A green-winged teal by 15-year old Madison Grimm will grace the 2022-2023 Junior Duck Stamp. (Madison Grimm/USFWS)A young artist from South Dakota has taken top honors at the National Junior Duck Stamp Art Contest. A green-winged teal by 15-year old Madison Grimm will grace the 2022-2023 Junior Duck Stamp, which raises funds to educate and engage our nation’s youth in wildlife…
Man fined $5,500 and will pay $64,465 in restitution to the Ohio DNR.
Ordered to pay over $8 million in fines and restitution.
There reportedly were 206 wolves in 33 packs in Washington. Nineteen of these were successful breeding pairs. This is up from 178 wolves in 29 packs and 16 breeding pairs in the 2020 count.
Man could have sentenced Smith to a year in prison and imposed a $5,000 fine, according to the plea agreement.
Ohio to get a portion of the money for wildlife restoration.
U.S. District judge said U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service had failed to show wolf populations could be sustained in Midwest and portions of West without protection under Endangered Species Act.
If the draft habitat conservation plan is approved and the incidental take permit is issued, the counties would be authorized to take up to a total of three northern long-eared bats, three little brown bats, and three tricolored bats over the 25-year project duration.
The request, if granted, would open the door to public hunting of grizzlies in Montana for the first time in three decades.
Despite an extinction press release from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, some good conservation news has emerged from Washington D.C.
He won with his painting of a pair of redheads floating in the water.
ST. LOUIS — Artists will no longer have to incorporate hunting imagery to win a coveted spot for their work on the federal duck stamp, a reversal of a Trump-era requirement. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said it’s eliminating the “celebrating our waterfowl hunting heritage” theme from its annual Federal Duck Stamp contest, a change that goes into effect…
Gets 15 months after removing the head of a black bear on the Red Lake Indian Reservation.
A record 22 captive-born Mexican gray wolf pups have been placed into dens in the wild in the southwestern U.S. to be raised by surrogate packs.
There hasn’t been a documented nest in Ohio in at least 80 years.
On April 23, Minnesota DNR received an anonymous tip about two dead bald eagles in a rural area near the Blackduck River in northwestern Minnesota.
34 silver carp captured in recent multi-agency operation.
And the fish, which was caught by a USFWS crew and could be more than 100 years old, is still out there as it was released back into the river.
Backers said changes to Idaho law could help cut the wolf population from about 1,500 to 150, alleviating wolf attacks on cattle, sheep and wildlife.
Underwater sound and electricity are used to drive the fish into nets.
Highlights include new open-water duck zone.
Program to kill dozens of mountain lions and black bears was an experiment to determine if the predators were partly responsible for declining mule deer populations.
The bears now occupy about 6% of their historical range in the contiguous U.S., up from 2% in 1975.
The number of American bald eagles has quadrupled since 2009, with more than 300,000 of them now residing in lower 48.
The endangered California condor could return to the Pacific Northwest for the first time in 100 years.
Once on the verge of extinction, the rarest subspecies of the gray wolf in North America has seen its population nearly double over the last five years.
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