Mike Peifer, R-139, Honesdale, thinks Pennsylvania hunters need a reason to hunt coyotes. Peifer has introduced HB 1534, a bill that would allow the Pennsylvania Game Commission to offer a $25 payment per coyote. Bearer said the organization has not seen any negative effects of the coyote's population boom. Mr.
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The Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation's roadside quail surveys show a 31 percent increase from last year. The bad news? Now, there are very few of us left. "I am still feeding bird dogs. They don't care if there is very little quail out there.
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Since 2007, the state also has offered five wildlife-themed specialized plates that help fund programs.
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Northeast North Dakota, including hunting units 2B and 2C near Grand Forks, saw some of the biggest reductions in tags, Kreil said. This past summer, the wildlife chief wrote a letter to a disappointed hunter who was lamenting the decline in deer numbers.
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Oct. 27--PORT CLINTON -- The Lake Erie water temperature off nearby Catawba Island on Saturday was 53 degrees, and falling. Use a cell phone to text or call in updates if your plans change. Flaggers and workers will be in Berrien, Calhoun, Cass, Ingham, Jackson, Kalamazoo, Livingston, Macomb, Oakland, St.
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Given that requirement, he said it's unlikely they could drift the 450 river miles from Wahpeton to Lake Winnipeg without adult zebra mussels showing up somewhere along the way.
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Oct. 27--MOMBASA, Kenya Every day, 96 elephants are gunned down in Africa. Among them were19 Chinese, nine Vietnamese, six Tanzanian, three Thai, one American and one South Sudanese, Mbugua said. "The dog cannot be fooled. About 35,000 were lost in 2012 alone." Last year, Kenya lost 384 elephants.
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...-- Turkey outfitters aren't giving up hope that they can overturn a recent decision to allow guided waterfowl hunts in Idaho. In September, the Idaho Outfitters and Guides Licensing Board lifted a 25-year moratorium on guided turkey and waterfowl hunts in Idaho. Back then, the state Department of Fish and Game feared landowners would lease land to licensed outtfitters or clubs and result in a loss of public hunting access. The board's decision is considered a legislative rule...
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I talked to wildlife biologists, enforcement officers and other hunters. By coincidence, the only other cow-tag hunter we saw during the season parked his rig by our camp that morning. I went a day without seeing or hearing an elk. Maybe this is why hunters don't gloat when they draw a cow tag.
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That year, the harvest was 969,000 pheasants. In 1997, a year the pheasant-per-mile index was 2.64, the harvest was 920,000 pheasants. That year was the state's recent high pheasant harvest at about 900,000.
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