go back to the earth as nutrients for the next planting.
Lots of work, lots of fertilizer and lime ($) and seed but it’s worth it to me when the snow is on.

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No Asian carp found in western Lake Erie

After a week of intensive electrofishing and gill netting activities in Sandusky Bay, Maumee Bay and their main tributaries, officials have found no bighead or silver Asian carps in western Lake Erie. The Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR), Michigan Department of Natural Resources (MDNR) and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) continue to work together to assess the current status of bighead and silver carp within western Lake Erie bays and select tributaries. Read more

General, Wildlife

Whackos File Suit to Stop Wisconsing Wolf Hunt

GW:  Really?  Not that I didn’t expect the relentless whackos to fire away at game management based on science.  No, that’s not it.  But, “animal cruelty?” as a basis to stop the control of wolves?  How ’bout cruelty to livestock?  Oh that’s right, it’s better that the wolves eat the meat before we do.

This from my friends at The U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance Foundation…

On Wednesday, August 8th a coalition of animal rights groups filed a lawsuit against the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR) in an attempt to stop the state’s upcoming wolf hunt.

The hunting season, which was passed by the state’s legislature earlier this year and was recently approved by the WDNR, allows the use of dogs to track wolves.  The anti-hunting groups are claiming that the use of dogs to hunt wolves is a violation of the state’s animal cruelty laws and are seeking to stop the issuance of wolf hunting licenses. Read more

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Natural Resources Commission to meet Aug. 9 in Lansing

GW:  Remember how so many hunters squawked about closing down artificial baiting when we had that one case of CWD in a captive herd?  The DNR was acting on its approved plan, that’s all.  So, here’s your chance to be heard.  It could be very interesting.  There’s other good stuff to be discussed, as well.

Just read the whole post, because not much of it relates to baiting, but it’s in there.

The Michigan Natural Resources Commission (NRC) will hold its regular monthly meeting Thursday, Aug. 9, at the Michigan State University Diagnostic Center for Population and Animal Health, 4125 Beaumont Road, Lansing. Read more

Hunting, Wildlife

Ohio’s Peregrine Nesting Successes

COLUMBUS, OH – Biologists with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources’ (ODNR) Division of Wildlife monitored 36 territorial peregrine falcon pairs and banded young falcons at 17 nest sites during 2012; limited access at some nest sites prevented all young from being banded. Read more

Wildlife

QDMA’s Rack Pack Website Goes Live!

BOGART, Ga. — The Quality Deer Management Association (QDMA) is pleased to announced that the website for its youth education and outreach program, the Rack Pack, is now live atwww.rackpack.qdma.com.

QDMA will officially launch the Rack Pack at its 12th annual National Convention in Nashville, Tenn., August 9-11. The QDMA National Convention will be held in conjunction with the Bass Pro Shops Land & Wildlife Expo at the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center.

The goal of the Rack Pack website is to promote interaction and engagement with QDMA and youth from around North America. The Rack Packprogram strives to recruit individuals 17 years of age and under and to provide them learning opportunities to enrich their hunting and outdoor experience. Read more

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