National Hunting

St. Johnsbury, Vt. (AP) – A 44-year-old Lyndon Center man is being charged with manslaughter in the shooting death of his son while the two hunted for turkeys earlier this month. The Vermont State police

Austin, Texas – Nearly half of the sites in the Texas State Parks system will conduct public hunts during the 2009-2010 hunting season. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission approved scheduled hunts on 44 state

Knoxville, Tenn. (AP) – Federal wildlife officials say a bald eagle, found dead at Norris Lake in February, died of lead poisoning. A release from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service office in Knoxville on

Test results have detected the Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) agent in a total of seven white-tailed deer sampled during the 2009 spring collections in Hampshire County, according to the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources

Pratt – The Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks (KDWP) reports that there were 16 hunting accidents in 2008, with three fatalities, two of which were not actually legal hunting incidents. This is a decrease

The recreational red snapper harvest season in all Gulf of Mexico waters off Florida reopens on June 1. Anglers may take two red snapper daily from Gulf waters during the open season; however, the captain

Austin, Texas – Texas will likely revert this fall to the standard 74-day season and six bird daily bag limit framework for ducks during the general waterfowl seasons. The department is proposing dates and bag

Pratt – The Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks (KDWP) reminds all nonresident hunters that 2009 nonresident deer permit applications are due by midnight, June 1. All applications must be made online through the KDWP

The Department of Fish and Game (DFG) has begun enforcing new recreational salmon fishing regulations for the Central Valley Basin. Catch and release fishing that intentionally targets salmon is now illegal in any river or