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Quality Game Meat-Rich Landers column

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...elk and deer meat still warm, especially in its core, soured by putting the warm meat in coolers and also plastic bags," he said. "Many conversations with meat locker-butcher shops during facility inspections over the years confirm that this is a common error in packing/storing warm elk and deer meat. "One case, for example, involved poachers using ORVs who had killed two elk on National Forest Land, boned out the bulls and neatly wrapped all of the meat in black plastic bags. The meat...
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3 Deer Hunting Tales from the Check Station

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All announced success or failure by choosing a lane of traffic cones. One lane for hunters who harvested deer on the opening weekend of Idaho's regular deer season. Admiration colored Woolley's voice as he described a deer. "That's what you come to Idaho for. If deer were only field dressed and not cut up, biologists weighed them too.
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Bucks and Bulls Contest Gives Hunters Bragging Rights, Prizes

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Oct. 17--TWIN FALLS -- After Jeff Frost bought a local taxidermy business eight years ago, he started receiving requests to get involved with conservation groups. Last year, more than 200 people participated. There are rifle, muzzleloader and archery divisions for mule deer, elk and antelope. First-place winners will take home a shoulder mount from Intermountain Taxidermy and World Adventures and a $300 gift card to Sportsman's Warehouse.
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Meeting on bighorn sheep project

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...meeting Wednesday. The meeting -- set for 6:30 p.m. at Loews Ventana Canyon resort, 7000 N. Resort Drive -- will be conducted by the Arizona Game and Fish Department, the Coronado National Forest and an advisory committee from wildlife and environmental groups. Mark Hart, spokesman for the Game and Fish Department, said plans call for capturing bighorns on the U.S. Army's Yuma Proving Ground northeast of Yuma on Nov. 16 and trucking them to the Catalina Mountains north of Tucson...
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Walleye Netting Probes Salmon Falls Fishery

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Their standardized protocol: "fall walleye index netting." Idaho walleye anglers asked for this monitoring. He and Megargle talk quietly about the sizes of walleye they're seeing in the nets. Anglers lately have reported catching smaller walleye, Megargle says. Fish and Game will do its fall walleye index netting next year on Oakley Reservoir, also called Goose Creek Reservoir.
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