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Outdoors News, Big Bears Harvested in PA in 2013

By Hunting
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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Options to Save Sage Grouse Differ Greatly

By Issues
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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Wolf trappers look for support

By Wolves
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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The Idaho Statesman Pete Zimowsky column

By Hunting
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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Moose study set for northwest N.D.

By Hunting
...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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The Idaho Statesman Rocky Barker column

By Hunting, Issues
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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