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LITTLE ROCK – Commissioners with the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission last week shortened the turkey season from last year’s total of 18 days to 16 days. The season framework was approved after a review of recent harvests and brood surveys along with input from turkey hunters. The statewide turkey season will be April 14-29 […]

RUSSELLVILLE – Tom Kremers of Clarksville added almost a pound and a half to the state-record shortnose gar mark Sept. 23 when he caught one that weighed 5 pounds, 13 ounces from the Spadra Creek area of Lake Dardanelle. Bob Limbird, an Arkansas Game and Fish Commission district fisheries supervisor, verified the species and Cpl.

LITTLE ROCK – Nine of every 10 persons involved in a boating accident this year had no boating safety training, according to an Arkansas Game and Fish Commission report. There have been 73 mishaps on the water, and these resulted in 15 deaths, according to the report which covers the first 10 months of the

As winter approaches in South Dakota, the Game, Fish and Parks Department reminds hunters of unique opportunities that may exist later this winter to reduce problem-causing wildlife. GFP has an active Wildlife Damage Management Program that assists landowners with depredation-abatement techniques. However, when other methods are not effective, GFP may use willing hunters to help

The Idaho, Oregon and Washington fish and wildlife agencies plan to capture 28 bighorn sheep in four Hells Canyon herds November 28 – 30 as part of the ongoing Hells Canyon Initiative to restore bighorn sheep populations. The sheep will be captured by netgunning from a helicopter and brought to a processing site near the

MONTROSE, Colo. — Colorado Parks and Wildlife is reminding agricultural producers to inspect their fences and enclosures as a precaution to prevent winter damage from wildlife. Every winter, deer and elk look for haystacks, orchards, nurseries and even barns in search of easy meals, explained Mark Caddy, game damage coordinator for Colorado Parks and Wildlife.

CONCORD, N.H. — New Hampshire’s regular firearms deer hunting is going well, as hunters look forward to time afield during the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. Through November 13, 2011, hunters had taken an estimated 6,653 deer in New Hampshire, very similar to the 6,729 registered at this point in the 2010 season. “Thanksgiving week should continue

Warsaw, N.Y. (AP) – The opening weekend of gun season for deer hunting kept state police and environmental conservation officers busy in western New York. State police say troopers and enforcement officers from the Department of Environmental Conservation charged one woman and 12 men in Wyoming County with various violations of New York’s hunting laws.