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— ARCHERY —
— CANADA —
A Minnesota man has been fined $2,000 for possessing or using a number of Ontario resident licences and permits. In addition to the fine, he is also prohibited from hunting in Ontario for two years. | For More...
— COMPETITIONS —
The Central New York Chapter of the Ruffed Grouse Society will hold its annual Sporting Clays Challenge at Kadat Sport Farm, Georgetown, New York on Sunday, July 19, 2009. | For More...
— ENERGY —
The Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership welcomes an announcement by the Utah Bureau of Land Management that valuable public-lands fish and wildlife habitat would receive additional review before being leased for oil and gas development. | For More...
— ENFORCEMENT —
A Florida man who illegally killed a black bear last winter has been fined, forfeited his rifle, placed on six months probation and lost all hunting privileges for the next three years. | For More...
A Felton, York County, Pennsylvania man has been found guilty of selling venison out of his meat processing operation. DNA tests confirmed the presence of more than 500 pounds deer meat in pork sausage. Officials say they're still not sure where all the deer meat came from. | For More...
— EVENTS —
On Saturday, August 8, 2009, Michigan Pheasants Forever will hold their Free Habitat Expo and 2009 State Convention at Cabela's in Dundee, Michigan. | For More...
— FIREARMS —
— FUNDINGS —
Proposed legislation that would provide an alternative source of funding for Pennsylvania's wildlife management agency has been supported by Pennsylvania Game Commission Executive Director Carl G. Roe. | For More...
— HUNTERS —
Master hunters and area landowners are invited to attend a meeting July 18 in Ellensburg for an orientation on this year's hunting season in Elk Area 3911, located near Ellensburg in Kittitas County, Washington. | For More...
— HUNTING —
You forgot to double check your application and now you have a big game tag for the wrong area. You got the hunt of a lifetime in Montana and now you can't use your Nevada tag. The Nevada Department of Wildlife (NDOW) is happy to say "no problem" because now hunters can return most big game tags for any reason. | For More...
— INDUSTRY —
BLACKHAWK! Products Group announces its first Master Distributor agreement in the outdoor and shooting sports market with AcuSport of Bellefontaine, Ohio. | For More...
— NEW PRODUCTS —
DeLorme, the innovation leader in mapping and GPS technology, today announces the release of Topo USA® 8.0, with streamlined map-to-GPS transfers, paperless geocaching, new road detail for Canada and Mexico, and improved in-vehicle GPS navigation with laptop PCs. | For More...
— NOTICES —
The 2009-2010 Indiana DNR Hunting and Trapping Guide is now available on the DNR Web site, dnr.IN.gov | For More...
— ORGANIZATIONS —
The Northeast Pennsylvania Chapter of the Ruffed Grouse Society will hold its 2009 Sportsmen's Banquet at the Knights of Columbus Lodge, Luzeme, Pennsylvania on Friday, July 24, 2009. | For More...
— PROMOTIONS —
— SHOOTING —
The Ruffed Grouse Society will hold its 9th Annual New Jersey Sporting Clay Challenge at the Hudson Farm, Andover, New Jersey on Sunday, July 26, 2009. | For More...
— TELEVISION —
Sportsman Channel announces the launch of an exclusive new series-Tactical Arms-to debut Tuesday, June 30, as part of more than 65 original series episodes being supplied to the network by parent company InterMedia Outdoors (IMO) for the third quarter of 2009. | For More...
— WILDLIFE —
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) successfully removed a black bear from Palm Beach County on Wednesday afternoon after the 300-pound bear has been spotted several times over the past three days in the Wellington area. It will be relocated to the Osceola National Forest in North Florida. | For More...
— YOUTH —
The National Rifle Association's twenty-fourth Annual International Youth Hunter Education Challenge (YHEC) will be held July 27-31 at the NRA Whittington Center near Raton, New Mexico. More than 350 young hunters, along with several hundred parents, coaches, and volunteers are expected to attend the event. | For More...
FEATURE
Quiet Fight Raging
It's not exactly insider information, but through dueling local news reports, we've learned that there's a quiet, but pitched, battle going between Fond du Lac, Wisconsin and Stillwater, Oklahoma.
The prize? the Mercury MerCruiser manufacturing facilities currently located in Fond du Lac. A story in the Stillwater NewsPress quotes Stillwater City Manager Dan Galloway that the city is "trying to do everything we can to encourage MerCruiser to relocate to Stillwater." Meanwhile, the Fond du Lac Reporter says their city officials have held closed door meetings regarding "an economic development issue". Those same officials have not publicly confirmed the Mercury facility as the economic development issue being discussed. Mercury Marine spokesman Steve Fleming, wisely, says the company does not comment on rumors. Should the Fond du Lac plant be relocated, it would reportedly double the number of Mercury jobs at Stillwater. Globally, the $2 billion division of Brunswick Corporation (NYSE: BC) employs more than 6,000 workers scattered among ten manufacturing locations from Fond du Lac (also the world HQ) to Stillwater in the United States, as well as China, Mexico, Belgium, and the United Kingdom. Products range from the MerCruiser sterndrives and inboards, Mercury and Mariner outboards, MotorGuide trolling motors, Mercury and Teignbridge propellers, Mercury inflatables, SmartCraft electronics to Mercury and Quicksilver parts and oils. The stakes are high enough that Wisconsin state officials are working on an incentive package to keep the plant while the Stillwater Chamber of Commerce is working the same package and hoping for polar opposite results. Oklahoma has already passed a bill that relieves Mercury of more than a million dollars in tax penalties. Those were retroactively due when the Stillwater plant fell below a specified number in investments or employees. Under Oklahoma Senate Bill 929, the penalty will only have to be paid if the company left the state. The battle for business is always pitched, but quietly. We'll keep you posted. -- Jim Shepherd 
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