Most of the spread has more to do with highways than hooves. Both biologists blame hunters wanting to establish feral hog populations near their homes for the spread. They also banned all but landowners from sport hunting wild swine, too. Salter said the lone exception is in a Bourbon County in southeast Kansas, where some landowners desire feral pigs so they can hunt them with dogs.
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POWELL, WY -Western hunting mapping is about to change at download speed. Eastmans', the original resource for western big game hunting and onXMaps, the trusted source for private and public land ownership mapping technology, announced a partnership today to provide western big game hunters a clear path to hunting maps. "There is one constant in hunting, the inconsistency of hunt unit boundaries, private land ownership and not to mention property lines, roads and trails." said Eastmans' President, Ike Eastman. "We're excited to partner with onXmaps. Their hunting maps for mobile devices offers many advantages to the DIY hunter." "onXmaps is excited to be partnering with the Eastmans' family. The Eastmans' brand represents the hard working, DIY attitude that our digital…
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The limit will be five elk in southwest and southeast Oklahoma. That number is excluding the elk taken in the controlled hunts or the elk hunts already established on private land in Kiowa, Comanche and Caddo counties, where elk have escaped to from the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge. The elk herd in southeast Oklahoma is about 250, and state wildlife officials hope that legalizing an elk hunting season will deter poaching in the region. "There are a lot of elk getting killed...
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Washington, DC - Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe has signed Sunday hunting into law, allowing Virginia to join the 40 other states that allow hunting on privately owned lands on Sundays. Sponsored by Delegate Todd Gilbert, and cosponsored by many members of the Virginia Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus, HB 1237 passed the Senate on February 18 (28-11) after clearing the House of Delegates on January 30 (71-27). An identical bill (SB 154) sponsored by Senator Phillip Puckett also reached the Governor's desk, after passing the Senate on February 10 (29-10) and later the House on February 28 (73-24).With written permission of the landowner, Sunday hunting will now be allowed on private lands throughout Virginia; waterfowl hunting on public waters will likewise be…
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Entrants need not reside in California. The winning artwork will be reproduced on the 2014-2015 California Duck Stamp.
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...and Game's proposed changes for the 2014 big game hunting seasons are available online for public review and comment. The proposals are listed by region at http://fishandgame.idaho.gov/public/hunt/?getPage336. Only those seasons and hunts for which changes are proposed are listed. All others will remain the same as they were during the 2013 hunting season, Fish and Game said. All comments received by March 9 will be summarized and presented to the Idaho Fish and Game...
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Cincinnati, Ohio- After more than 30 years living in metropolitan Detroit, Kristen Schmitt moved to the Green Mountains in Vermont and now she's determined to make hunting part of her new life. Schmitt teamed up with Deer & Deer Hunting to chronicle her journey from novice to her first hunt in the brand new blog, City Roots to Hunting Boots, which debuts on March 5. Schmitt spent twelve years working at a business law firm in Detroit before deciding to move her family to Vermont in search of a more meaningful, family-oriented lifestyle. It was here in the Green Mountains that Schmitt resolved to educate herself on sustainable living and train for her first hunt, a pursuit that she will…
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QDM Co-Ops Enjoy Higher Hunt Satisfaction Deer hunters who participate in Quality Deer Management (QDM) Cooperatives enjoy nearly twice the level of hunting satisfaction that other deer hunters experience, according to new research from Michigan State University (MSU) that appears in an upcoming issue of QDMA's Quality Whitetails magazine. MSU graduate student Anna Mitterling surveyed 350 members of 16 different QDM Cooperatives covering 90,000 acres in south central Michigan for her Master's thesis in Fisheries and Wildlife. She found satisfaction levels among the hunters increased from 45 percent before to 75 percent after they became involved in a QDM Cooperative. That's much higher than the 46 percent satisfaction rate among all Michigan deer hunters measured by Michigan DNR around the…
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Birds of the prairie, Hungarian partridges often hunker along roadsides to pick at gravel or exposed food sources such as seeds or waste grains. Deep snow and thick ice can combine to reduce sunlight penetration and halt the production of oxygen, especially on smaller, more shallow lakes. When that happens, winterkill occurs.
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Last year, the state issued 240,647 hunting licenses. The DFW verified 10 hunting accidents (two that were fatal), about average for a year, according Sarah Brar at DFW headquarters in Sacramento. In 2013, lead was banned as ammunition for hunting. B. Nowhere.
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