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State animal selection winding down
Columbus – Ohio adopted the Cardinal as its state bird in 1933. The white-tailed deer became the state animal in 1988. The list of state symbols goes on, including a state tree, state flower, and
DNAP_plans 32 permitted deer hunts
Columbus – While filling out your applications for Ohio’s special deer hunts – known as controlled hunts in the Ohio Division of Wildlife parlance – don’t overlook additional opportunities being offered at 26 state nature
Festival to honor life of Tony Dean
Pierre, S.D. (AP) _ An Aug. 8 festival is planned at Spring Creek Marina north of Pierre to honor the life of South Dakota conservation leader and outdoorsman Tony Dean, who died last fall. Dean
Budget battle leaves status of nature preserves in limbo
Columbus – As Gov. Ted Strickland and the Ohio General Assembly battle over budget differences, the fate of the state’s 134 designated nature preserves grows cloudy. Under the governor’s revised two-year budget proposal, the Ohio
State to hunt pythons in South Florida
Tallahassee, Fla. (AP) — Florida’s governor is asking wildlife officials to begin trapping pythons, the same way the state handles nuisance alligators. The program will be carried out by qualified herpetologists who volunteer. The Burmese
Proposal to cut Delaware River’s shad limit in half
Contributing Writer Easton, Pa. – In response to decreasing American shad populations, Pennsylvania and neighboring New Jersey and New York have proposed regulations changes for 2010 that will reduce the number of shad that Delaware
If it was a bullhead, it was a new state record
Capital Correspondent Harrisburg – Was it or wasn’t it?
Second wolf pack confirmed in Washington
Spokane, Wash. (AP) – State biologists have confirmed a second wolf pack in Washington state, this time in a remote area of Pend Oreille County. The Spokesman-Review reports biologists were able to confirm the presence
Fishing area at Winfield Locks and Dam to reopen
Huntington, W.Va. (AP) – A fishing access area at the Winfield Locks and Dam that’s been closed since October for improvements is reopening. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says the Route 35 fishing access
