Category: Wildlife

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Five New Ways To Improve Habitat For Wildlife

West Point, MS – Native grasses and wildflowers have been around for thousands of years, providing valuable habitat for wildlife and crucial pollinator species. With population growth and development, these native species have dwindled in numbers, becoming scarcer. In hopes of encouraging landowners to incorporate native grass, forbes and wildflower establishment into their management practices and help restore native habitats to their original state, Mossy Oak Nativ Seeds has introduced five new native seed blends. Read more

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Of Food Plots and Gambling

By Glen Wunderlich

Whenever there’s a hyped-up advertisement for some purported “great” investment, there’s always a disclaimer along with it to the effect that there’s no guarantee of success based on past performance.  On the other hand, a poor track record doesn’t necessarily indicate certain failure on another given gamble.  So, too, it is with the farmer who rolls the dice no matter what.

With late-season food plot establishment a month away, hunters-turned-farmers will join the gambling contingent when they sow their chosen seed in August.  Read more

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Michigan and Ohio DNRs planning follow-up actions with partner agencies

Federal and state wildlife officials, working in conjunction with academic researchers, today announced six water samples taken from Sandusky and north Maumee bays tested positive for the presence of Asian carp environmental DNA in Michigan and Ohio waters. Read more

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Put the Odds in Your Favor with Tink’s Predator Scents

The same qualities that keep predators such as coyotes, bobcats and foxes at the top of the food chain also make them difficult to hunt. Not only are these predators intelligent, but they have remarkably keen senses that alert them not only to potential prey, but to the hunters in their area. Tink’s predator lures manipulate their unbelievable sense of smell to work in the hunter’s favor. Irrisistible to predators, these scents help to level the playing field a bit. Read more

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Duck Populations Hit All-Time High

 

North America’s total spring duck population is the highest ever recorded, according to the annual Waterfowl Breeding Population and Habitat Survey released Tuesday.
Conducted each May by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Canadian Wildlife Service, the survey puts the duck population at 48.6 million birds. That represents a 7 percent increase from 2011’s record number of 45.6 million. Read more

Hunting, Wildlife

Desert Tortoises Truly in Need of Adoption

PHOENIX – A unique, fascinating, low-maintenance and educational pet can be had through the Arizona Game and Fish Department’s Tortoise Adoption Program, conducted in partnership with the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum and the Phoenix Herpetological Society.
If you have a yard, but little time for a dog, this well-mannered critter might be just the answer to having a household companion. Read more

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