Buckmasters News
2023 CRP signup open through April 7
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is accepting applications for its voluntary Conservation Reserve Program. Private landowners can apply at their local USDA...
Researchers develop new method to count wolves
Extensive survey efforts conducted by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR), tribal biologists and more than 100 trained citizen volunteers...
Déjà vu-ing with turkeys, youth hunters and rain
Photo: Chuck Sykes, director of the Alabama Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries Division, had plenty of luck with youth hunters during last year’s turkey...
Hunters check 12,505 deer in OH muzzleloader season
Hunters checked 12,505 white-tailed deer during Ohio’s muzzleloader season, Jan. 9 to 12, an increase over the 2015 muzzleloader season when 13,724...
Moose lottery open, drawing will go virtual
The deadline to apply for the Maine Moose Permit drawing lottery is 11:59 p.m. May 14. MDIFW no longer accepts paper applications, which means applicants...
Interior Department seeks to expand hunting, fishing access to 2.3 million acres
Last week, the Department of the Interior (DOI) announced a historic proposal to expand hunting and fishing opportunities across more than 2.3 million acres...
Panhandle CWD containment zone expands
The Parks and Wildlife Commission has approved expanding the state’s chronic wasting disease (CWD) Panhandle Containment Zone following the discovery of the...
Emergency declaration modifies deer urine products ban
The Wildlife and Fisheries Commission passed a declaration of emergency during its July 1 meeting that modifies the deer urine ban for the 2019-20 hunting...
Fall turkey season opens Oct. 29
Fall turkey season, an annual opportunity to pursue the state’s only big-game bird among the changing colors of the autumn woods, kicks off Oct. 29 in 19 of...
Final deer, turkey harvest numbers reported
The 2018-2019 deer-hunting season ended Jan. 15 with the Missouri Department of Conservation reporting a preliminary total harvest of 290,339 deer.
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Slow Diagnosis
Slow diagnosis proves Lyme not a Southern myth.
Unlike most victims, Chuck Sykes knows exactly when a deer tick bit him that led to a six-month journey...