January 27, 2009

Nashville – The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency (TWRA) is soliciting comments for its 2009-10 hunting seasons’ regulations. This is an opportunity for the public to share ideas and concerns about hunting regulations with TWRA staff. Public comments will be considered by TWRA’s Wildlife Division staff and may be presented as proposals for regulation changes. Comments […]

Concord, N.H. – Educators who want to introduce their students in grades 3-6 to New Hampshire’s wildlife resources — or reinforce wildlife-related lessons they have learned — have until February 27 to request spring 2009 Wonders of Wildlife (WOW) presentations by New Hampshire Fish and Game Department volunteer docents. Wonders of Wildlife is a series

Little Rock – Arkansas Game and Fish Commission Director Scott Henderson will be returning to a full-time work schedule. Due to an illness, Henderson had been working on a part-time basis since late July 2008. Commission chairman Freddie Black made the announcement at today’s monthly meeting of the AGFC. During the short meeting, commissioners were

Concord, N.H. – Two Lakes Region men, Joseph Townsend, age 21, and Richard McNeil, age 25, both of Moultonborough, were convicted January 21, 2009, in Southern Carroll County District Court for illegally harvesting a moose last October in Sandwich.  On November 10, 2008, New Hampshire Fish and Game Department Law Enforcement learned about the incident

Concord, N.H. – Wildlife watchers participating in the New Hampshire portion of the 2009 National Mid-winter Bald Eagle Survey located a record-high total of 74 bald eagles during a two-week count period earlier this month.  The statewide effort was coordinated by New Hampshire Audubon in collaboration with the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department’s Nongame

Raleigh, N.C. (Jan. 21, 2009) – The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission has set new dates for two public hearings that were canceled this week due to inclement weather. The new date for the public hearing in New Bern is set for Jan. 28 at 7 p.m. at the Craven County Courthouse. The public hearing in

Frankfort, Ky. – In half a century, Kentucky’s white-tailed deer herd grew from 1,000 animals to a million today. Wild turkeys increased from about 800 birds to a quarter-million, and we are now home to 10,000 free-ranging elk, the largest elk population east of the Rocky Mountains. All are now hunted in Kentucky. A new

Kenai, Alaska (AP) — Two new reports shed light on the financial impact the commercial and sportfishing industries bring to the state. A Department of Fish and Game report says sportfishing generated nearly $1.4 billion for the state in 2007. The industry also supported more than 15,800 jobs. A second report on commercial fishing says