Arizona turns to muskies to bulk up bass fishery
Hope is tiger muskies will eat small bass, allowing anglers to have larger bass to catch in upcoming years.
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Arizona refuge makes for uncommon family hunting experience
Three generations of Andersons have a particular attachment to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge and hunting bighorns on craggy mountainsides under the desert sun. (Sid Sloan/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)Autumn is for remembering. The last light of summer yields to the first beautiful days of fall. This time of year is a communion between…
Arizona Game and Fish agrees to retain one trail-cam ban, lift another
PAYSON, Ariz. — In a 5-0 vote, the Arizona Game and Fish Commission agreed to retain the provision that prohibits use of live-action trail cameras for the purpose of taking or aiding in the take of wildlife, but removed the provision that prohibits the use of other trail cameras within one-fourth mile of a developed water source. The provisions were…
In Arizona, officials work to save native Apache trout from extinction
The tribal, state and federal coalition has had success in downgrading Apache trout from endangered to threatened, a rare victory in the conservation world. But the progress can be fragile.
Arizona turkey hunters can give virus research a leg up
PHOENIX — Arizona wildlife officials are asking spring turkey hunters to consider donating a part of their kill for research. The Arizona Game and Fish Department said that it has been monitoring the state’s wild turkey population for a possible virus. With turkey-hunting season starting this week, officials are asking hunters, including youth hunters, to give one of the bird’s…
Arizona man found guilty of deer poaching in Iowa
Nicholas Slater of Glendale, Ariz., was found guilty following a trial on Feb. 12, 2018 for charges related to poaching a whitetail deer. The poaching incident occurred at Lake Manawa State Park in Council Bluffs on Nov. 19, 2016. Slater was found guilty on seven charges, including hunting on a game refuge, not having a valid nonresident hunting license and…
Activists seek ban on sport hunting of Arizona big cats
Hunters and other opponents to the initiative have pointed out that the state’s mountain lion population is regulated by the Arizona Game and Fish Department and it’s not endangered.
State wildlife officials review feds’ plan for Mexican wolf recovery
Since conservation of the Mexican gray wolf began in the 1980s, the Arizona agency has spent more than $7 million on recovery efforts.
Arizona stepping up stocking with additional 250,000 fish
Arizona Fish and Game Department estimates it added 20,000 fish before Memorial Day and will continue the action in June.
Officials confirm deaths of 2 endangered wolf pups in New Mexico
Still, survey showed that 50 wild-born pups survived in 2016 compared with half that the previous year.
In Arizona, biologists see success in relocation of endangered fish
For more than a decade, biologists from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have moved hundreds of humpback chub each fall about five miles upriver, where there are fewer predators and more food for the fish.
In Arizona, good news on CWD front
Arizona agency: Testing finds no cases of wildlife disease
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