Outdoors

Tyler Burgei, 13, of Ottoville shot this rare beared wild turkey hen during the recent Ohio youth hunt. Only about 10 percent of hens have a beard. They are legal to be taken in Ohio since they have a...  Read Story.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- Spey's the way. Tired of traditional one-handed fly-fishing -- in itself a difficult, delicate art -- some anglers in the Northwest are turning to Spey rods, rods so long they require two hands to cast....  Read Story.

A pair of fishing derbies will be held this month at Boy Scout Camp Lakota in Defiance. The first is a kids fishing derby slated for 9 a.m.-12 p.m. Saturday The other is a he and me Girl Scout fishing derby set...  Read Story.

ATLANTA, Mich. (AP) -- Hundreds of whitetail deer have been shot in recent weeks in Michigan's northeast Lower Peninsula under a program aimed at preventing them from transmitting bovine tuberculosis...  Read Story.

LINTON, N.D. (AP) -- A portion of Ernie Roehrich's farm hasn't been plowed for two decades: It's part of a federal program that pays landowners to idle land for conservation. Payments from the Conservation...  Read Story.

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Tony Saunders stalked his prey for 35 miles by snowmobile through western Wyoming's Hoback Basin, finally reaching a clearing where he took out a .270-caliber rifle and...  Read Story.

The top shooters in the Defiance County Rifle and Pistol Club were, from left: Joe Hiler, Joe Daly, Rod France, Roger Sisco and Kent...  Read Story.

Quintet tops shooters during rifle, pistol club league action Joe Hiler, Joe Daly, Rod France, Roger Sisco and Kent Ott were the top winners during the Defiance County Rifle and Pistol club fall and winter league action. France was the Dixon Trophy...  Read Story.

International Migratory Bird Day slated on May 10 at Magee Marsh COLUMBUS -- Live raptor programs, songbird banding demonstrations and roving birding guides are a few of the features that will highlight International Migratory Bird Day, from 8 a.m.-5...  Read Story.

John Vogel, of Defiance, had a surprise last week while fishing for crappies in the Maumee River below Independence Dam. He hooked into a 27-inch steelhead last Thursday using a crappie minnow. The steelhead almost certainly came up the river from Lake...  Read Story.

Ryan Buchhop, 9, of rural Defiance, caught a largemouth bass that weighed more than 51/2 pounds on April 7 at a farm pond near Defiance. He was using a Bettle spin. He released the female bass back into the...  Read Story.

COLUMBUS -- The Ohio Wildlife Council approved the change in status of three Ohio raptors from endangered to threatened last week, evidence of the success of statewide restoration and...  Read Story.

COLUMBUS -- Lake Erie anglers fishing in Ohio waters west of Huron will face a reduction this summer in the daily bag limit for yellow perch, following action by the Ohio Wildlife Council last...  Read Story.

COLUMBUS -- Sept. 1 will again kick off the state's fall hunting seasons -- with the opening of the squirrel-hunting season that runs through Jan. 31 -- under regulations approved last week by the Ohio Wildlife...  Read Story.

MARQUETTE, Mich. (AP) -- The Upper Peninsula is the place to be for snowmobilers this week. Because of the dense snow pack that lingers over most of the U.P., the Michigan Department of Natural Resources will continue grooming the state-managed...  Read Story.

Pesticides, other contaminants prevalent BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Pesticides, heavy metals and other airborne contaminants are raining down on national parks across the West and Alaska, turning up at sometimes dangerously high levels in lakes, plants and...  Read Story.

BOSTON (AP) -- Call them Pavlov's fish: Scientists are testing a plan to train fish to catch themselves by swimming into a net when they hear a tone that signals feeding time. If it works, the system could eventually...  Read Story.

COLUMBUS -- Companies that build wind farms in Ohio are being asked to monitor the areas for birds such as eagles and hawks and for bats, both before and after turbines are built and running. If it turns out that unacceptable numbers of animals are...  Read Story.

JACKSON, Mich. (AP) -- A Horton man who didn't have a hunting license when he shot a 24-point buck last October with a compound bow in a Jackson County swamp has been...  Read Story.

The Turkeyfoot Gobblers chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation will hold its annual fund-raising banquet Saturday, March 29, at AMVETS 1313 on North Scott Street in Napoleon. Tickets are priced at $50 for single, $75 for a couple and $15 for...  Read Story.