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Charleston, W.Va. (AP) – MeadWestvaco says it is joining with the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources to improve trout fishing on 146,000 acres of company-owned forest. The Glen Allen, Va.-based company said it plans

Pierre, S.D. (AP) – A festival to honor of the life of the late South Dakota conservation leader and outdoorsman Tony Dean raised about $6,500. Proceeds from the weekend event will help fund the purchase

Concord, N.H. (AP) – The New Hampshire Fish and Game Department is offering women a chance to learn hunting skills in a special course just for them. The course includes self-paced online study, a written

Bismarck, N.D. (AP) – An early hunting season intended to reduce local Canada goose numbers in North Dakota opens statewide on Saturday. It’s the second straight year the early season opened before Sept. 1. The

Augusta, Ga. (AP) – The Army Corps of Engineers says more than 130 striped bass have died at Thurmond Dam this week because of oxygen problems. Jamie Sykes, fisheries biologist with the Corps, says there

Seattle (AP) – A federal appeals court in Seattle has ruled the Suquamish Indian Tribe has the right to fish Saratoga Passage and Skagit Bay east of Whidbey Island. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals

Garnett, S.C. (AP) – The South Carolina Department of Natural Resources is holding its first alligator hunting seminar of the season. The seminar is Saturday at the Webb Wildlife Center near Garnett in Hampton County.

Great Falls, Mont. (AP) – Montana hunters can buy surplus over-the-counter antelope hunting licenses and surplus licenses for deer, elk and antelope starting Monday. The licenses can be purchased at regional offices of Montana Fish,

Greensburg, Ind. (AP) – A public fishing area in southeastern Indiana has been closed while a small reservoir’s water level is lowered to evaluate the condition of its levees, dam and spillway. The Indiana Department