November 2, 2009

Waterbury, Vt. (AP) – Vermont officials are reissuing warnings about importing possibly tainted deer and elk meat to the state. The Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife, which is trying to avoid the spread of chronic wasting disease, says it’s illegal and subject to fines up to $1,000 and loss of a hunting license to […]

Butte, Mont. (AP) – The Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks has determined that the shooting of a cougar by a 14-year-old elk hunter from Anaconda was justified. Game warden Shane Yaskus says the cougar measured about 7 feet long from nose to tail. Eric Boyd was waiting at an outcropping last week while

St. Paul, Minn. (AP) – The “World’s Original Ice Fishing Contest” will return to the St. Paul Winter Carnival this year, if Mother Nature cooperates. The event once drew up to 10,000 people to White Bear Lake for a cold day of fishing and prizes, and a chance to be listed on the contest’s traveling

Columbia, S.C. (AP) – Hunters may find it more difficult to bag a wild turkey in South Carolina next spring. The state Natural Resources Department said Thursday it found wild turkey reproduction decreased in 2009 and that’s expected to have an impact during next spring’s hunting season. Charles Ruth, the department’s deer and turkey project

Bismarck, N.D. (AP) – The North Dakota Game and Fish Department once again will be collecting deer head samples for its chronic wasting disease surveillance program. Officials this year are collecting samples from western and northeastern North Dakota. The samples also will be tested for bovine tuberculosis, which can spread from deer to cattle. State

Concord, N.H. (AP) – Hunters killed 341 moose in New Hampshire’s nine-day moose hunting season. Fish and Game officials are calling the season a success, since 65 percent of the 522 hunters who were issued permits took home a moose. Fish and Game says more than half the animals killed this year were males. This

Loncoln, Neb. (AP) – Another type of nontoxic shot is available to waterfowl hunters in Nebraska and other states. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has approved for immediate use tungsten-iron-polymer shot for hunting waterfowl and coots. There now are 12 types nontoxic shot approved for loading into shotgun shells for hunting. Nebraska law says