MADISON –Wisconsin’s regular nine-day gun deer season opens Saturday, Nov. 22 this year and runs through Sunday, Nov. 30. The traditional season always opens the Saturday prior to the Thanksgiving holiday.
Even after a pretty tough winter in parts of the state, and a harvest of more than 520,000 deer in the 2007-08 seasons, the deer [...]
November 13, 2008 | Posted in
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Owings Mills, MD — The Maryland Department of Natural Resources invites people to discuss a proposed expansion of deer management at Soldiers Delight Natural Environment Area (N.E.A.) on Wed., Oct. 15 at 7 p.m. in the auditorium of New Town High School, 4931 New Town Boulevard in Owings Mills.
Soldiers Delight Natural Environment Area, located near [...]
October 6, 2008 | Posted in
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MADISON — Bow hunters will get the first opportunity to harvest Wisconsin’s premier big game animal this year when the archery season for deer starts on Sept. 13. With a projection of between 1.5 and 1.7 million deer in the state, odds are good that the bow hunters will harvest game.
“In all areas of the [...]
September 4, 2008 | Posted in
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Panel reviewing options for improvements in deer management, reduction in deer vehicle accidents
SPRINGFIELD, ILL. – The Illinois Department of Natural Resources and the state’s Joint Deer Population Control Task Force will conduct a series of public meetings to discuss and seek public comment on proposals for changes and improvements in deer management in the state.
The [...]
August 29, 2008 | Posted in
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CONCORD, N.H. — Get psyched for the upcoming hunting seasons at a series of free evening talks by area hunting experts and staff of the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department in September. The sessions begin at 7 p.m. This year they will be offered in various locations. No pre-registration is required.
“This is a great [...]
August 26, 2008 | Posted in
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EHD, aka Blue Tongue, Often Fatal to Deer, Does Not Infect Humans
The Division of Fish & Wildlife is reassuring Delaware residents and hunters that an insect-borne disease that has been killing white-tailed deer throughout North America does not affect humans and has little long-range ramifications for the health of the state’s deer herd.
Epizootic hemorrhagic disease [...]
August 26, 2008 | Posted in
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New Jersey’s deer herd is a major component of the landscape throughout all but the most urbanized areas of the state. Deer affect our forests, farms, gardens, backyards and roadways. From a population reduced to a handful of deer in the early 1900s they rebounded during the 20th century to a thriving herd today.
A healthy [...]
June 27, 2008 | Posted in
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CONCORD, N.H. — New Hampshire’s deer hunting seasons have been established for this fall, and the outlook is generally good in spite of the challenging winter of 2007-2008. The impact of the cold, snowy winter on parts of the deer herd in New Hampshire suggests that 2008 may not be a record-setting season like last [...]
June 27, 2008 | Posted in
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Waterbury, VT – Vermont’s antlerless deer hunting lottery applications for the muzzleloader season are now available on the Fish & Wildlife Department’s website and at license agents statewide. The permits are only for “antlerless deer,” which is defined as deer without antlers or with antlers less than three inches long.
Permit numbers and wildlife management units [...]
June 23, 2008 | Posted in
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The Department of Natural Resources recently recommended three changes to deer regulations relating to buck hunting in the Upper Peninsula, antlerless hunting and to allow the harvest of albino or all-white deer. These regulation changes will be considered at Thursday’s meeting of the Natural Resources Commission in Lansing at the Lansing Center, located at 333 [...]
June 4, 2008 | Posted in
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