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The Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has released a new version of its Internet mapping application, MERLIN Online. MERLIN (Maryland’s Environmental Resources and Land Information Network) has been in use at DNR since 1999

The West Virginia Division of Natural Resources (DNR) will hold 12 public meetings across the state in March to provide hunters, trappers, anglers, landowners and other interested parties an opportunity to review and comment on

Cape Fear Wildlife Expo The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission is once again participating in the Cape Fear Wildlife Expo, at the Convention Center in downtown Wilmington March 18-20. The Commission will have several exhibits at

Striped Bass Season on the Roanoke River The Roanoke River Management Area is now open to striped bass harvest from March 1 until April 30. The daily creel limit is two fish per person with

The South Dakota Game Fish and Parks Commission will consider a proposal next month that would require hunters to shoot non-toxic shot on all public road rights-of-way open to hunting for small game. The issue

A free workshop covering the basics of hunting wild turkeys is being offered by the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department on Saturday, April 9, 2011, from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at the Owl

Rule changes regarding the use of live gizzard shad, threadfin shad and alewives as bait, and the size of cast nets used in collecting such bait, take effect March 22. The rules changes answer a

A number of hunter education courses are scheduled across the state over the next few weeks for prospective turkey hunters to become certified in time for the spring season. Iowa hunters born after Jan. 1,

Ice conditions are deteriorating over much of Iowa, leaving only the far north counties where ice fishing is still happening. Even in these northern counties where the ice thickness had been over two feet a