National and News

CWD Proclamation Signed for North Dakota

The 2012 proclamation establishing guidelines for transporting deer, elk and moose carcasses and carcass parts into and within North Dakota is now in effect as a precaution against the possible spread of chronic wasting disease.

North Dakota Game and Fish Department

Idaho's Nonresident Deer and Elk Tag Quotas

Information for Nonresident Deer and Elk Tag Quotas for Idaho has recently been updated.

Idaho Department of Fish and Game

North Dakota deer hunting licenses to drop 40 percent

North Dakota's Game and Fish Department is making just 65,300 deer licenses available for the 2012 season, a drop of more than 40 percent from last year

North Carolina faces same problem as many states: wild hogs

Wildlife officials in North Carolina have endorsed hunting wild pigs after dark without a license

By Jay Price The News & Observer of Raleigh

Missouri regular spring turkey harvest totals 40,447

Hunters checked 40,447 turkeys during Missouri’s regular spring turkey season, up by 2,120 from 38,327 last spring, or about 5.5 percent

Missouri Department of Conservation

Bighorn Sheep Herd Continues to Decline in Thompson Falls, Montana

Based on recent surveys, the bighorn sheep herd in the Thompson Falls area continues to decline

Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks

Nevada officials eye increase in hunting tags

Nevada wildlife biologists are recommending an increase in the number of big game hunting tags issued this year after back-to-back winters of different extremes created optimum conditions for wildlife

By Sandra Chereb Associated Press

Utah to boost elk numbers

More elk will be heard bugling under changes sought by wildlife managers to increase herds across much of Utah

Computer glitch hampers Alaska deer hunt reporting

A computer glitch has resulted in incomplete totals from data submitted online by Sitka blacktail deer hunters around Alaska, according to state officials

Idaho officials aim to delist woodland caribou

Bonner County officials who want federal protections removed from woodland caribou have hired the law firm that successfully argued before the U.S. Supreme Court a northern Idaho couple's wetlands dispute.