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Sportsmen are reminded that a free permit is required to participate in the 2018 Light Goose Conservation season which will be held Feb. 11-March 9. The application for the free permit is now available on the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency’s website. The Light Goose Conservation season is for Blue, Snow and Ross’s geese. The following provisions apply during the Light Goose Season only... READ MORE

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  The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency will hold the inaugural Young Sportsman Squirrel Hunt at Buffalo Ridge Refuge in Humphreys County on Saturday, Feb. 17. There is no cost to participate in the hunt for youth ages 6-16. Buffalo Ridge Refuge has been the site of youth deer, Becoming An Outdoors-Woman, and Wounded Soldier events, but this will be the first youth squirrel hunt. The hunt will be limited to... READ MORE

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  The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) is offering wild pig hunting opportunities in March and April at the Grizzly Island Wildlife Area in Solano County. Applications must be submitted by 4 pm on Wednesday, Feb. 14. Three hunters will be drawn for eight consecutive weekends for a total of 24 hunters. The first hunt weekend, March 3-4, will be reserved for... READ MORE 

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Florida Zone D has a late muzzleloading gun season that extends deer hunting by a week after general gun ends, and runs Feb. 19-25 on private lands. The season was established to give hunters an opportunity to continue hunting the rut, which runs from mid-January through February in northwest Florida. A $5 muzzleloading gun permit is required to hunt during this season. On private land, hunters have the choice of using... READ MORE

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  The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), in conjunction with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, has established Feb. 3-4 as this year’s statewide Youth Waterfowl Hunting Days. This weekend is specifically set up for children 15 and younger to hunt waterfowl, coots and common moorhens while being supervised by an adult (18 years or older). Only the kids may hunt; adults may only assist. Because only children 15 and younger may hunt during these two days, no licenses or permits are needed, including... READ MORE

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At the end of the fourth weekend of the Montana Sage Creek Special Chronic Wasting Disease Hunt in northern Liberty County, hunters have checked in 111 mule deer. So far 95 of the deer have tested negative for CWD, test results from the remaining deer are pending. The hunt started Jan. 6 and will run until either Feb. 15 or a 157-deer quota is reached. The special hunt is designed to... READ MORE

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  Attention Nevada turkey hunters, it's that time of year. Submit your Spring 2018 turkey application on our updated website. Tag applications will be accepted until 11 p.m. February 6, 2018. New features include an interactive map that will make filling out your application easier than ever. All bonus points, eligibilities, and client status have been uploaded to the new system. Right now you will... READ MORE 

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A $2,500 donation from Jelindo and Sandee Tiberti has led to donations from both Nevada Bighorns Unlimited (NBU) and the Fraternity of the Desert Bighorn, raising the reward to $10,000 for any information that will help solve a case of an adult moose illegally killed 20 miles southeast of Jarbidge. The dead moose was discovered and reported by a concerned citizen on Christmas Day approximately 100 yards west of ... READ MORE 

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Recreational sturgeon seasons in Bonneville and John Day pools will close in February under rules announced today by fishery managers from Oregon and Washington. The states decided to close recreational white sturgeon retention effective Sunday, Feb. 4 in Bonneville Pool and effective Monday, Feb. 12 in John Day Pool. The closure in John Day Pool is based on... READ MORE

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  When Utah angler Buckley Jolley felt a heavy pull on his fishing rod, he knew he was close to seeing something extraordinary. It was a weighty realization, knowing a possible once-in-a-lifetime fish was dangling on the end of a 7-pound fly line and fighting to get away. He felt heavy, Jolley says. I had to play the fish just right and let him run if he needed to run. From the shore, Jolley began to see... READ MORE

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Family, friends, big fish and fun are on tap Feb. 10 for the opening day of sturgeon spearing season on the Lake Winnebago system. The Winnebago System is home to the world's largest self-sustaining population of lake sturgeon, with an estimated 19,000 adult females and 24,000 adult males, and a unique spearing season dating back more than 85 years. As always, water clarity and ice conditions determine spearer success, and we won't definitively know conditions until... READ MORE

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  The Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks is proposing increasing turkey hunting licenses for the fall hunting season in an effort to control a growing population of wild turkeys in Bitterroot. The department is considering raising the number of beardless turkey licenses a hunter can purchase for the fall season in Ravalli and Missoula counties from... READ MORE

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