Hunting
Alaska: Wolf, bear hunts increasing moose, caribou
Anchorage, Alaska (AP) – An Alaska wildlife management program in which wolves are shot from low-flying airplanes and black bears are baited and snared is helping to increase the numbers of moose and caribou, state
N.D. park gets more than 11,000 comments on elk plan
Medora, N.D. (AP) – The superintendent of Theodore Roosevelt National Park says park officials have received more than 11,000 comments on a proposal to thin the park’s elk herd by using teams of shooters, including
S.D. TIPs program yields 170 arrests in past year
Sioux Falls, S.D. (AP) – Authorities made 170 arrests for hunting and fishing violations in the past year because of information provided through a tip line. The Turn In Poachers program administered by the Game,
Doctoral student studies northwestern Minn. bears
Grand Forks, N.D. (AP) – Male black bears in northwestern Minnesota have the largest home ranges ever recorded for the species in North America. That’s the finding three years into a four-year study of black
Canada goose hunting season extended in Louisiana
Baton Rouge, La. (AP) -The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission has extended this year’s Canada goose hunting season from 16 to 44 days. The change approved last month allows Louisiana hunters to take a Canada
5 pronghorn illegally shot in NE Wyoming
Newcastle, Wyo. (AP) – The Wyoming Game and Fish Department is investigating the illegal shooting of five pronghorn antelope in the northeast part of the state. The agency says the antelope were killed along U.S.
World’s vultures in trouble, but in Pa. they’re doing fine
Pittsburgh – Pennsylvania’s vulture populations are thriving, according to researchers at the National Aviary in Pittsburgh.
Deer harvest could be smaller
Starting herd will be smaller; Deer kill topped a quarter million last year Athens, Ohio – Coming off a year where a record 252,017 deer were killed, there’s no place to go but up for
