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A Mexican gray wolf will be captured alive from the Gila National Forest

By Wolves
Following the removal of an individual, we monitor the pack and continue non-removal tools in an effort to prevent additional depredations. They were successfully poisoned, trapped, clubbed and shot until they were almost completely annihilated by the mid-1900s according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services' website. There are only 83 reported Mexican gray wolves in the wild, according to a recent survey conducted by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
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QDM Co-Ops Enjoy Higher Hunt Satisfaction

By Hunting
QDM Co-Ops Enjoy Higher Hunt Satisfaction Deer hunters who participate in Quality Deer Management (QDM) Cooperatives enjoy nearly twice the level of hunting satisfaction that other deer hunters experience, according to new research from Michigan State University (MSU) that appears in an upcoming issue of QDMA's Quality Whitetails magazine. MSU graduate student Anna Mitterling surveyed 350 members of 16 different QDM Cooperatives covering 90,000 acres in south central Michigan for her Master's thesis in Fisheries and Wildlife. She found satisfaction levels among the hunters increased from 45 percent before to 75 percent after they became involved in a QDM Cooperative. That's much higher than the 46 percent satisfaction rate among all Michigan deer hunters measured by Michigan DNR around the…
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EDITORIAL: Let experts make wildlife decisions, not out-of-staters

By Wolves
...wolf hunt is feasible in Michigan's Upper Peninsula? A year ago, Michigan's lawmakers handed the responsibility of setting hunting seasons to the state's Department of Natural Resources and the Natural Resources Commission. These groups are made up of scientists who, to the best of their ability, attempt to manage Michigan's wildlife by opening up hunting seasons when animals are plentiful and curbing the number of permits handed out when numbers of various species are down....
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Fish Game needs volunteers to plant bitterbrush

By Outdoor Heritage
...sagebrush winter range over hundreds of acres in Southwest Idaho. Volunteers have planted nearly three quarters of a million bitterbrush and sagebrush seedlings during the past 24 years, and saved F hundreds of thousands of dollars in planting costs, said Evin Oneale, regional conservation educator in the Fish and Game's office in Nampa. Bitterbrush and sagebrush are native shrubs in Idaho, and throughout the West. They are important food for big game and other wildlife during...
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