Category: Wildlife

Goldfinch

CBD Files Yet another Frivolous Lead Lawsuit

Posted on June 14, 2012

After twice petitioning the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to ban lead in traditional hunting ammunition—and after being twice previously denied—the Center for Biological Diversity is back at it.  In early June the CBD was joined by six environmental groups in suing the EPA for refusing to ban lead in traditional ammunition.  Two months earlier the EPA denied CBD’s second petition requesting regulations banning traditional ammunition. Read more

Animal Rights, Hunting, Wildlife

DNR offers fast sale opportunity for Duck Lake Fire area timber

The following updated news release is being sent to correct the address of the DNR’s Newberry field office, for those who wish to meet there for the June 21 tour. The correct address appears below. We apologize for any inconvenience.

June 13, 2012

Contact: Keith Magnusson, 906-293-3293 ext. 4740 or Debbie Begalle, 517-335-3354

Due to the recent Duck Lake wildfire north of Newberry in Luce County, the Department of Natural Resources plans to conduct large-scale salvage operations to harvest portions of the state-managed forest damaged by the fire. Because of the special circumstances (the potential for bug infestation in the trees that are left) that require a fast sale, potential bidders will have just one week in which to visit the sale sites and submit their bids. Read more

General, Wildlife

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
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