National Fishing

An Oregon hunter who is remaining anonymous has paid $120,000 for Idaho’s auction bighorn sheep permit. The permit was sold at the recent Wild Sheep Foundation’s annual convention in Salt Lake City. The Wild Sheep

More than 1,180 pounds of summer flounder and black sea bass, worth approximately $2,400, was seized this weekend by officers from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC)’s Marine Enforcement Unit during a

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

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

Washington (AP) — A New York congresswoman has again introduced a wide-reaching wilderness protection bill that would ban logging, oil exploration and other development on 23 million acres across five Northwestern states. As in previous

St. Paul, Minn. (AP) — The state agency charged with protecting Minnesota’s multibillion-dollar fishing industry from diseases allowed a virus potentially dangerous to fish into the state last year. Last May, the Minnesota DNR mistakenly

The wait is over for anglers and hunters who have been anxious to buy their 2009-2010 fishing and hunting licenses. Licenses and all stamps, including the state duck stamp, are available at Nevada Department of

As all the gear gets packed away until next fall, Iowa hunters can look back at an overall safe hunting year. While 2008 did record a firearm-related hunting death—in Hamilton County in September-and nearly a

So far four Chinook salmon have been counted at the Bonneville Dam on the Columbia River, but all were headed downstream. Still, the early forecast is a for a good Chinook fishing season in Idaho