During the attacks, Dave Dashiell and his employees also were authorized to shoot any wolves they saw in the area, Anderson said. Anderson has written commissioners asking that they rescind the resolution. But commissioners chose to let the resolution stand, Don Dashiell said. Audience comments also focused on the state's wolf management plan, adopted in 2011.
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The confidential information would include just those who have taken an animal, not all licensed hunters and trappers, Fish, Wildlife and Parks spokesman Ron Aasheim said.
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...deer hunters tend be roughly split between mule deer hunters in the south and east, and whitetail hunters in the north and central parts of the state. Last year's harvest was split 53 percent mule deer and 47 percent whitetails. Whitetail hunters tend to have a higher success rate because of long seasons, generous doe hunting and open hunts during the November rut. Most mule deer hunters are limited to about three weeks in October and buck-only hunting. Harvest...
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No doubt we've lost a lot of habitat, and we're going to lose a lot. The trend is downward, but it seems contradictory. "Why are ducks going up? North Dakota's CRP acreage peaked at more than 3 million acres in 2006 and now stands at less than 1 million acres.
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...prairie chickens thrive. "We've tried to develop a system that offers multiple options for landowners," said Sean Kyle, a biologist with Texas Parks and Wildlife. About 170 companies are so far enrolled in the fish and wildlife agencies' plan, he said. In the U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency's Conservation Reserve Program -- another option -- landowners contract with the federal government so the land is not farmed or ranched. Violating the...
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The guys in my country, in Madison and Beaverhead counties, they're doing things to improve habitat. We still have to protect private property and landowners. Montana is unique in that 64 percent of sage grouse habitat in the state is on private lands.
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ting units in the Southeast Region have general mule deer hunting opportunities for antlered deer. So while the harvest held steady, the success rate dropped, but was still a respectable 21 percent overall. Why did hunters buy 5,500 more elk tags? The total elk killed, or the percentage of hunters who were successful? On paper, things are looking better in much of the state for elk hunters.
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But the mountain lion continued to stalk them, which Fish and Wildlife Lt. Patrick Foy was a sign of "extremely unusual behavior." For breaking news in Los Angeles and throughout California, follow @VeronicaRochaLA.
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IDFG spokesman. "The idea behind these mentored hunts is to provide the young participants and their parent (or legal guardian) the opportunity to be paired with an experienced waterfowl hunter who can show them how to hunt ducks and geese. "This quality hunting experience is intended to provide the youth and their guardian the training needed to repeat the experience on their own." Sign up: For the three IDFG hunts, call (208) 769-1414. For the Silver Valley DU hunt, contact...
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People not having a place to hunt, losing land leases, things like that. Our youth hunts are sold out." He said the department has reached out to women, minorities and young people because hunting is important to its conservation program.
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