Applications for IN reserved turkey hunts start Jan. 31 Hunters can begin submitting online applications for reserved turkey hunts to be held on certain state and federally owned properties beginning Jan. 31. The application period runs through March 24 at dnr.IN.gov/fishwild/5834.htm. New for 2014, DNR will offer a reserved hunt at Sugar Ridge Fish & Wildlife Area in southwestern Indiana. Hunters must possess a valid 2014 spring turkey license, or lifetime license or youth hunt/trap license to apply for any of the reserved hunts. Applicants are allowed to apply for one property, and choose from the available dates for that property. Whether a drawn hunter can bring a hunting buddy varies by property. On DNR properties, drawn hunters are not allowed…
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Minnesota is different than Maine and Maine is different than New Hampshire," Kantar said. "When there's moderate temperatures, there are parasites. If a collared moose dies, a signal will go out to biologists, who will collect the carcass to conduct a necropsy, which can determine the cause of death. And the winters up there continue to be robust.
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Its recommendations include: * Creation of a "no surface occupancy" buffer zone within one mile of active sage grouse breeding grounds, or leks, within "core habitat" for the bird.
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He found his other dog waiting for him at his car. Tracking dogs picked up the lion's scent later in the afternoon and followed it for a half-mile before losing it.
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Their urban colleagues, for whom hunting is a nonissue, watched from the sidelines. The sponsor of the bill (HB1237), Del. Tommy Wright, R-Lunenburg County. Before approving the repeal bill, the House rebuffed an amendment offered by Del. Ralph Northam, passed the Senate, it went to a seven-member House subcommittee, which tabled it.
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Today, the state's wolf population is estimated to be around 680 animals, according to the Idaho Department of Fish and Game. Last year, Otter vetoed a bill that would have diverted money from Fish and Game to a wolf management fund.
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Department of Fish and Wildlife Monday said it was halting the hunt after nine wolves were killed since December, with none in the past two weeks. It had planned to keep hunter Gus Thoreson of Salmon in the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness this winter as it sought reduce wolves and bolster low elk populations there. Wolf advocates initially lost their bid for a court order to force Thoreson to quit hunting wolves from his base on U.S. Forest Service territory.
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BLM should extend the comment period on a draft management plan for protecting sage grouse habitat, Congressman Greg Walden, R-Ore., said in a letter delivered Thursday to the federal agency. At issue is the BLM's draft sage grouse environmental impact statement, or DEIS. The agency's draft proposal is designed to protect the bird so that it is not thrust under the umbrella of the federal Endangered Species Act. "Many Oregonians have expressed concern to me that their desire to...
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Killing wolves in an area where few, if any, sport hunters were willing to go was a strategy to help elk recovery in the backcountry. The timing also coincided with a so-called "wolf derby" in Salmon in December.
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Today, the state's wolf population is estimated to be around 680 animals, according to the Idaho Department of Fish and Game. Last year, Otter vetoed a bill that would have diverted money from Fish and Game to a wolf management fund.
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