TBC Press - Outdoor Hunting, Fishing News

   The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) is accepting deer lottery hunt applications for physically challenged hunters on Sabine and Floy McElroy Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs) and disabled veterans on Camp Beauregard WMA for the 2017-18 hunting season. These special hunts are restricted to hunters selected through the lottery application process. The application deadline is Sept. 1. Details on the qualifications, application requirements and... READ MORE

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The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) is accepting applications for youth lottery deer hunts on five LDWF Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs) during the 2017-18 hunting season. Youth lottery deer hunts will be held on Buckhorn, Dewey W. Wills, Floy Ward McElroy, Richard K. Yancey and Sherburne WMAs. These hunts are restricted to youth hunters between the ages of ... READ MORE

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  Operation Orphans, Inc. has selected four dates for doe hunts during the forthcoming whitetail season. They are the following Saturdays: October 28 November 18, December 2 and January 6. The October date will be an all girls’ hunt, while the remaining dates will be all boys’ hunts. This is the 58th year of the Take a Child Hunting program. During this program, landowners from the surrounding hill country allow children from child care facilities to harvest deer from their property. Interested individuals are encouraged to... READ MORE

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  Thousands of Arkansans have been waiting on pins and needles for the last few weeks to find out if they were one of the lucky few who drew a chance at harvesting an alligator in Arkansas this year. Today, 101 individuals got the good news.The permit draw was held up due to some unforeseen issues with the process. Arkansas’s 2017 alligator season is Sept. 15-18 and Sept. 22-25, and hunting is only allowed at night. All permit winners must... READ MORE

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  The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) is offering a drawing for an apprentice deer hunt for junior license holders on the Chimineas Unit of the Carrizo Plains Ecological Reserve. The application deadline is Monday, Aug. 21.The two-day buck hunt, which is being offered in cooperation with the California Deer Association (CDA), will be held... READ MORE

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The bay scallop season off Gulf County remains postponed due to a naturally occurring algae bloom in St. Joseph Bay. The season postponement will continue until scallop samples test safe for human consumption. The bay scallop season off Gulf County was slated to open July 25, but this season was postponed in all state waters from the Mexico Beach Canal in Bay County through the westernmost point of St. Vincent Island in Franklin County. All other areas currently open for bay scallop recreational harvest remain unaffected, including... READ MORE

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  Beginning deer hunters have a unique opportunity to participate in one of two bonus antlerless deer hunts that will take place on private lands in Love County (Oct. 20, 2017, orientation on Oct. 19, 2017) and Ellis County (Oct. 27-28, 2017). This year, 35 youths will be selected to receive one of the bonus private lands antlerless deer gun permits. To be eligible, youths must have completed... READ MORE

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Oklahomans will soon get more public places to hunt and view wildlife. Beginning Sept. 1, the statewide opening of the dove season, the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation will open new areas for public hunting that the agency is leasing from private landowners. Jeff Tibbits, the agency's wildlife biologist for the new Oklahoma Land Access Program, said the Wildlife Department is still enrolling... READ MORE

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ODFW wildlife managers intend to remove some of the adult wolves in northeast Oregon’s Harl Butte pack to limit further livestock losses as non-lethal measures and hazing have not been successful in limiting wolf depredations. On July 28, ODFW received a lethal removal request from several affected livestock producers from a local grazing association after two depredations were confirmed in a five-day period. They asked... READ MORE

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  The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) plan to hold a public meeting on  Aug. 29 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Sedro-Woolley Community Center for future management of the North Cascades elk herd. WDFW is also accepting public comments by mail and online through Sept. 7. Since the last herd management plan was adopted in 2002, the population of the herd – the smallest that WDFW manages – has rebounded from ... READ MORE

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