Fishing tip: Beat the heat and troll for hungry moonlight walleyes
Record-breaking heat and bugs hindering your urge to wet a line this holiday weekend? Try trolling under a full moon for the region’s most popular freshwater gamefish
Record-setting wet conditions setting stage for epic duck hunt in N.D.?
An annual spring survey by the North Dakota Game and Fish Department estimates 3.98 million breeding ducks in the state.
In Texas lake, invasion of the giant salvinia
Giant salvinia, a highly invasive, free-floating aquatic fern that can double in size in less than a week under ideal growing conditions, is one of the major threats to aquatic ecosystems in Texas.
Where have all the king salmon gone?
Kenai River subsistence rod-and-reel salmon fishing halted due to extremely low numbers.
Pandemic hinders raising of rare whooping cranes for the wild
The COVID-19 pandemic is drastically reducing the number of young whooping cranes to be released this fall to help bring back the world's rarest cranes. Zoos and other places where the endangered birds are bred have had to cut not only staff size but use of two techniques to boost the birds' numbers
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Federal agencies move to increase Alaska hunting, trapping
The new rules are designed to allow hunters to kill black and brown bears over bait, black bears including cubs and females with cubs with artificial light at den sites, and wolves and coyotes including pups during the denning season. Hunters can also kill caribou from traveling motorboats and swimming caribou.
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Can new trail camera technology keep hunters out of the woods longer, and save money?
For first time, white-nose syndrome attributed to bat deaths in N.D.
And it's just the second time the disease has been detected in bats in the state.
Iowa spring turkey season is one for the record books
Iowa hunters reported harvesting more than 14,600 turkeys during the spring season, which is the highest spring turkey harvest since mandatory harvest reporting began in 2007. The previous high was 12,173 in 2016.
Traditional bikers, e-bikers clash over new trail rules
Thousands of public land users are flooding the public comment portals in what is emerging as one of the most controversial rules in years for the Bureau of Land Management.
Grizzly attacks shed hunter in western Wyoming
And a boater suffered non-life-threatening injuries after he also surprised a grizzly with a cub.
Five moose poached in already-thinning northeastern North Dakota
Five adult moose, including two bulls and three cows, were shot and killed sometime around April 25 through April 30 southwest of Dunseith. One of the cows was pregnant with triplets and had two calves cut out of her.
Elk hoof disease found in California for first time
The disease was first discovered in elk in Washington state in the 1990s and has since been documented in Oregon and Idaho.
Federal, state agencies cancel waterfowl breeding, habitat survey
Officials will use long-term data to predict spring 2020 waterfowl abundance.
Bird-watching soars amid COVID-19 as more Americans head outdoors
With coronavirus restrictions dragging on, interest in bird-watching has soared as bored Americans notice a fascinating world just outside their windows.
Northwestern Wyoming gears up for antler rush
The shed hunting rules and access times shifted this year, both because of COVID-19 and the Wyoming Game and Fish Department bumping the legal start time of the season from midnight April 30 to noon on May 1. As a result, there's a 12-hour period when people can legally hike and ride horses onto the Bridger-Teton National Forest, but not touch the antlers that brought them there.
Study: Whooping crane crowding shows habitat need in Nebraska, Kansas
Disease outbreaks or extreme weather could cause a catastrophic loss of the crane’s current population, according to the study.
In North Dakota, where have all the western meadowlarks gone?
Avid birders and people who grew up in the Midwest can identify them by their song alone. But that song is being heard less and less here.
Cattle conflicts prompt killing of endangered Mexican wolves
Documents made public last week show the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service took the action in March after hazing, diversionary food caches and other non-lethal means failed to get the predators to stop killing cattle in two rural areas of western New Mexico.
Missouri plans its first elk hunt this fall after herd grows
For the first time in its modern history, Missouri will offer an elk hunting season later this year, with five permits drawn in a lottery.
Interior Department proposes expansion of hunting, fishing opportunities
New hunting and fishing opportunities across 2.3 million acres at 97 national wildlife refuges and 9 national fish hatcheries.
Spring fishing tip: Have some fun catching carp and suckers on a local river or stream
Beat “stay-in-place”-induced cabin fever by targeting rough fish in a hard-running river near you.
Conservation in the midst of a crisis
Ducks Unlimited staff find creative solutions to keep habitat restoration on track.
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