Oct. 17--TWIN FALLS -- After Jeff Frost bought a local taxidermy business eight years ago, he started receiving requests to get involved with conservation groups. Last year, more than 200 people participated. There are rifle, muzzleloader and archery divisions for mule deer, elk and antelope. First-place winners will take home a shoulder mount from Intermountain Taxidermy and World Adventures and a $300 gift card to Sportsman's Warehouse.
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Last year, the 10-week derby produced 23 legal-size (more than 22 inches long) hatchery-marked Chinook for 46 anglers. Like Pinocchio, Tengu's nose grew with every lie. In the derby, only mooching (fishing using a banana-style lead weight to a leader with a herring) is allowed. Rental boats are $65, and $85 for boat and motor.
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...meeting Wednesday. The meeting -- set for 6:30 p.m. at Loews Ventana Canyon resort, 7000 N. Resort Drive -- will be conducted by the Arizona Game and Fish Department, the Coronado National Forest and an advisory committee from wildlife and environmental groups. Mark Hart, spokesman for the Game and Fish Department, said plans call for capturing bighorns on the U.S. Army's Yuma Proving Ground northeast of Yuma on Nov. 16 and trucking them to the Catalina Mountains north of Tucson...
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He couldn't see or hear or smell because his head was so badly burned. Three other adult bears were found dead nearby, Mcleod said. Local populations of bears, deer and other relatively common animals are expected to recover.
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I talked to wildlife biologists, enforcement officers and other hunters. By coincidence, the only other cow-tag hunter we saw during the season parked his rig by our camp that morning. I went a day without seeing or hearing an elk. Maybe this is why hunters don't gloat when they draw a cow tag.
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The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources warns hunters about the potential dangers of hunting in open water late in the season. Many open-water hunters use layout boats. A layout boat is a one- or two-person boat with a very shallow draft and extremely low sides. Do not hunt during rough weather and stormy conditions. --Most duck boats don't make good tender boats.
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That year, the harvest was 969,000 pheasants. In 1997, a year the pheasant-per-mile index was 2.64, the harvest was 920,000 pheasants. That year was the state's recent high pheasant harvest at about 900,000.
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He and his wife run Creekside Outdoors in Forestville in Chautauqua County. On any given day, the 500-acre site with a high fence includes up to 100 Eurasian boars for the 200 boar hunts he hosts each year.
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In 2012, eight wolves were killed by hunters.
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Their standardized protocol: "fall walleye index netting." Idaho walleye anglers asked for this monitoring. He and Megargle talk quietly about the sizes of walleye they're seeing in the nets. Anglers lately have reported catching smaller walleye, Megargle says. Fish and Game will do its fall walleye index netting next year on Oakley Reservoir, also called Goose Creek Reservoir.
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