LITTLE ROCK – The Commission also discussed dove season, the unofficial opening of Arkansas’s fall hunting season. Early-season migratory game-bird season selections must be reported to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service by Aug. 1. Approval for the seasons will take place during the Commission’s July meeting. Changes from last season are minor. Mourning Dove [...]
June 25, 2010 | Posted in
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Hunters can apply for nearly 100 archery, muzzleloader and modern firearms hunts, including events for youths and hunters with disabilities. JEFFERSON CITY–Deer hunters have until August 15 to apply for almost 100 managed hunts on public land from mid-September through January. The Missouri Department of Conservation holds a drawing to determine who gets to participate [...]
June 25, 2010 | Posted in
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Six special-opportunity dove fields will be open to the public this season through the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’s special-opportunity Dove Club Program. Beginning at 10 a.m. (EDT) July 1, sportsmen can apply for Dove Club permits online at www.fl.wildlifelicense.com or by submitting a completed Special-Opportunity Dove Club Permit Worksheet to any county tax [...]
June 23, 2010 | Posted in
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(JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.) – Today the Missouri Departments of Agriculture and Conservation announced that tests of 50 captive deer sampled in Linn County showed no signs of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD). Tests were conducted by the USDA National Veterinary Services Laboratory in Ames, Iowa. The Department of Conservation continues to test a sampling of free-ranging [...]
March 19, 2010 | Posted in
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Hunters should temper expectations for this spring’s turkey season after back-to-back years of dry conditions negatively impacted nesting success across much of Texas, resulting in fewer gobblers on the ground. The good news is 2007 produced a bumper crop of birds and that carryover of mature toms in South Texas and the Hill Country, combined [...]
March 19, 2010 | Posted in
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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Acting Director Rowan Gould today announced revisions to the list of bird species protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA). Species appearing on this list are governed under migratory bird hunting and permitting regulations concerning most aspects of possession, transportation, sale, purchase, exportation, and importation of protected species. The [...]
March 1, 2010 | Posted in
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Hunters who want to get in the field early for the 2010 spring turkey hunt must apply by Friday, Jan. 8, wherever hunting and fishing licenses are sold. Adult hunters may apply for one of nearly 57,000 permits to hunt a five- or seven-day season in one of 77 permit areas. Youth 17 and younger [...]
January 4, 2010 | Posted in
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Archery bear hunt results in a harvest of 108 HARRISBURG – Pennsylvania Game Commission preliminary bear harvest figures show that 3,036 bears were taken during the recently completed three-day season (Nov. 23-25) and an additional 108 bears were harvested during the two-day archery bear harvest (Nov. 18-19). So far, the total bear harvest of 3,144 [...]
December 7, 2009 | Posted in
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The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) reminds hunters that they may continue to take Burmese pythons and all other reptiles of concern within four South Florida wildlife management areas (WMAs). An FWC executive order, which went into effect Aug. 29, gives all properly licensed and permitted hunters authority to harvest pythons and other [...]
December 7, 2009 | Posted in
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Details are published in the 2009 Fall Deer and Turkey Hunting Regulations and Information booklet. 2009/11/11–Hunters in most parts of Missouri will find plenty of deer when the November Portion of Firearms Deer Season opens Nov. 14, but they need to check out changes in hunting regulations before the season starts. This year’s firearms deer [...]
November 12, 2009 | Posted in
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