March 20, 2009

Spring Turkey Hunting Update:  Random daily drawings continue for remaining permits for the 2009 Spring Wild Turkey Hunting season in Illinois.  Applications for turkey hunting seasons must be submitted no later than three weeks prior to the start of the selected season (see season dates below).  Hunters can print out and mail in an application […]

Nashville – The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Commission held its March meeting on Wednesday, the first with Ed Carter presiding as Executive Director of the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency. The meeting was conducted in a special one-day session at TWRA’s Region II Ray Bell Office Building. The former Chief of TWRA’s Boating Division, Carter assumed his

Kalispell, Mont. (AP) – Here’s a fish tale that could use a little exaggeration. A Kalispell man ice fishing on Bitterroot Lake in northwestern Montana on Tuesday caught a fish so big that it tied a state record. The pygmy whitefish weighed in at a whopping 3.7 ounces and measured 8 1/4 inches. “My arm

At the request of the Alabama Conservation Advisory Board, Conservation Commissioner Barnett Lawley has issued an emergency regulation to make it easier for landowners and leaseholders to acquire crop depredation permits for feral swine and coyotes. The affected landowners and leaseholders will no longer be required to prove crop or property damage before a depredation

Albuquerque – The Department of Game and Fish is reminding hunters to obtain a free customer identification number — new this year — before applying for hunting licenses or permits in the annual drawings. The numbers must be obtained before the April 8 application deadline for 2009-2010 hunts whether applications are made online or on

Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks is proposing the FWP Commission acquire the Neal Ranch, comprising 3,278 acres, along the Rocky Mountain Front and add it to the Sun River Wildlife Management Area, which it adjoins. FWP Region 4 acting supervisor Graham Taylor made the decision March 18 after reviewing a draft environmental assessment on the

A syndrome that attacks hibernating bats is much more severe in Connecticut this winter than last and will lead to a dramatic reduction in the size of the state’s bat population this summer, according to wildlife experts at the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection (DEP). The DEP says visits to Connecticut’s two major winter hibernaculas