Four more farmed white-tailed deer test positive for CWD
Staff and News Reports
May 18, 2017
Part of disease tracing effort reaching back to 2016 Crow Wing County case.
U.S. Department of Agriculture
USDA action exposes desperate need to increase CRP acreage cap
Rob Drieslein
May 4, 2017
A memo from the Trump USDA on Wednesday tells American landowners: No more room in federal Conservation Reserve Program.
Stepped-up efforts helping Missouri eradicate feral hogs
Associated Press
April 25, 2017
Agencies have combined to trap and kill 2,332 feral hogs in the first three months of this year, almost half the total of 5,358 feral hogs captured in all of 2016.
Rural Oregonians defend trapper program, oppose cuts
Associated Press
April 17, 2017
Budget cut championed by environmental and conservation groups as a long-awaited rebuke of a program they contend needlessly kills thousands of animals each year. But rural Oregonians and ranchers see it as the tone-deaf response
Coyote-killing devices still allowed in Wyoming
Associated Press
April 17, 2017
A national debate about the predator-killing M-44 device is unfolding in the wake of a hospitalized teenager and three dogs and a wolf that have been killed recently in Wyoming, Idaho and Oregon.
Aerial hunt of feral hogs along Colorado River costs $25,000
Associated Press
April 14, 2017
The USDA worked with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to eradicate nearly 70 feral swine from Arizona refuge.
Cyanide predator traps temporarily banned in Idaho
Associated Press
April 12, 2017
Idaho boy was injured last month when he checked one out with his dog on federally-owned land about 500 yards from his house on the outskirts of the small city of Pocatello. His Labrador retriever
In North Dakota, touting habitat projects designed for wildlife
North Dakota Game and Fish Department Reports
April 10, 2017
Over a 10-year period, approximately $19 million in federal funds from the Farm Service Agency will be used to provide annual rental, incentive and cost-share payments for filter strips, riparian buffers, or pollinator and honeybee
Report: Use combination of lethal, non-lethal methods to control problem wolves
Associated Press
April 10, 2017
The report also looks at the impacts of using only non-lethal methods for dealing with problem wolves, and of the federal agency withdrawing from wolf damage management in Minnesota.
