On the eastside, anglers are still reeling in hatchery-reared summer steelhead on the upper Columbia and Snake rivers. Rather serve shellfish? Sport crabbing is open in most marine areas of Puget Sound seven days a week through Dec. 31. Archery hunts for deer and elk get started Nov. 27, when muzzleloader hunts for elk also get under way.
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...fish and wildlife association and the five states' wildlife agencies have produced a sound conservation plan for the lesser prairie chicken," said Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dan Ashe. The federal agency's news release, however made it clear that its endorsement of the plan is "not a decision by the Service that implementing the plan will preclude the need to protect the lesser prairie chicken under the Endangered Species Act. The Service will carefully consider the plan, its...
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...in Northwest Montana Region One. Hunters have checked 197 whitetails so far, including 162 bucks, along with 48 mule deer and 28 elk for a 4.7 percent rate of hunters with game. That compares to 5,377 hunters with 255 whitetails (including 221 bucks), 19 mule deer and 38 elk at this point in the season last year. Jim Williams, regional wildlife manager for Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, predicted that, based on past trends, the deer and elk harvest should pick up each...
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...said Bernhardt, 30, a Grand Forks Realtor. "It's always something scheduled in at the same time of year." This year, though, Bernhardt, of Grand Forks, didn't draw a deer tag. In response to declining deer populations, the North Dakota Game and Fish Department this fall offered only 59,500 licenses for the deer gun season, the lowest number in 30 years. That puts Bernhardt in the same position as some 44,000 other North Dakota residents who didn't draw licenses in the deer...
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...rut occurs differently in different states, Jensen had this to say: "When elk/red deer have been translocated to the Southern Hemisphere (e.g., New Zealand) they switch to the spring equinox." Across North America, by comparison, there's not much difference in the timing of the rut, Jensen said. "There may be a few days difference, but for all practical purposes, they are all about the same time," he said. If you have a question for Talkin' with Dokken,...
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He wanted his 7-year-old son to experience a Fourth of July on the beach, but for the seventh year in a row, nesting plovers closed off all the trails heading south from Nauset. Because Massachusetts has its own Endangered Species Act, towns also need state conservation and management permits. Much like the proposal in Winthrop, the town felt the rebuilding would help create new plover habitat as erosion washed the dunes away over time.
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The western population was reclassified as endangered that same year. The process to delist the sea lions has been underway since a 2010 review and the subsequent state petitions. Some California rockeries have been abandoned, and sea lions there are not as well off as their farther north counterparts. The act limits the taking of marine mammals, reviews projects with potential impacts, and calls for a triennial look at abundance and trends in the population.
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The Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation's roadside quail surveys show a 31 percent increase from last year. The bad news? Now, there are very few of us left. "I am still feeding bird dogs. They don't care if there is very little quail out there.
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...trout in the river will have attached tags worth $100, $50 and $20 for the anglers who catch them. The number of tagged trout totals $1,000. For more information on the derby, call (580) 371-9288 or (580) 371-2175. PADDLEFISH, NOODLING REGULATIONS MAY CHANGE State wildlife officials are proposing new fishing regulations involving paddlefish and noodling for catfish. Currently, anglers are allowed to keep one paddlefish per day. However, state wildlife officials...
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