North Dakota deer hunting licenses to drop 40 percent
North Dakota’s Game and Fish Department is making just 65,300 deer licenses available for the 2012 season, a drop of more than 40 percent from last year
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North Dakota’s Deer Season Set, Online Apps Available May 9
North Dakota’s 2012 deer season is set, with 65,300 licenses available to hunters this fall, 44,650 fewer than last year and the lowest since 1988.
Computer glitch hampers Alaska deer hunt reporting
A computer glitch has resulted in incomplete totals from data submitted online by Sitka blacktail deer hunters around Alaska, according to state officials
Long Island nontypical new bow record
Mike Giarraputo is the first to tell anyone that his encounter and subsequent harvest of a buck that set a new state record might just be “one of the more uneventful big buck stories out there.”
Six buck-only units OK’d by Natural Resource Board for ’12
The 2012 deer season will include an October four-day antlerless-only deer hunt in the CWD zone
2012-13 Deer Seasons Set for Arkansas
The upcoming deer hunting seasons for the state have been set by the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission. The seasons were approved at today’s meeting of the Commission.
Are we the problem
It seems we cannot get away from playing the blame game, suggesting they, not us, are the problem. We have seen the blame game in politics for longer than we care to remember. Tell everyone who will listen about all of the wrong things the other guys and gals have been doing. But leave us out of the guilty category….
Learn More About Mississippi's Deer Management at Copiah County WMA
MDWFP, in partnership with the Southwest Mississippi Quality Deer Management Association branch, is hosting a Deer Management Field Day on May 19th at Copiah County WMA near Hazlehurst.
Vermont's May Deer Hearings Set for St Albans and Springfield
The Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department will hold two public hearings on white-tailed deer management in May to give Vermonters the opportunity to review 2011 hunting season results and discuss the details of the 2012 Antlerless Permitting and Youth Season Recommendations.
Only minor changes in deer hunting rules for Ohio's 2012-2013
The Ohio Wildlife Council approved hunting and trapping regulations for the 2012-13 hunting seasons during its April 4 meeting, according to the DNR Division of Wildlife
Wisconsin DNR considers CWD discovery’s fallout
Whether the discovery of CWD in Washburn County results in higher antlerless quotas this fall remains to be seen, but DNR officials on April 4 said they were well aware that deer units in that area already are close to goals.
A decade worth of disease-free deer in Ohio
Latest round of CWD testing in Ohio proves negative
Advisory teams to aid in Michigan deer management
Regional advisory teams are meeting to discuss deer management in southern Michigan, the northern Lower Peninsula, and the Upper Peninsula
Pennsylvania Game commissioners want to get doe info sooner
Pennsylvania game commissioners gave more than they got this time.
Predator hunters’ top concern: Kroll report
The initial report from three contracted “deer trustees” listed five main issues from hunters and landowners, with “too many predators” being the No. 1 problem with the state’s deer program.
NRB eases toward four-day October antlerless gun season in CWD zone
The Natural Resources Board (NRB) approved a DNR request to begin the process to re-establish a four-day, antlerless-only gun deer season in the CWD zone.
BREAKING NEWS: DEC deer plan includes youth hunt
DEC’s five-year deer management plan has kept intact a proposed three-day youth deer hunt over the Columbus Day weekend, set for this fall pending final regulatory approval.
Spring has me thinking of deer – and the food plots they love
This unseasonably warm weather has me thinking one thing: deer. But, how do you get the deer? How do you keep the deer?
Deer Management Report by the Deer Doctors
Deer report from Drs. James Kroll, David Guynn and Gary Alt.
Michigan man charged with poaching multiple bucks
An eastern Michigan man is facing poaching charges in two counties after he allegedly killed numerous bucks during the course of the 2011 deer season.
PGC 336,200 deer harvest is in dispute
The Pennsylvania Game Commission recently reported that hunters harvested an estimated 336,200 deer in the state’s 2011-12 seasons, and that announcement ignited an uproar among many sportsmen.
PGC annual report: Lawmakers talk deer
White-tailed deer, like always, dominated the discussion when Game Commission Executive Director Carl Roe presented the agency’s annual report to the House Game and Fisheries Committee here March 7.
Deer trapping in Pennsylvania is winding down. How & why we catch deer
OKAY, SO WE DO get to do a little Animal Planet stuff after all. We catch deer. Every year from February through April, we gear up and head out to catch our quarry.
Texas Prepares for CWD Possibility in Far West Texas
The New Mexico Department of Game and Fish (NMDGF) has informed Texas officials that three mule deer harvested a few miles from the Texas border last hunting season have tested positive for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD).
Vermilion bowhunter scores on 18-point buck
Berlin Heights, Ohio – Daniel McGlothlin is fairly new to the sport of deer hunting. He’s been fairly lucky at it and his second buck proved to be the charm. On Nov. 11, McGlothlin, of Vermilion, killed an 18-point buck that would score in the 170s non-typical. It has a 20-inch inside spread. The deer weighed about 275 pounds. “It…
How many deer permits will be available in Utah?
The time to decide how many buck deer permits will be available for hunts in Utah this fall is almost here.
