September 20, 2010
The local Hunt for the Hungry game donation program continues to serve area residents in need, even as contributions have fallen amid a slumping economy and reduced deer harvest last...
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September 14, 2010
When Tennesseans go to the polls Nov. 2 the state's right to hunt and fish amendment will be on the ballot. For the amendment to become part of the state constitution it will need 50...
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September 14, 2010
Want elk? Don't want them? Either way, the Missouri Department of Conservation wants to hear from you.
The Conservation Commission told the department in July to develop a proposal...
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September 13, 2010
Voters in South Carolina will have an opportunity to directly influence how they are governed as four constitutional amendments will be on the November General Election.
While previous...
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September 13, 2010
According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which issues hunting statistics every five years, in 2006 Women made up about 9 percent (or 1.2 million) of the 12.5 million hunters...
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September 7, 2010
Proposition 109, if approved in November, would preclude legislators from making changes in hunting laws, at least by themselves. Instead, they would have to put them on the ballot...
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September 7, 2010
Just about everyone knows Alabama's football season began Saturday. But the state has another season that also started Sept. 4.
The sound of shotguns thundered across the Alabama countryside...
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September 3, 2010
Lifelong hunter Bill Haycraft of Kentucky sees his treasured outdoors heritage under siege and in need of constitutional protection from animal rights advocates. He`s one of many hunters...
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September 1, 2010
State officials sought Tuesday to revive gray wolf hunts in the Northern Rockies, even as they entered talks with environmentalists whose lawsuit restored the endangered status of the...
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August 24, 2010
Montana's top wildlife official confirmed today that his agency will appeal the recent district court ruling that returned the region's recovered wolves to the federal endangered species...
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August 23, 2010
Would you like to wow your friends with your ability to predict who, in a TV crime or legal drama, will eventually be found to be the killer or all around bad guy or gal? Well, just...
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August 23, 2010
New Jersey's six day December bear hunt should be a money saving bargain.
It will take more than one to drop the state's bear population down a reasonable size, but it's a start. The...
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August 23, 2010
State wildlife officials have launched a new program aimed at attracting more youngsters to hunting.
The new apprentice hunting license was approved by the Nevada legislature last year.Read...
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August 18, 2010
The Idaho Fish and Game Commission vowed to pursue all legal options to restore the state's authority over wolf management after a federal judge's Aug. 5 ruling restored endangered...
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August 16, 2010
More private land in Washington will be open to the public for hunting this fall because of record spring drawing application sales for the slate of special hunt permits in 2010.
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August 12, 2010
Wildlife officials in the Northern Rockies said Wednesday they are considering hunting gray wolves in the name of research to get around a recent court ruling that restored federal...
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August 9, 2010
We've been here before, but that doesn't make the situation any less threatening.
A contingent of conservation groups Wednesday petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency to ban...
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August 6, 2010
A federal judge ruled Thursday that gray wolves in Montana and Idaho must be given the same protections under the federal Endangered Species Act as their cousins in Wyoming.
Wolves...
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August 5, 2010
Only one episode of "American Idol" contestant Kristy Lee Cook's new hunting show, "Goin' Country with Kristy Lee Cook," aired on Versus before the animal rights organization People...
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August 5, 2010
If you were to list the major reasons why people stop or never start hunting, near or at the top of the list you'd have put "having a place to go."
Although the cost of licenses, having...
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July 30, 2010
The New Mexico Department of Game and Fish proposes to increase the number of bears and cougars that can be killed by hunters. The department plans public hearings starting next week...
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July 22, 2010
New Jersey will hold its first bear hunt in five years this December to thin a growing black bear population that wildlife biologists say is increasingly coming into contact with suburban...
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July 16, 2010
More women than men took up hunting last year, according to new net figures from the National Sporting Goods Association.
Data also show women outpaced men among net newcomers to target...
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July 14, 2010
Before the state approved its last bear hunt in 2005, hundreds of farmers, homeowners, animal rights protesters and hunters voiced their opinions in a final, raucous hearing that had...
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July 7, 2010
A bill that would have banned hunters from using lead shot on state wildlife areas has been killed in committee.
The Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee rejected AB 2223 last...
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May 18, 2010
The mentored hunting license bill that has slowly worked its way through the General Assembly the past two sessions received final legislative approval April 30, and a spokesman for...
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May 12, 2010
Supporters and opponents of what would be the state's first approved bear hunt in five years weighed in Tuesday on rules that would authorize a fall hunting season.Read Original at:...
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May 10, 2010
Hunters in Montana would be allowed to hunt nearly three times as many gray wolves this fall compared with last year's inaugural hunt, under a proposal announced Friday by state wildlife...
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May 6, 2010
In a bill hailed as a way to attract more sportsmen and women to the woods, Connecticut hunters would be allowed to use powerful revolvers starting this fall, under legislation that...
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April 15, 2010
Programs such as Virginia's Apprentice Hunter Initiative make it easier for youngsters and novices in 29 states to try out the hunting experience.
The program, approved in the state...
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April 13, 2010
For Robert Millage, killing the first wolf in Idaho's inaugural hunt was a dubious honor. In May 2009, the gray wolf was taken off the list of endangered species for the Northern Rocky...
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April 7, 2010
The Arizona Game and Fish Commission supports House Concurrent Resolution 2008, a measure that would create a state constitutional right to hunt and fish.
HCR 2008 yesterday passed...
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April 5, 2010
Alabama Gov. Bob Riley recently signed legislation into law requiring the state maintain no net loss of hunting lands by "expeditiously" replacing acreage it owns or manages that is...
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March 24, 2010
In an effort to raise more interest in hunting, the Vermont House of Representatives advanced a bill Thursday that would create an apprentice hunting license.
The bill allows someone...
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March 19, 2010
Tennesseans will vote in November on a state constitutional amendment guaranteeing their right to hunt and fish.
This morning on a 90 1 vote, the House approved Senate Joint Resolution...
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March 19, 2010
The bruising left behind by the most recent hunting, fishing and trapping license fee increases are not yet fully healed and sportsmen already see that the 38 percent increase they...
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March 19, 2010
Turkey season opened in South Carolina this week, and like years past James Earl Kennamer, bagged a bird the first day. "Hunting is part of my life," he said, as he waited for a flock...
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March 18, 2010
Acting Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Bob Martin has approved the Fish and Game Council's black bear management policy, setting the stage for New Jersey's first...
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March 16, 2010
State lawmakers approved two measures Monday designed to give more power to hunters to protect their rights.
Without debate, the House gave preliminary approval to a measure that would...
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