February 16, 2009

Colorado Springs, Colo. – The Colorado Division of Wildlife is hosting a series of public meetings in southeast Colorado to gather input on big game hunting for the 2010-2014 hunting seasons. The meetings, which are being held throughout the state, are part of the public input process for the agency’s five-year big game hunting season […]

CENTRAL ARKANSAS: Lake Conway: The water is low and fishing has been slow. Bream are slow, but a few redear have been caught on redworms. Crappie are fair on jigs and minnows. Bass are slow. Crappie are biting fairly well around 7 feet deep on white/chartreuse jigs and pink minnows. All other species are slow.

Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) was not detected in the 862 deer collected during the DNR Division of Fish and Wildlife’s 2008 CWD sampling. In every year since 2002, DFW employees have been collecting CWD samples from hunter-harvested deer during the opening weekend of firearm season. Since 2007, these efforts have been supplemented with collecting road-killed

Washington (AP) — A fish wholesaler and his son have pleaded guilty in the largest investigation of illegal commercial fishing in the Chesapeake Bay and Potomac River. The Justice Department says Robert Moore Sr. and his son Robert Moore Jr. entered their pleas Thursday in U.S. District Court in Washington. The elder Moore owns Cannon

The Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources’ (ADCNR) Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries Division (WFF) has designated March 14 – 15 as this year’s Special Youth Turkey Hunting Days. The 2009 spring turkey season runs from March 16 to April 30 for most counties in the state. During the Special Youth Turkey Hunting Days, youth

Olympia, Wash. (AP) — Pamela Almli was less than an hour into a hike on the popular Sauk Mountain Trail in Skagit County when she was killed by a 14-year-old hunter who thought she was a bear. The Aug. 2 accident was a rarity – Almli was the first non-hunter killed by a hunter in

Bats from Pendleton County are being tested for a fungal disease known as white-nose syndrome (WNS), a condition that has killed thousands of cave bats in several species in the Northeast, according to Craig Stihler, wildlife biologist for the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources (WVDNR). The National Wildlife Health Laboratory in Madison, Wisconsin, is

San Francisco (AP) — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will consider whether to protect a rabbit-like, alpine creature known as the American pika because of habitat loss. The decision comes in an agreement announced Thursday with the Center for Biological Diversity and Earthjustice. The groups sued in August to protect the so-called “boulder bunny”

Corps Christi, Texas—Texas Parks and Wildlife Department officials today announced drop-off sites for the 8th Texas Abandoned Crab Trap Removal Program, scheduled this year from Feb. 20 to March 1. During this 10-day period, all Texas bays will be closed to crabbing with crab traps, and any traps left in the bay will be presumed