Public may feel left out of SD big-game management

The half dozen people who attended a meeting on big-game management suggested Wednesday that many South Dakota hunters and landowners feel their views are not taken into consideration in the management of deer, elk, antelope and mountain lions in the state. MORE :: (0) COMMENTS

Nebraska mountain lion season to be considered

At their next meeting, Nebraska Game and Parks commissioners will consider a staff recommendation to create a mountain lion hunting season. MORE :: (0) COMMENTS

Texas senior, 18, bags 800-pound record alligator

A Houston-area high school senior has bagged a 14-foot, 800 pound alligator — the heaviest ever certified in Texas — on his first alligator hunt. MORE :: (0) COMMENTS

State commission approves wolf hunt in Michigan

Michigan now has a wolf hunting season after a board voted Thursday to allow hunters and trappers to kill up to 43 of the animals in selected parts of the state's Upper Peninsula. MORE :: (0) COMMENTS

Wildlife ranger fined for poaching mule deer

A Colorado Parks and Wildlife ranger has been fined and demoted for using artificial light while poaching a trophy mule deer after legal hunting hours last October. MORE :: (0) COMMENTS

Wyo. Game and Fish to begin research-trapping wolves

Game and Fish officials say the trapping is set to begin Tuesday and continue through June 15. MORE :: (0) COMMENTS

Southwest Va. to take in more Ky. elk in May

Southwest Virginia will see its second delivery of elk in May under a pilot program to introduce the Rocky Mountain version of a native species that was last seen in the state around the time of the Civil War. MORE :: (0) COMMENTS

• Wis. outdoorsmen vote: No dogs in wolf hunt, April 14
• Yellowstone bison hunt takes most since ‘89, March 23
• Minn. moose tracking finds wolves taking a share, March 18
• Ex-tribal leaders to settle over musicians’ hunts, March 05
• Montana hunters, trappers kill at least 223 wolves, March 04
• Wis. state senator wants block use of dogs in wolf hunt, March 04
• West Virginia could expand black bear hunting, February 25
• Elk Refuge managers monitor resident wolf pack, February 23
• California game warden shoots, kills mountain lion, February 20
• More mountain lions in Nebraska prompts calls for hunting, February 18
• Wyoming House votes to approve silencers for hunting, February 14
• Animal welfare groups sue to end Midwest wolf hunt, February 13
• Expanded wolf hunt flying through Montana legislature, February 11
• Pronghorn herds decline in Arizona along border, February 04
• Only 8 of 23 Minnesota hunters bag elk, February 03
• Animal rights groups want vote on Michigan wolf hunt, February 02
• Minnesota moose hunting questioned as numbers fall, January 29
• Judge keeps wolf season going outside Yellowstone, January 19
• Yellowstone-area wolf hunting, trapping rules back in court, January 14
• Wyoming Bison hunt hits goal of 200 by season close, January 14

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