OK. There are bears in Allegany County. The reason I bring that up is because my phone and my e-mail and even my mailbox (yup, people still send regular mail, especially those who want to remain anonymous) have been busy because of folks seeing bears.
I’m not like some turkey hunting partners I’ve had who can make every imaginable turkey call using just their throats and mouths
The only place my deer tenderloin is going is into a marinade and then onto the grill.
Congratulations to the bowhunters in Washington County. Unless Gov. Martin O’Malley forgets to sign a bill that recently passed successfully through the General Assembly, they will have five Sundays to use their bows and arrows to try to bag deer this coming autumn.
Special note to fish and game outlaws. Officer Blu likes the way you smell. When Blu, a 98-pound black Labrador retriever takes off on the track of a person who may have killed an illegal deer or hunted without written permission or fished without a license he doesn’t know that the person has probably done something illegal.
The Maryland Wildlife and Heritage Service has welcomed a new piece of ground into its system of wildlife management areas and it lies 55 miles to the east of downtown Cumberland.
You know, traditional ways of doing things work.
I’ll be up front with you. It’s been driving me crazy waiting for spring gobbler season. I know that those of you who know me are not surprised. I know as well that I am not alone.
Because West Virginia bears rule, there may very likely be a new set of West Virginia bear rules come next hunting season.
It has been three years since Tom Reed — then Frostburg’s commissioner of water, parks and recreation — decided that he would not allow boats on Piney Reservoir, where the city’s water is stored.
What a difference a river makes.
It is that time of year when hunters and anglers, by way of their elected state officials, get to fight for some bills and fight off others, as delegates and agencies attempt to manage fish and wildlife by way of smoke-filled rooms.
Here we go, again. Barbara Frush needs a hobby, something other than harassing hunters, which is illegal in Maryland, by the way. Thing is, Frush does her harassing from her seat as a Maryland delegate where she represents Anne Arundel and Prince George’s counties.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta has completed its analysis of blood from people who eat fish from Deep Creek Lake and found fewer problems than expected, according to a report titled “Blood Mercury Levels Among Fish Consumers Residing in Areas with High Environmental Burden of Mercury.”
I loved Chris Ryan’s quote in the Charleston (W.Va. ) Gazette-Mail when that newspaper’s outdoor columnist, John McCoy, asked him to comment about the record bear harvest in the Mountain State this past year.
Here is what seems to me to be a logical question. Why would the State of Maryland, by way of its Department of Natural Resources, specifically its Forest Service, spend $12,209 plus annual payments for electricity to provide security for 6.5 hours every night for a private lodge on private land? It seems to me that a second logical question would follow.
In case you weren’t paying attention this past summer, the price of a West Virginia nonresident fishing license became a better deal for residents of Maryland.
If you like local deer hunting, you’ll love our Rod & Gun publication that will be inserted into the Jan. 30 Cumberland Times-News.
Will the last hunter out of the woods please turn off the lights? What is it about the late season, that last vestige of deer hunting that pulls me to the cold, damp and lonely woods to places where only boots will take me and at a time when my chance to slay a buck is remote, as remote, I think, as the place where I have now planted my butt, a butt, I might add, that threatens to wipe out my tracks.
Wow! This is totally cool. It used to be (not that long ago) that we had to wait until the middle of March to find out how many deer our .30-06s and .270s had brought home for us in Maryland during the rifle season.
The Humane Society of the United States is all upset again.
Mike Burke wrote a really good column a Sunday ago.
