Bipartisan Vote Supports Sportsmen's Call for Transparency in Environmental Litigation MISSOULA, Mont.--The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a bipartisan bill to publish details on lawsuits lost or settled by federal agencies that must pay the private legal fees of the other side. The Open Book on Equal Access to Justice Act, H.R. 2919 - which passed the House on May 6 by voice vote with support of both Democrats and Republicans - would create an online public database of court cases against the U.S. government. Agencies do not keep usable data on cases brought against them according to investigations by the Government Accounting Office. H.R. 2919 would provide a common base of information available to all citizens. Boone and…
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Species Act. In 2009, the gray wolf was removed from the endangered and threatened list -- but, as a designated furbearer, the gray wolf remains protected under state code in Iowa. Minnesota wolves have been edging southeastward along the Mississippi River toward Iowa, according to the DNR status report, which noted that a wolf was shot in 2002 in Houston County, Minn., which shares a border with Iowa's Allamakee County. In 2010, the DNR report stated, two known wolflike animals...
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Idaho F&G Holding Negotiated Rulemaking Meetings for the Landowner Appreciation Program Fish and Game's Landowner Appreciation Program (LAP) currently allocates a proportion of controlled hunt tags to a lottery draw specifically for landowners who provide important habitat for deer, elk, and pronghorn in units where general hunting is limited. Landowners who draw authorization for a control hunt tag can designate the tag to another individual. The Idaho Department of Fish and Game recently initiated negotiated rulemaking to gather public input about revising the Landowner Appreciation Program due to landowner and sportsman concerns with the program. IDFG is presenting a revised draft of LAP rules for comment in upcoming negotiated rule meetings. Under the proposed changes, allocation of control hunt tags…
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Fish and Wildlife Service and state and county officials in Utah intended to keep two rare species of desert flowers off the federal list of endangered species.Environmentalists have been trying for more than 30 years to win Endangered Species Act protection for the Graham's and White River beardtongue species of penstemon, which are known to grow only on oil shale outcroppings in the Uinta Basin.The Fish and Wildlife Service formally proposed...
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It's the type of proposal that can go to the Legislature and, if there is enough support, it automatically becomes law.
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He is the author of legislation, approved by both houses of the Indiana legislature this year, which would enshrine the right to hunt and fish in the state constitution. According to the National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation, which is conducted every five years, in 2011 people spent $672 million on fishing and $222 million on hunting in Indiana. In 2011, 37.4 million U.S. residents 16 years old and older went fishing and/or hunting.
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MISSOULA, Mont.--The largest grizzly bear ever taken by a hunter has been entered into Boone and Crockett records. The big bruin, taken in 2013 near Fairbanks, Alaska, scores 27-6/16. It missed the World's Record mark by 7/16 of an inch but landed a spot as the second-largest grizzly ever recorded. The reigning World's Record is a skull found in Alaska in 1976. Bears are scored based on skull length and width measurements. Conservationists use Boone and Crockett trophy data to gauge outstanding habitat, strong recruitment of game animals into older age classes, sustainable harvest objectives and other elements of sound wildlife management and fair-chase hunting. Grizzlies are symbols of our willingness to accommodate large predators and wilderness, but hunter Larry…
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WASHINGTON - Monday, the Bureau of Land Management announced a strategy and requested public input for refining and modernizing land use planning for 245 million acres of public lands that provide valuable fish and wildlife habitat and are prized by sportsmen. The TRCP and other stakeholders are calling this process an opportunity to address gaps in the existing BLM planning process, sustain resource-based economies and ensure that key habitats, migration corridors and backcountry lands are responsibly managed. The "Planning 2.0" process represents the first substantial revision in the BLM's land use planning since the agency first began developing land use plans almost 40 years ago. Influential sportsmen and professionals in the field of land use and wildlife management spoke up…
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...regulation would apply only in Craven County and is drafted based on local acts in force in the neighboring counties of Pamlico and Carteret. Following the public hearing, commissioners are scheduled to hear budget presentations from Craven County Schools Superintendent Lane Mills and Craven Community College President Catherine Chew. Commissioners meet in open session at 7 p.m. Monday in the upstairs meeting room of Craven County Administrative Building at the corner of Craven...
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The 20th Annual Payson Wildlife Fair is happening on Saturday, May 10. This free event in the cool pines runs 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. at Green Valley Park, 1000 W. Country Club Dr. in Payson. Admission, parking and activities are free! The Arizona Game and Fish Department will be stocking 800 pounds of rainbow trout for this event; that's more than 1,000 fish going into the lakes! There will be fishing poles and bait available to borrow for free. No fishing license is required during the event hours (sign up at the fishing clinic booth). See you there!
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