Registration for the 79th Annual MAFWA Director’s Meeting is now open!

Posted on April 24, 2012 by admin


Registration is open for the 79th Annual MAFWA Director’s Meeting. Click here for more information.

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Flying Carp Heading North

Posted on April 10, 2012 by admin

By: Margaret Ontl, Hudson Star-Observer

Published April 06, 2012, 10:54 AM

 With the catch of a silver carp near Winona, Minn, by commercial fisherman, the concern about that invasive species has made headlines throughout the upper Midwest. What does this mean for the St. Croix River? To date, there have only been two Asian carp found in the St. Croix, one in 1996 and one in 2011 which were both big head carp. Continue reading →

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SAVE THE DATE!! MAFWA 2012 Director’s Meeting

Posted on April 3, 2012 by admin

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Jim Douglas named new Game and Parks director

Posted on March 19, 2012 by admin

By ALGIS J. LAUKAITIS / Lincoln Journal Star | Posted: Friday, March 16, 2012 3:55 pm | 

 

 

 

 

 

Jim Douglas (Courtesy photo)

The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission on Friday selected Deputy Director Jim Douglas to head the state agency.

Douglas, 61, will succeed Rex Amack, who will retire in April after 24 years as director. Continue reading →

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Scientists fear chronic wasting disease protein could spawn new human illness

Posted on June 14, 2011 by admin

illustration of prion chart

Prion chart

Deer prions could jump, study says
By John Fauber of the Journal Sentinel
Feb. 3, 2011

New laboratory research suggests that prions from chronic wasting disease in deer could infect people and create an entirely new kind of brain disorder.

The research is not proof that chronic wasting disease can infect people, but advances what science knows about that fear. Continue reading →

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