Whitetails Unlimited chapters throughout the country raise funds to cover venison donation programs. As of Thursday, hunters had taken just 19 wolves overall. In wolf management unit "A" in Gogebic County in the far western Upper Peninsula, five wolves have been taken toward a target harvest of 16.
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HSH truly does make a tremendous difference." Started in 1991, HSH has developed into a refined support service for organizations that assist the Commonwealth's needy. If the hunter is donating an entire deer, he or she is asked to make a $15 tax-deductible co-pay, and HSH will cover the remaining processing fees. However, a hunter can cover the entire cost of the processing, which is tax-deductible as well.
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Corbett, said the governor does not hunt, but "he supports hunting for wildlife conservation management and as a great American tradition." Sen.
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Jamie, hunting on public land, saw eight deer, including three bucks. On Friday night, when Vee husbands, Vee wives, Vee kids and Vee friends gathered for the traditional pre-opener dinner, the bucks looked down with detached indifference on the proceedings. During muzzleloader season, the biggest bucks can be lured to feed during daylight hours, Scott Vee said.
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But in 2009, when it raised non-resident fees, three things went wrong -- out-of-state fees spiked, the hunting was beginning to be affected by wolves and the economy tanked.
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...bird dogs, Cox said. "Quail is a huge improvement over last year," said James Dietsch of Warr Acres, the founding chairman of the Central Oklahoma 89er Chapter of Quail Forever. "I have probably seen 30 to 35 coveys. We haven't seen a covey under 12 birds." Dietsch also jumped three roosters while quail hunting north of Woodward last week. "I am looking forward to pheasant season," he said. "It's got to be better than last year. The hatching and nesting conditions were a...
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They aren't sure why. Deer and elk tend to feed in separate places. Elk can winter on the prairie, while deer prefer foothills. In mild winters, some deer will stay in the mountains.
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On the eastside, anglers are still reeling in hatchery-reared summer steelhead on the upper Columbia and Snake rivers. Rather serve shellfish? Sport crabbing is open in most marine areas of Puget Sound seven days a week through Dec. 31. Archery hunts for deer and elk get started Nov. 27, when muzzleloader hunts for elk also get under way.
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...fish and wildlife association and the five states' wildlife agencies have produced a sound conservation plan for the lesser prairie chicken," said Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dan Ashe. The federal agency's news release, however made it clear that its endorsement of the plan is "not a decision by the Service that implementing the plan will preclude the need to protect the lesser prairie chicken under the Endangered Species Act. The Service will carefully consider the plan, its...
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...in Northwest Montana Region One. Hunters have checked 197 whitetails so far, including 162 bucks, along with 48 mule deer and 28 elk for a 4.7 percent rate of hunters with game. That compares to 5,377 hunters with 255 whitetails (including 221 bucks), 19 mule deer and 38 elk at this point in the season last year. Jim Williams, regional wildlife manager for Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, predicted that, based on past trends, the deer and elk harvest should pick up each...
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