Monthly Archives: February 2019

Rubber lure ban postponed for a year

Senator Paul Davis’s bill to require rubber lures to be biodegradable was postponed this morning by the legislature’s Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Committee, at the request of the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. Francis Brautigam, DIFW’s Fisheries Division Director, informed the committee that the department would like some time to work on this important […]

Legislature acts on crossbows, spring bear hunts, and more

The legislature’s Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Committee has acted on several interesting bills. A bill (LD 337) to allow a spring bear hunt went down to a quick and unanimous defeat. A bill (LD 27) to allow the use of crossbows in the bowhunting deer season was unanimously approved – after an extensive discussion during […]