Commentary. The Dangers Of Wolves

Last week I referenced the work of Dr. Valerius Geist in my article title, “Myths of Wolf Behavior“. Below is the full manuscript with references as provided to me by the author.

Reprinted by permission from the author:

Valerius Geist, 2008. Commentary. The Danger of Wolves. Wildlife Professional Vol 2, No. 4 pp. 34-35. Winter 2008 edition. Read the story »

Waterfowl USA Banquet At Indiana’s Bluegrass Fish & Wildlife Area

The Twin Bridges Chapter of Waterfowl USA will be holding it’s annual banquet on September 20, 2008, for the Bluegrass Fish & Wildlife Area. This once a year banquet is used to help raise funds for local conservation efforts that help in maintaining the TBWUSA projects. This year’s banquet will be held in Evansville, Indiana at the National Guard Armory

The TBWUSA helps fund projects through their membership fees, wild game suppers, raffles, and banquets. Many of these projects have been highly successful, including the recent Youth Dove Hunt event that drew in 76 kids, who bagged 577 doves in a matter of five hours.

Money received from these projects go towards conservation efforts to help protect Indiana’s waterfowl heritage. Over the past three years, the TBWUSA has built and erected more than 700 nest boxes for Indiana’s wood ducks. This program has been so successful that Indiana recently updated it’s wood duck bag limit from two birds, to three.

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Registration Closed For The 2009 Indiana Predator Challenge

The Indiana Predator Challenge has maxed out it’s registration for the 2009 event. That may be a little disheartening to those of you that didn’t act in the first TWO WEEKS of registration, but never fear–I am hearing that the 2010 event will be bigger and better than ever. The 2009 Indiana Predator Challenge has already registered a record number of participants for the February 1st-3rd event.

What Is The Indiana Predator Challenge?

The Indiana Predator Challenge is an annual competitive predator hunt taking place across 9 counties in southern, southwestern, and central Indiana.

The Indiana Predator Challenge is a competitive predator hunt that was developed in 2004 by some of Indiana’s most dedicated callers. Conversations on various online hunting forums and Southern Indiana gun stores seemed to indicate that there was a sufficient interest in predator hunting so a couple active members started laying the foundation of Indiana’s first competitive hunt to bring these guys together. Jason Bruce and Scott Banfield stepped forward as the hunts primary sponsors and developers. With help from experienced callers, prize sponsors and facilitators of similar contest around the country the first ever Indiana Predator Challenge was created.

Since 2005, the Indiana Predator Challenge has grown from a small scale gathering to one of the largest hunting events in Indiana. Participants are scored on both, live hunts and a rifle marksmanship competition, with the final tally being the average score of both events. The competitions are based on a 3-4 man team setting that always keeps the action amusing.

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The Green Mountain Buck

By Scott Seekins

It all started at 5:00 a.m.Thursday morning November 9th 2006. I stopped into Indian lake market to get a coffee. I got to my brothers house and I headed down to the tree stand with coffee in hand. It was still quite dark because it was a rainy, overcast day.

The first thing that happened to me was that I couldn’t find the tree stand. I had walked about 60 to 70 yards beyond it and had to turn around to find it. I found it after about 5 minutes and climbed up and got the seat dried off. Read the story »