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Bismarck, N.D. (AP) – North Dakota hunters are taking to the fields with forecasts of fewer pheasants this season, after a long, hard winter. But that’s not stopping all of them. Dennis Taylor of Buford,

Menominee, Mich. (AP) – The Upper Peninsula is getting the first crack at Michigan’s pheasants. The state’s annual hunting season for pheasants opens Saturday in Menominee County and portions of Delta, Dickinson, Iron and Marquette

Waterloo, Iowa (AP) – The number of pheasants may be down across Iowa, but that isn’t dampening the spirits of the state’s hunters. Pheasant season begins on Oct. 31 and runs through Jan. 10. A

Sioux Falls, S.D. (AP) – South Dakota hunters get an early shot at pheasants this weekend. A hunting season for state residents only is Saturday through Monday. Hunting is allowed only on public land from

Lincoln, Neb. (AP) – The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission will stock lakes and ponds across Nebraska with full-sized rainbow trout this month. The trout will be 9- to 10-inches. The stocking began Oct. 2

South Charleston, W.Va. (AP) – The West Virginia Division of Natural Resources is predicting good hunting for wild turkey this fall. The agency says poor and spotty food conditions in West Virginia’s woods will cause

Santa Rosa, N.M. (AP) – The New Mexico Game and Fish Department has issued an emergency order relaxing fishing rules at Blue Hole Park Pond in an effort to remove as many fish from the

Ketchum, Idaho (AP) – Idaho Department of Fish and Game officials said a female wolf with the Phantom Hill pack was killed by a hunter, marking the 29th wolf kill since Idaho’s hunting season opened

Baton Rouge, La. (AP) – Two Louisiana hunting guides have pleaded guilty to charges they helped a hunter kill an alligator in an area where they weren’t authorized to hunt. Travis Dardenne and Jeffery Brown,