Hunting
TWRC Search Committee Announces Schedule to Fill Executive Director’s Position
The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Commission has announced its schedule to fill the Executive Director’s position of the TWRA. TWRA Executive Director Gary Myers announced his retirement in October, effective March 1, 2009. Mitchell S. Parks,
Shad Season Opens January 1
Social Circle, Ga. – Commercial shad season runs from 6 a.m. on Thursday, Jan. 1, 2009 through midnight on Tuesday, March 31, according to the Georgia Department of Natural Resources’ Wildlife Resources Division. Regulations for
Muscatine hunter pleads guilty to 34 violations
Wapello, Iowa (AP) — A Muscatine man has pleaded guilty to 34 violations for illegally hunting ducks in Louisa County last fall. Nineteen-year-old Tyler Wilson had been facing 75 charges in the illegal waterfowl hunting
2008-09 Deer Hunting Seasons Conclude with Young Sportsman Hunt, Jan. 17-18
Nashville – Tennessee’s 2008-09 deer hunting seasons will conclude with the Young Sportsman Deer Hunt to be held the weekend of Jan. 17-18. Only youth (ages 6-16) may participate in the Young Sportsman Hunt, regardless
Battle looming on Sunday hunting in PA
Harrisburg — The appointment of a Sunday-hunting opponent as chairman of the Senate’s Game and Fisheries Committee has thrown a monkey wrench into efforts to eliminate the state’s last remaining Blue Law. Senator-elect Richard Alloway,
Feds officially move to ‘relist’ wolves
Washington — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service made official the “relisting” of gray wolves in the Midwest, where they’d been removed from the Endangered Species List just a year and a half ago. At
Arizona to submit desert conservation plan
Tucson, Ariz. (AP) – A plan to conserve habitat for many rare or endangered species in southern Arizona is about submitted to a federal agency for review. The fifth draft of the plan is aimed
Minn. lawmakers mulls lead bullet ban
Moorehead, Minn. (AP) _ Beth Siverhus has hunted deer since 1976, and for the first time next year she plans to use copper-coated bullets instead of lead. That’s because the Warroad woman also spends time
Conservation ‘stimulus’ plan offered
Washington – As long as the federal government is considering a job-creation “stimulus package” that’s nearing $1 trillion (the actual latest rumored amount was about $750 billion), why not give conservation a boost via the
