COLUMBUS, Ohio — White-tailed deer are 'highly susceptible' to infection from the novel coronavirus, according to a study published in December in the journal Nature.

More than one-third of 360 deer swabbed across nine locations in northeast Ohio between January and March 2021 were found to be infected with three variants of the novel ...Read more

Make a call to the Department of Natural Resources office in Tower, in northeast Minnesota about 20 miles southeast of Ely.

Ask for the person in charge of wildlife.

Chances are you will get a recording advising you to leave a message, with a response likely from a wildlife manager in the DNR's Cook office, 25 miles west of Tower.

Or give a ...Read more

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has arrested 10 people from Atlanta who were using illegal gill nets to catch fish and sharks at the Skyway Bridge north rest area in St. Petersburg, the agency announced last week.

Officials said the nets were 1,660 feet long, “which is more than four and a half football fields of netting...Read more

Ya Ya Fofana Jr. was far from home and out of his comfort zone.

The 10-year-old watched as a 134-pound boar meandered up a Cedar Key dirt road toward him. It definitely was not a common sight for the St. Petersburg native.

Jovan McNeill stepped up, tapped Fofana on the shoulder and asked if he was ready.

After whispers of encouragement and ...Read more

Two more Idaho deer have been confirmed to have chronic wasting disease, a contagious, fatal neurological disease that was first detected in the state last month.

In a news release, the Idaho Department of Fish and Game said two white-tailed deer bucks tested positive for chronic wasting disease, which is caused by malformed proteins called ...Read more

Whether you live on a dirt road, a suburban lane or in a downtown condominium, chances are good in Minnesota that you care about fish, water, wildlife and wilderness. For 2022, here are five news stories to follow about the great outdoors:

Less is more

Minnesota's walleye bag limit could drop from six to four this year if more legislators buy ...Read more

Road work can come to a screeching halt for myriad of reasons, and this fall in southeastern Minnesota it was all because of a nest of barn owls.

Crews painting the Wabasha-Nelson Bridge spanning the Mississippi River and connecting Wabasha, Minn., with Nelson, Wis., spotted five babies nestled inside the steel structure on Oct. 5 and put part ...Read more

The state Department of Natural Resources did not fully comply with federal environmental review procedures for a planned, off-road vehicle park in Houston, Minn., according to a federal highway official.

The lapse, explained in a memo obtained by the Star Tribune, happened during the land acquisition phase of the slow-developing project and ...Read more

TEHACHAPI, Calif. — When Zachary Principe wants to introduce people to one of his favorite vistas, he takes them to the top of Bear Mountain, a sky island in the Tehachapi Mountains north of Los Angeles where California condors roost in the boughs of sugar pines.

The mountaintop 6,805 feet above sea level is a refuge for mountain lions, mule ...Read more

When Idaho officials confirmed the state's first cases of chronic wasting disease, a fatal illness that affects deer species, the news was expected. Still, the reality hit Rick Ward like a ton of bricks.

"In 20-some years in the wildlife profession, one of the worst days was the day I found out we had CWD in Idaho," said Ward, state wildlife ...Read more

MORRIS, Minn. – This town in the west-central part of the state was platted in 1869 to merge the common interests of farmers and railroaders.

Charles A.F. Morris of Excelsior was a civil engineer, and it was Morris' handiwork constructing tracks from St. Paul to Breckenridge, Minn., that earned him the right to name a whistle stop along the ...Read more

Months after Idaho lawmakers enacted a controversial law expanding wolf hunting and trapping, pushback from critics has continued, with a cadre of opponents once again taking their complaints to the court system.

Groups including the Humane Society of the United States, Earthjustice and Idaho-based International Wildlife Coexistence Network ...Read more