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  Starting this fall, the 1,500-acre East Zone addition to the Forever Wild Land Trust’s Old Cahawba Prairie Tract in Dallas County will be available for bowhunting each Thursday through Sunday from November 17, 2017, until February 10, 2018. Deer hunting in the East Zone is limited to bow and arrow, crossbow, or spear. No gun deer hunting will be allowed within the tract’s East Zone. Gun deer hunting is permitted on the... READ MORE

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Alabama’s thirteenth community archery park held its grand opening on Friday, November 3, at Wind Creek State Park near Alexander City, Ala. The Wind Creek Community Archery Park is located on Alabama Highway 128 near the park’s office. The archery park will be open year-round during normal park hours for recreational shooting, competitive tournaments and outdoor educational programming. The facility features a seven-target adult range from 20 to... READ MORE

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  Ice anglers are a nervous bunch it seems, from about the time of the whitetail rut, all throughout November. Even if ice doesn’t come in their neck of the woods until December, it seems we find more ways to worry about getting ready for it than we do once it’s actually here. While we can’t do anything about ice-formation, we can certainly give you a peek at an essential pre-ice checklist. Get the prep-work done, then rest easy until we get some single digit temps and calm winds... READ MORE

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  Florida hunters get your Osceola turkey in time for the holidays. Florida is the only place in the world where the Osceola subspecies is found. Also known as the Florida wild turkey, this unique bird lives only on the Florida peninsula. The Florida turkey hunting seasons are Zone A Nov. 18 - Jan. 7 --  Zone B Dec. 2 - Jan. 28 -- Zone C Nov. 4 - Dec. 31 and Zone D Nov. 23 – 26 and Dec. 9 – Jan. 14. Legal method of take is by...READ MORE

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The outlook for the upcoming waterfowl hunting seasons looks as promising as any seasons in recent memory. The duck, coot, and merganser seasons all open Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 23. It is shaping up to be a phenomenal year, said John Brunjes, migratory bird coordinator for the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources. We are still at all-time highs for... READ MORE

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The 2017-2018 Mississippi Paddlefish egg harvest season will open on November 20 and close April 10. Areas open for Paddlefish egg harvest are the Mississippi River (to include all public waters between the main line levees of the Mississippi River along the Mississippi-Arkansas border) and the Yazoo River Basin Harvest Zone. The Yazoo River Basin Harvest Zone includes... READ MORE

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  Anglers needn’t hang up their gear just because winter’s getting near. There’s still plenty of fishing fun to be found at Oklahoma’s seasonal and year-round trout fishing areas! Each year, the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation stocks trout at six seasonal trout fishing areas across the state, beginning Nov. 1 and continuing into March or April. Those areas are... READ MORE

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The Wyoming Game and Fish Department diagnosed chronic wasting disease (CWD) for the first time in Deer Hunt Area 118 near Meeteetse, Wyoming. The Game and Fish Wildlife Health Laboratory confirmed CWD in a buck white-tailed deer harvested by a hunter on Nov. 3 near Gooseberry Creek. Deer Hunt Area 118 is bordered on three sides by hunt areas where CWD has been found previously. A map of the CWD endemic areas is... READ MORE

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  The Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism (KDWPT) and sponsoring partners will conduct the 2017 Youth and Women’s Celebrity Pheasant Hunt at Waconda Lake on Saturday, Dec. 9. Hunters must apply no later than Nov. 30. The event will begin at 7:15 a.m. with breakfast in the Hopewell Church basement at Glen Elder State Park, followed by a pre-hunt safety program. Hunters, guides, and mentors will then spend the remainder of the morning and early afternoon hunting various limited-access... READ MORE

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Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks, and Tourism (KDWPT) game wardens, Kansas Highway Patrol (KHP) troopers and county sheriff’s deputies will conduct joint highway checkpoints at various locations on Saturday, Nov. 18, 2017. Upland bird, deer and migratory bird seasons will be underway, and these checkpoints are intended to help enforce state and federal wildlife laws, as well as... READ MORE

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  Iowa hunters will have a new option this fall while hunting deer during the youth season, disabled hunter season and both shotgun seasons – rifles that are capable of shooting straight walled cartridges. The law was enacted to allow for a lower recoil option for older and younger hunters, but is available to all hunters in those four seasons. The law allows for... READ MORE

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Preliminary tests show that seven deer harvested in southeastern Minnesota’s disease management zone during the first firearms deer season may be infected with chronic wasting disease. Hunters harvested three of the seven suspect deer near Preston in deer permit area 603, where 11 other deer tested positive during last year’s CWD surveillance efforts. Three others were harvested in Forestville-Mystery Cave State Park, which is still within area 603 but west of... READ MORE

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The snow conditions make for noisy walking, but hunters are starting to see some older age bucks come through the check stations. Montana Hunters are reporting seeing bucks sparring and rubbing antlers on trees. Overall hunter numbers and percentage of hunters with game were below last year’s numbers at the 5 game check stations in Region 1 for… READ MORE

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  The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) has confirmed the presence of invasive giant salvinia at three locations on Lake Fork – the largest total infestation ever found on the lake. Personnel from the Sabine River Authority (SRA) and the Tyler North district fisheries office confirmed the infestation Thursday, Oct. 26, within hours of being notified by a local property owner. The TPWD Brookeland aquatic invasive species team later coordinated the placement of a containment boom to... READ MORE

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