National Hunting

Phoenix – Arizona fishing license sales are up around 10 percent from last year despite the economic downtown – or possibly because of it. “Most people are probably staying closer to home this year, and

Watsonville, Calif. (AP) – Pinto Lake anglers are being warned not to eat their catch because fish in the 80-acre Watsonville lake are contaminated with unsafe levels of DDT, a pesticide banned more than three

Pensacola, Fla. (AP) – Big boats, deep water and red snapper. Those three things have been a magic combination for generations of Gulf Coast charter fishermen, who made their living putting tourists on fish out

Brookings, S.D. (AP) – Two South Dakota State University wildlife and fisheries sciences faculty members have gotten a five-year, $647,000 Army Corps of Engineers grant to study the endangered pallid sturgeon. Brian Graeb and Steven

Kent, Conn. (AP) – Four people have been charged with poaching in northwestern Connecticut. Department of Environmental Protection Environmental Conservation Police arrested the four over the weekend on charges related to alleged illegal wild turkey

Traverse City, Mich. (AP) – Federal officials have decided against placing the coaster brook trout on the endangered species list, even though the fish has become increasingly rare after long flourishing in the upper Great

Kennewick, Wash. (AP) – Wildlife officials say a wildfire on the Hanford Reach National Monument in southeast Washington led to a small decline in the size of its elk herd. Still, Mike Livingston, district wildlife

Missoula, Mont. (AP) – The Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership in Missoula is mapping favorite hunting spots in Montana in hopes of avoiding conflicts between hunters and oil and gas developers. The map is based on