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Vermont wild turkey hunters had safe and successful spring and fall hunting seasons in 2015, according to the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department. A total of 5,874 turkeys were taken by hunters during Vermonts three hunting seasons – the spring youth hunt, the regular May spring season, and the fall hunt. Young turkey hunters mentored by experienced hunters took 510 bearded turkeys, which are almost always males, during the youth turkey hunt on the weekend before the regular spring season. READ MORE

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   Environmental groups are objecting to how a federal agency has developed a new management plan for handling conflicts between wolves and livestock producers in Wyoming. Wildlife Services, an agency with the U.S. Agriculture Department’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, completed an environmental planning document last fall that favored its current lethal and nonlethal wolf conflict management program. READ MORE

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   Asian carp have yet to establish a presence in the Great Lakes, but scientists have already begun researching the possible effects of an invasion by the non-native species.

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   Officials with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (DFW) confirmed recently that another gray wolf has entered California from Oregon last month.  According to the department, the wolf is a three-year-old male named OR-25 with dark fur. Officials say that the wolf has most recently been spotted in Modoc County and is likely following basic dispersal behavior. Young male wolves like to wander, especially if there are no available females nearby. That same reason was why OR-7, the first gray wolf to enter California in about 100 years, across the state border in 2011. OR-7 has since returned to Oregon to start its own pack, but experts are unsure if OR-25 will do the same, especially since there is now a wolf pack in California. READ MORE

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   An amended Delaware tilefish regulation that reduces recreational and commercial harvest of the blueline and golden tilefish, species that have grown in fishing popularity in recent years, will take effect Jan. 11, DNRECs Division of Fish & Wildlife announced today. Blueline and golden tilefish in combination will carry a recreational limit of seven fish per person per day aboard a vessel, with a commercial harvest combination limit of 300 pounds of tilefish per day. A recent stock assessment indicated that blueline tilefish are overfished and that overfishing is continuing. READ MORE

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   In case you are unsure what you are looking at, teeth seem to be growing out of the side of this mountain lions head. According to the Idaho State Journal, this yearling cougar was harvested by a hunter near Weston, Idaho last week and photos were sent to the Idaho Department of Fish and Game for identification. The problem is, biologists are just as confused over what exactly caused the deformity. It has all of us scratching our heads, wildlife biologist Zach Lockyer told the Journal. Its a bizarre situation and a bizarre photo.

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   The final Fisher Management Plan addresses population fluctuations in different regions of the state while offering trappers an additional trapping season, the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) announced today with the release of the adaptive management strategy. DEC biologists developed the plan with input from trapping enthusiasts to manage population declines of fishers in Northern New York and population increases in central and western New York. The plan reduces the trapping season in the north by 16 days while establishing a new six-day season in the central and western parts of the state.  READ MORE

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   If Zakk Royce’s experiences are any indication, Lake Gaston holds some monster blue catfish.The Murfreesboro angler caught not one but two state record blue catfishes in a 24-hour period last month. The first fish, caught on Dec. 20, weighed 91 pounds and measured 53 inches in length. On Dec. 21, Royce landed his second state record, a 105-pound blue, measuring 55.75 inches in length. He caught both fish using cut bait.  READ MORE

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A new black bear strategy, started in Utah in 2015, did exactly what wildlife managers hoped it would: it led to government agencies taking fewer bears and hunters taking more. Members of the Utah Wildlife Board approved a similar bear hunting strategy for the new year. The strategy splits Utah's bear hunt into six seasons. The seasons are held at various times in the spring, summer and fall. Each of the six seasons is unique. For example, during some seasons, hunters are allowed to hunt bears with trained hunting dogs that track and tree bears. During other hunts, hounds are not allowed. READ MORE

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The tragic death of country music singer Craig Strickland and friend Chase Morland serves as a shocking reminder that accidents on the water do happen, and can be fatal if hunters and anglers don’t take the extra precautions to make their vessel as safe as possible. The two men died when their duck hunting boat capsized on Kaw Lake in Oklahoma, Dec. 27. Boating while hunting adds a few new dimensions to water safety... READ MORE

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