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The Idaho Statesman Pete Zimowsky column

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I live near that area and coyotes are very common. If coyotes approach, keep your dogs under control, act big by yelling and waving your arms, and start backing away. Show them you know it's their territory and you plan to leave. Fish and Game has not had reports of overly aggressive coyotes in the area.
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Moose study set for northwest N.D.

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...wildlife capture will collar 20 cow moose along the Missouri River bottoms near Williston and 20 cow moose in a survey block near Kenmare, N.D., which features more open prairie and agricultural land. Both study areas are in moose hunting unit M10; the Kenmare study block covers 1,496 square miles, and the Upper Missouri River survey area encompasses 65 square miles. "What we have going on there, what Game and Fish has noticed, is quite a few moose wintering along the river and...
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The Idaho Statesman Rocky Barker column

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Jan. 20--Salmon and steelhead are further away from extinction than they were a decade ago. Those include the surface passage devices dam managers have added to several of the eight dams between Idaho and the Pacific. That means better fishing this spring but numbers that are still nowhere near what Idaho could expect from a recovered healthy population of 70,000 to more than 100,000 wild fish.
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Minnesota DNR maps go mobile

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For hunters, boundaries of state wildlife management areas, walk-in access hunting grounds, hunter walking trails and federal waterfowl production areas will be assets. Lime said "within weeks" he hopes the ability to mark locations, known as waypoints, on maps should become available. Currently, deer and wolf hunting zones can be overlaid on a map, but not waterfowl or turkey zones.
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Drought, American River flows affects Steelhead and Salmon

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Unlike fall-run salmon, steelhead are protected by the Endangered Species Act. Without reducing water releases to the river, and without a return to normal winter weather, water agencies such as San Juan Water District would risk running out of water by March. The survey found that many imperiled fish species remain near historic lows, including Delta smelt, longfin smelt and striped bass.
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