Statewide, 780 bears were taken during extended seasons, which are open in select wildlife-management units. Acorns are a highly sought-after food by bears in the fall. The button is an optional purchase for anglers and will be $5 each, available through the PFBC's online store (The Outdoor Shop) and at some PFBC locations.
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Knox said deer were forced into more compact areas where they could find food rather than spreading out. Dishonest hunters can call in to report that they have killed a doe so they can have permission to legally shoot a buck, he explained. When approaching a group of deer, a hunter may only get a single shot that spooks the rest of the deer.
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It would make 8.3 million acres priority habitat and 2.9 million acres general habitat. Mining would be mostly closed in priority habitat but open in general habitat. Oil and gas development would be closed in priority habitat and restricted to no surface disturbance in general habitat. It would make all 11.2 million acres priority habitat.
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Those who join and successfully trap a wolf are eligible to be reimbursed up to $500 for the expenses they incur. About 30 people attended the meeting Thursday at the Clearwater Regional Office of the Idaho Department of Fish and Game. But they quickly realized trapping was time-consuming and expensive.
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I live near that area and coyotes are very common. If coyotes approach, keep your dogs under control, act big by yelling and waving your arms, and start backing away. Show them you know it's their territory and you plan to leave. Fish and Game has not had reports of overly aggressive coyotes in the area.
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The fee-increase bill hasn’t yet been introduced, but the piece letting Fish & Game discount three-year licenses was introduced today in the House Resources Committee.
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...wildlife capture will collar 20 cow moose along the Missouri River bottoms near Williston and 20 cow moose in a survey block near Kenmare, N.D., which features more open prairie and agricultural land. Both study areas are in moose hunting unit M10; the Kenmare study block covers 1,496 square miles, and the Upper Missouri River survey area encompasses 65 square miles. "What we have going on there, what Game and Fish has noticed, is quite a few moose wintering along the river and...
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Jan. 20--Salmon and steelhead are further away from extinction than they were a decade ago. Those include the surface passage devices dam managers have added to several of the eight dams between Idaho and the Pacific. That means better fishing this spring but numbers that are still nowhere near what Idaho could expect from a recovered healthy population of 70,000 to more than 100,000 wild fish.
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Johnson said he wants the names made public. As for the demands of Johnson's petition, McInenly said the DNR reviews each zone every year. Am I satisfied, if you ask me that question? Yeah, but is it fun for me to walk into the tavern when no one there is seeing any deer?
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Whereas blacks in the South held sit-ins to protest segregated facilities, the tribes began to hold fish-ins. When Adams heard that Brando wanted to join a fishing protest in Washington, he saw it as a way to break through white indifference. He also ended state restrictions on tribal fishermen.
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