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  The Wisconsin DNR staff will help bird hunters beat cabin fever this December - 2,160 pheasants will be stocked on eight different properties in southern Wisconsin during the week leading up to the winter holidays. The pheasant season runs through January 6, 2019. Hunters are encouraged to wear blaze orange while upland bird hunting to increase visibility with other hunters. Properties to be stocked before the holiday season include... READ MORE

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  The Florida recreational harvest season for snook closes Dec. 15 in Atlantic state and federal waters, including Lake Okeechobee and the Kissimmee River, and will remain closed through Jan. 31, 2019, reopening to harvest Feb. 1. Anglers may continue to catch and release snook during the closed season. Most state and all federal waters in the Gulf, including Monroe County and Everglades National Park, closed Dec. 1 and will reopen to harvest March 1, 2019. In addition... READ MORE

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  Indiana 2018-19 duck hunting season in the NORTH Zone opened Dec 22 and runs through Dec 30. The CENTRAL Zone Opened Nov 24 and runs through Jan 13, 2019.  The SOUTH Zone opened Dec 1 and runs through Jan 20 2019. The daily bag limit for ducks is six. This includes any combination of goldeneyes, ruddy ducks, ring-necked ducks, buffleheads, gadwalls, long-tailed ducks, scoters, teal, wigeon and shovelers. Included in the daily limit of six are additional restrictions on the following... READ MORE

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Indiana 2018 deer muzzlerloader season opened Dec 8 and runs through Dec 23. Deer hunting hours: ½ hour before sunrise to ½ hour after sunset. All harvested deer and turkey must be checked within 48 hours of harvest at an official deer or turkey check station or online. Special Antlerless season only in counties with a bonus antlerless quota of 4 or more. Indiana 2018 deer hunting seasons are... READ MORE

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  Last week, representatives of the Michigan DNR, Pheasants Forever and several other groups gathered at Maple River State Game Area (which stretches through Clinton, Gratiot and Ionia counties) to launch the Adopt-A-Game-Area program and dedicate a kiosk recognizing sponsors of the game area. This new program encourages individuals and organizations to sponsor grassland habitat projects on the state-managed lands they use and value. Maple River is the first to... READ MORE

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Bear hunters who are successful in 2019 and after would be required to submit a bear tooth sample to be eligible for the upcoming year’s bear hunting license lottery under a new rule proposed by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. The DNR has for many years required hunters to submit bear tooth samples. In response to low compliance, the agency two years ago began mailing letters reminding hunters to send the samples. The proposed rule would... READ MORE

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  Anglers will be able to keep fewer walleye and sauger beginning Friday, March 1, on Lake of the Woods and the Rainy River, according to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. The winter regulations on Lake of the Woods will match the current summer regulations, reducing the aggregate walleye and sauger limit from eight to six, with no more than four walleye. On the Rainy River and Fourmile Bay... READ MORE

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The West Virginia Division of Natural Resources would like to remind beaver, bobcat, fisher and otter trappers that they are required to electronically register their catches within 30 days after the close of the respective season. The furbearer trapping seasons in West Virginia opened Nov. 3. A game check confirmation number issued by the DNR must be recorded in writing with the trapper's name and address, or written on a field tag, and must be... READ MORE

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  Preliminary data collected from the electronic game checking system indicates that deer hunters in West Virginia harvested 44,572 antlered deer during the two-week buck firearms season which ran from Nov. 19 through Dec. 1, 2018, according to Gary Foster, assistant chief of Game Management with the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources Wildlife Resources Section.  The top 10 counties for buck harvest in 2018 were... READ MORE

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  Alabama hunters harvested 144 alligators during the 2018 seasons with the heaviest weighing in at 700 pounds. A total of 260 tags were issued in the four hunting zones. John Herthum of Montgomery took the 700-pound gator that measured 11 feet, 10 inches in the Southeast Zone, which includes private and public waters in Barbour, Coffee, Covington, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston, and Russell counties. Herthum’s big gator was among 10 harvested in that zone, which... READ MORE

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  The wait is over for hunters eager to get out and stomp around the often steep and rocky terrain of southeastern Arizona in search of Mearns’ quail. The season began Friday, Dec. 7, and runs through Feb. 10, 2019. The season for Gambel’s, scaled and California quail has been underway since Oct. 19 and also closes Feb. 10, 2019. The general bag limit is 15 quail per day in the aggregate, of which no more than... READ MORE

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Enthusiastic painters are welcome to submit entries to the Hawaii DLNR (DOFAW) in an art contest to depict a game mammal and game bird for its 2019-2020 hunting stamp. The wildlife conservation stamp is a requirement on the Hawai‘i state hunting license and the game bird stamp is required for those intending to hunt game birds. Both stamps will be available to wildlife stamp collectors. Here are the requirements for entries in this year’s contest... READ MORE

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  New public land deer hunting regulations highlighted the quarterly meeting of the Kentucky Fish and Wildlife Commission Friday, Dec. 7. The Legislature must approve regulation recommendations before they become law. The commission proposed changes for deer quota hunts on several wildlife management areas (WMAs) and state parks. These changes would become effective for the 2019-2020 deer seasons... READ MORE

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