DNR: Fall hunting, trapping season forecasts highlight hunter opportunities, notable changes to limits, zones
The agency releases the 2020 fall forecast series.
Trapping
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Federal agencies move to increase Alaska hunting, trapping
The new rules are designed to allow hunters to kill black and brown bears over bait, black bears including cubs and females with cubs with artificial light at den sites, and wolves and coyotes including pups during the denning season. Hunters can also kill caribou from traveling motorboats and swimming caribou.
Division of Wildlife pulls out of coyote proposal
Plan was to add coyote to the trapping season.
New Mexico eyes trapping restrictions
Separately, the Game Commission is considering a decrease in the permitted number of cougars that can be killed for sport across much of the state, along with an outright ban on trapping cougars for sport.
Missouri seeing progress in battle against feral hogs
A trapper in Wayne and Bollinger counties reported significant declines in damage from the invasive animals since he adopted trapping technique.
Change to start of firearms deer season approved
Season will kick off the Saturday following Thanksgiving instead of the Monday after.
Trapping remains a part of the outdoors landscape – for now
That could all change if some New York City politicians have their way.
Bobcat harvest up 8 percent to 343 in Illinois
The number of permits was doubled from 2017-18, and last year there were 318 bobcats harvested.
Now might be a good time to reconsider some of Wisconsin’s hunting, fishing, trapping rule changes
Conservation Congress, sportsmen could start with rule change ideas that would cost nothing to implement.
Fun and frustration on the trapline
As a trapper, you never know what might lie around the bend.
With fur prices down, West Virginia officials expect few state trappers
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Prices are down for furs, and West Virginia authorities are not expecting many trappers this year. Rich Rogers is the furbearer project leader for the state Division of Natural Resources. He told the Charleston Gazette-Mail likely only the most die-hard trappers will put in the time and effort to run trap lines and they won’t get much…
The results are in, and bobcat hunters, trappers can check permit application status online
More than 5,000 hunters/trappers applied for bobcat permits, and 1,000 permits will be issued.
DNR confiscated hunting, fishing equipment set for auction Saturday
List of more than 300 bows and firearms.
Alaska nixes lynx trapping on Kenai Peninsula
(U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)KENAI, Alaska — Lynx trapping will not open up on the Kenai Peninsula this year as populations of the wildcat and its prey move through a low cycle. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced last week that the trapping season will stay closed for the peninsula and the region east of the Turnagain and…
Year-round fishing for bass in Lake Erie fishing district?
Removing crappie bag and slot limits on specific lakes also proposed, also to provide more opportunities for anglers.
Hunting, trapping proposals raising a ruckus in Indiana
INDIANAPOLIS — An Indiana DNR official has recommended making adjustments to two proposals regarding bobcats, raccoons, opossums and coyotes that have been met with fierce opposition. One proposal would create a bobcat hunting season. Hunters would be limited to catching one bobcat and there would also be an overall statewide quota. The season would likely run from Nov. 8 to…
Pennsylvania OKs 2018-19 hunting, trapping regs
Commissioners boost antlerless deer licenses to 838,000 for 2018-19.
Bring more kids into the fold by involving them in the end result of hunting, fishing, trapping
Wisconsin’s sturgeon spearing season framework and local big game/fishing dinners just two ways to show kids what’s happening outdoors and how they can participate.
DNR extends beaver, otter trapping by two weeks in U.P., northern L.P.
Heavy snowfall over past several weeks, along with frozen wetlands and now rising waterways, has hindered trappers.
Emergency order closes wolf season along Alaska’s Stampede Trail
“Preliminary data indicate up to eight wolves have been killed this year in the area near the Stampede Trail” when the average has been about four wolves per year for the last five years.
With coyote issues on the rise, hired trapper cleaning up North Carolina town
NAGS HEAD, N.C. — A trapper hired by an Outer Banks town has captured and killed 17 coyotes after the town received complaints that the animals were killing pets and running along beaches. Nags Head police Chief Kevin Brinkley tells The Virginian-Pilot of Nags Head that the town hired trapper Larry Sink after getting 68 complaints over two years. During…
Illinois hunters, trappers harvest 300-plus bobcats during 2017-18 season
Permit holders salvaged another 40 roadkill bobcats during the season.
As Indiana bobcat population continues to grow, DNR proposes hunting, trapping season
But wildlife and environmental groups say the state does not have specific data showing the bobcat population could support opening such a season and the state director of U.S. Humane Society doesn’t see a reason for a hunting and trapping season, saying the species ‘is not causing a problem.’
Heading to border waters for extended walleye fishing? Don’t forget to buy a new license
2017 fish, game, trapping licenses set to expire; 2018 licenses will be costlier.
Connecticut fur trappers work with biologists to capture bobcats
Of particular interest to the biologists on the project is how the animals are adjusting and integrating into suburban and urban environments.
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