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Anchorage, Alaska (AP) – Yukon River smokehouses should be filled this summer with oil-rich strips of king salmon – long used by Alaska Natives as a high-energy food to get through the long Alaska winters.

Charleston, W.Va. (AP) – West Virginia’s deer hunters will get to pursue their favorite quarry a little earlier this fall. Regulators have scheduled two six-day antlerless-deer hunting seasons for September, roughly a month before the

Madison, Wis. (AP) – Researchers in Madison are hoping to rid a northern Wisconsin lake of an invasive fish species by manually raising the water’s temperature. Scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison plan to stir

Concord, N.H. (AP) – The New Hampshire Fish and Game department has finalized its calendar for bird hunting season. The fall season starts and ends with crows, which may be hunted between Aug. 15 and

Lincoln, Neb. (AP) – Nebraska hunters wanting a shot at bringing down a bighorn sheep have until Aug. 7 to apply for the 2009 bighorn sheep hunting lottery. The lottery is open only to state

Anchorage, Alaska (AP) – The Alaska Office of Special Prosecutions says a New Mexico man has been penalized nearly $20,000 and put on five years’ probation for multiple hunting violations. The Anchorage Daily News says

Billings, Mont. (AP) – An agreement proposed between Montana, Idaho and Wyoming calls for the three states to coordinate any future public hunts for grizzly bears, although no hunts are immediately planned. An estimated 600

Lincoln, Neb. (AP) – The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission says turkey-hunting permits will be available to buy starting Aug. 10. Turkey season runs from Sept. 15 through Dec. 31, and hunters may use either

Tucson, Ariz. (AP) – The Arizona Game and Fish Department has ended a moratorium on shooting lions in the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge north of Yuma. The agency says the mountain lion population in Arizona