Fishing

Pierre, S.D. (AP) – The state’s wildlife managers want to reopen a limited antelope hunting season in Custer State Park after a 25-year hiatus. It proposes a nine-day season in October that would allow three

Traverse City, Mich. (AP) – More than 4,000 gray wolves in the upper Great Lakes region are going back on the federal endangered species list – at least temporarily. A coalition of activist groups said

Billings, Mont. (AP) – Federal officials are again delaying whether to list sage grouse in 11 Western states as threatened or endangered _ leaving in limbo until at least 2010 a spate of industries that

Helena, Mont. (AP) – Montana wildlife officials tested about 2,000 deer, elk and moose collected during the 2008-2009 hunting season and did not detect chronic wasting disease in any of the animals tested. The fatal

Helena, Mont. (AP) – Montana’s Fish, Wildlife & Parks Commission will make final decisions on 2009 wolf quotas at a meeting July 8 at FWP headquarters in Helena. Commissioners will also make final decisions on

Santa Fe, N.M. (AP) – New Mexico veterans with service-connected disabilities will be able to get discounted hunting and fishing licenses starting next Wednesday. The Department of Game and Fish says the annual combination fishing

San Francisco (AP) – State wildlife officials have rejected a petition seeking protections for the mountain-dwelling American pika under the California Endangered Species Act. The California Fish and Game Commission’s decision Wednesday comes after a

Pierre, S.D. (AP) – The South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks Commission plans a public hearing on plans for the next mountain lion hunting season and several others when it meets Wednesday in Pierre. GF&P

Coeur D’Alene, Idaho (AP) – A state judge has imposed a lifetime hunting ban on a northern Idaho man convicted for illegally slaughtering five deer. Timothy Herbert, 32, of Athol, was also ordered to pay