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Oklahoma to launch bear hunt this week
Oklahoma City (AP) – Oklahoma is to open a hunt for bear on Thursday in four counties in the southeastern part of the state. The hunt will be conducted in Latimer, Le Flore, McCurtain and
Lack of food won’t hurt WVa squirrel hunt
Charleston, W.Va. (AP) – Hunters worried that a lack of squirrel food will make the critters scarce during this year’s hunting season can relax. Paul Johansen of the state Division of Natural Resources says squirrels
SD pheasant plan available for review
Pierre, S.D. (AP) – The South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks Department says people can review the agency’s five-year draft management plan for pheasants. The 84-page report covers how the department proposes to manage the
Pa man pleads to charges related to hunting fatal
Weston, W.Va. (AP) – A Pennsylvania man accused of fatally shooting a turkey hunter has pleaded guilty to misdemeanor negligent shooting and no contest to felony wanton endangerment. Robert Tobias of Millersburg, Pa., also pleaded
Crossbows keep folks hunting deer longer
Harrisburg – There wasn’t a lot of common ground to be had among the hunters who most vehemently argued against the legalization of crossbows for the statewide archery season and the hunters who wanted the
House panel hearing is set on doe permit sales
Harrisburg – When the Pennsylvania Game Commission started using an automated point-of-sale system to sell licenses this year, it finally got out of the carbon paper business.
Car hits, kills cougar on south side of Bemidji
Bemidji, Minn. – State wildlife officials haven’t determined if an animal hit and killed by a vehicle in Bemidji last Friday was wild or not, but one thing is clear: It was a mountain lion.
Elk herd ‘depopulation’ begins near Rochester
Rochester, Minn. – Depopulation of the state’s largest farmed elk herd began last week, nine months after the discovery of chronic wasting disease in a slaughtered cow elk from what formerly was Elk Country U.S.A.
