The 2008-2009 late waterfowl season will soon get underway with the first segment opening on Wednesday, Nov. 26 running until Sunday, Nov. 30.
Changes in regulations include an increase in the wood duck bag limit from two to three, a hybrid daily bag limit for scaup, and a closure of the canvasback season. This season will [...]
November 21, 2008 | Posted in
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LITTLE ROCK – Use the term “waterfowl:” in Arkansas, and the usual connection is with mallards, specifically the male mallard known as the greenhead.
There is another variety popular with many hunters, the white-fronted goose, also known as the specklebelly.
These are found in many areas the state, not in the large numbers of snow geese or [...]
November 6, 2008 | Posted in
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Waterfowl hunters will get another generous duck and goose season now that the Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation Commission has set the dates and limits for the 2008-09 migratory bird hunting season.
“The federal framework sets our guidelines for the season, and then we set our season according to our situation,” said Alan Peoples, chief of Wildlife for [...]
September 17, 2008 | Posted in
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Jackson- The Commission on Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks approved dates for the 2008-2009 waterfowl hunting season, according to the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks (MDWFP). The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service released late-season frameworks in early August providing a “window” of dates from which states may select specific season dates.
The duck, merganser, and [...]
September 9, 2008 | Posted in
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Duck hunting changes also approved
Get ready, Utah goose hunters. You can hunt light geese into March this season.
At their Aug. 28 meeting in Salt Lake City, members of the Utah Wildlife Board approved Utah’s first–ever spring light goose hunt. Light geese include snow, blue and Ross’ geese.
The board also approved some duck hunting changes.
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Scaup [...]
September 2, 2008 | Posted in
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Alabama’s waterfowl hunters will again enjoy waterfowl seasons under the “liberal” designation from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). The 60-day regular duck, coot and merganser season will run Nov. 27 through Jan. 25 with a six-duck bag limit.
The daily limit can consist of no more than four mallards (no more than two of [...]
August 26, 2008 | Posted in
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FORT SISSETON HISTORIC STATE PARK, S.D.—The S.D. Game, Fish and Parks Commission finalized the state goose hunting seasons at its August meeting amid reports that goose populations remain robust.
“There will be a strong population of migrant birds,” Wildlife Division Assistant Director George Vandel told commissioners. “Snow geese numbers should still be quite good as well.”
With [...]
August 15, 2008 | Posted in
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The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission (LWFC) voted to tentatively adopt proposed season dates, bag limits and shooting hours for the 2008-09 migratory waterfowl season at their Aug. 7 meeting. The dates will be ratified by a declaration of emergency from the commission, after approval from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
The Louisiana Department of [...]
August 12, 2008 | Posted in
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The Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge today celebrated its 100th year of conserving and managing habitat for ducks, geese and other wildlife in the Klamath Basin. The Lower Klamath was the first refuge in the nation that was dedicated specifically for waterfowl conservation.
?Over the last century, millions of people have visited this Refuge and were [...]
August 11, 2008 | Posted in
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KEARNEY, Neb. — The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission’s board of commissioners voted to table staff recommendations for Nebraska’s 2008 waterfowl hunting season dates and regulations and took action on a variety of other subjects at a July 18 meeting in Kearney.
The recommendations for the 2008 waterfowl season dates tabled by the commissioners will be [...]
July 22, 2008 | Posted in
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