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Hunt ends with better numbers than 2012

By Wolves
...check stations on weekends during the five-week general hunting season. They checked 1,112 whitetail deer (including 985 bucks), 134 mule deer and 56 elk -- meaning 7.1 percent of hunters were successful. Last year's season ended with 17,635 hunters stopping with 941 whitetail deer (including 830 bucks), 131 mule deer and 78 elk for a 6.5 percentage of hunters with game. John Vore, a biologist with Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, noted the number of whitetail bucks was...
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Deer season news

By Hunting
HSH truly does make a tremendous difference." Started in 1991, HSH has developed into a refined support service for organizations that assist the Commonwealth's needy. If the hunter is donating an entire deer, he or she is asked to make a $15 tax-deductible co-pay, and HSH will cover the remaining processing fees. However, a hunter can cover the entire cost of the processing, which is tax-deductible as well.
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Group crafts vision for North Fork area

By Issues
...a recommendation for just over 80,000 acres of recommended wilderness in the Thompson-Seton, Tuchuck, and Mt. Hefty areas at the north end of the Whitefish Range, Jamison said. That recommendation closely resembles what the Flathead Forest included in a draft forest plan that had to be abandoned because of litigation in 2006. But it still represents compromise, because there have been proposals in the past for more than 200,000 acres of recommended wilderness in the North Fork, Jamison...
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