Hunters interested in participating this year in game-damage hunts on private land, possible management seasons, or potential management removals of elk to reduce the risk of brucellosis transmission between elk and livestock can register online with Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks beginning June 15. Additionally, should opportunities emerge to offer antlerless deer B licenses for use during the archery and general seasons, those too would be awarded through the Hunt Roster. Prospective hunters must register for the Hunt Roster online between June 15 and July 15 at fwp.mt.gov. Click "Hunt Roster". Internet-based registration can be completed on personal computers, at most public libraries, and at any FWP office. To register, hunters will need their ALS number. Game damage occurs when…
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Subsistence fishers must also use setnets; no drift nets are allowed this summer. Alaska's hatchery fish are not factored into those numbers. This winter, Southeast Alaska trollers caught about 14,000 kings. Federal managers have shut down the subsistence king fishery on the Stikine River.
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...deer tag deadline is June 4 June 4 is the deadline for North Dakota deer hunters to apply for a 2014 gun season license. Hunters are encouraged to apply online at the State Game and Fish Department website, gf.nd.gov. The deadline applies to muzzleloader, regular gun, gratis and nonresident landowner, and youth antlered mule deer applications (specifically for antlered mule deer in units 3B1, 3B2 and 4A through 4F). Gratis applications received on or before the June 4...
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But they have to pay the full nonresident price -- $301 for deer and $416 for elk. Setting the price will be key, Gould said. Gould said over-winter survival of mule deer populations has been above average for the past three years and peaked at 80 percent last year.
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Some guy back east was really looking at the property for a summer home, but he couldn't quite come up with the money, so that was a good thing in our favor.
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Idaho Department of Fish and Game is asking for the public's help regarding the recent poaching of an elk calf on Long Gulch Road, north of the town of Prairie, about 40 miles north of Mountain Home. The poaching incident occurred sometime between May 12th and 14th. Responding to the initial report, Fish and Game conservation officer Joey Ishida found the calf shot and left to waste about 25 yards off the Long Gulch Road. There is no open hunting season for elk in the Prairie...
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The issue was on the ballots in Lewis and Gilmer counties as well, but did not pass. This time around, voters approved the measure 877 for and 729 against.
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Hunters who have been afield during this spring's general statewide turkey hunt are finding good success-especially in southern Utah. If you don't have a permit for the hunt yet, it's not too late to get one. The hunt runs until May 31. Permits aren't limited in number, so you'll have no problem getting one. You can buy a permit at www.wildlife.utah.gov. Permits are also available from more than 300 hunting license agents across Utah and at Division of Wildlife Resources offices. Tips and tactics to help you take a turkey are available at www.wildlife.utah.gov/hunting-in-utah/hunting-information/upland-game.html. After you arrive at the Web page, scroll down to 'Resources for turkey hunters.' A list of Walk-In Access hunting areas is also available on the…
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Currently any recipient can use the tags in any part of a hunt area in which a landowner has drawn an LAP tag.
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Record Grizzly Ignites Questions About Trophy Categories MISSOULA, Mont.--News traveled fast when conservationists learned the largest grizzly bear ever taken by a hunter had been entered into Boone and Crockett records. Nearly as quickly, however, came questions about why grizzlies are distinguished from Alaska brown bears. After all, aren't these technically the same species? The Boone and Crockett Club announced the new record grizzly on May 5. Soon after, an Anchorage, Alaska, newspaper headline chided, "Giant Grizzly is One for Some Record Books, But Not Alaska's." The article pointed out that Ursus arctos does in fact grow to 10 feet tall along the coast, much larger than the newly heralded 9-footer killed far inland near Fairbanks. Why all the fuss…
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