Category: Wildlife

Goldfinch

Rogue Lightning Strike Kills TBF Angler

GW:  Lightning:  If you can hear thunder, you are already in danger!  Nothing’s worth it, boys!

Ponca City, OK – TBF mourns the loss of division championship angler, Lorenzo Magdaleno, 51, from Lake Placid, Fl. He was a veteran angler and a member of the Florida Bass Federation and the Homestead Hawg Hunters club for more than a decade. Magdaleno was pronounced dead by Florida officials on Friday, June 8, after a bolt of lightning apparently struck Magdaleno and his boat partner, Mike Hardin, from Tennessee while they fishing shortly after noon prior to the final day weigh-in of the TBF Southern Division Championship on Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Read more

General, Wildlife

Food Plot Tips

By Bob Humphrey
By now you should have all your warm season food plots in, and if you’ve had sufficient rain they should be greening up nicely. You might think there’s nothing left to do until it’s time to start planting cool season annuals. And there isn’t, if you’re willing to accept what comes up as good enough. But if you want to maximize your spring planting efforts, there’s more that can be done. Read more

Wildlife

Easton’s Ultra-Micro-Diameter Arrows

COLUMBUS, Georgia — The Easton Carbon Injexion arrow is the first ultra-micro-diameter hunting arrow designed with Deep Six Technology, a new standard in high performance inserts, points and broadheads for bowhunting. Until Deep Six, conventional insert systems were too large to allow hunting with micro diameter shafts like those used by world-class competitors. Micro diameter arrows provide archers more kinetic energy downrange and extreme crosswind resistance-and now this same performance level is available in Easton Carbon Injexion shafts designed from the ground up specifically for hunting. Read more

Hunting, Wildlife

DNR invites public input on Kirtland’s warbler management

The Department of Natural Resources is currently seeking public input on Kirtland’s warbler management in Michigan. The DNR will host a public meeting on Wednesday, June 27, at the Kirtland House on the Kirtland Community College campus, 10775 North St. Helen Road, in Roscommon, from 6 to 8 p.m. The DNR is beginning to draft a Kirtland’s warbler operational plan to direct future management of the bird and its habitat on state lands. Read more

Wildlife

Natural Resources Commission to meet June 14 in Lansing

The Michigan Natural Resources Commission will hold its regular monthly meeting on Thursday, June 14 at the Diagnostic Center for Population and Animal Health, 4125 Beaumont Road, Lansing.

At 1 p.m., the Policy Committee on Fish and Wildlife will discuss the Wildlife Division’s recommendations for antlerless deer quotas for the upcoming season. In addition, the Wildlife Division will report on the 2011 deer season, the division’s update to the chronic wasting disease surveillance and response plan, and a new bovine tuberculosis model.

Hunting, Wildlife

Senate Amendment Would Help Hunters Access Public Lands

MISSOULA, Mont.Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) and Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) today offered a package of sportsmen?s bills in an amendment to the Farm Bill legislation. One piece of the amendment guarantees funding for improving hunter access to existing public lands. This bipartisan amendment is supported by the Boone and Crockett Club, Congressional Sportsmen?s Foundation and other hunting organizations. Read more

Animal Rights, Hunting, Wildlife
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