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Adjustments have been made for the August handheld duck bling drawings and an update on a fisheries research cooperative effort was given among the agenda items at the June meeting of the Tennessee Fish and Wildlife Commission. The commission requested TWRA staff review the handheld duck blind drawing process for consistency and ways to reduce the likelihood of buying/selling of blind sites. At the Aug. 3 blind drawings, a two stage process will be used.. READ MORE. 

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  The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency has announced the application period for the 2019 Wildlife Management Area (WMA) Big Game Quota hunts, the Cherokee Party Dog hunts, the regular and youth elk hunts, and WMA youth hunts will run from June 19 through July 24. Applications must be submitted before midnight (CDT) July 24. The state’s 11th annual gun elk hunts will be held... READ MORE 

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Applications for the West Virginia 2019 Antlerless Deer Season limited permit areas are now available online. Applications will be accepted until midnight, Aug. 14. Hunters who apply for a limited antlerless firearms permit must use the Electronic Licensing System. Hunters also may select a secondary county or WMA. Hunters without accounts can create one. The following wildlife management areas and counties are open for this drawing... READ MORE

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  West Virginia waterfowl hunters who wish to hunt from a shooting station in the controlled waterfowl hunting zone of McClintic Wildlife Management Area (WMA), located near Point Pleasant, must submit an application by midnight Aug. 12. Hunting is by permit only on a portion of McClintic WMA during the October split of the waterfowl season. Hunters chosen in the lottery draw will be assigned an... READ MORE

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Beginning July 1 at 8 a.m. the Wyoming Game and Fish Department will accept applications for limited quota fall turkey, sandhill crane and beaver as well as applications to the Glendo and Springer special pheasant hunts and preference points. Preference points can be purchased for resident and nonresident moose and bighorn sheep and nonresident elk, deer and antelope. In addition... READ MORE

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  Beginning July 1 at 8 a.m. the Wyoming Game and Fish Department will accept applications for the Glendo and Springer special pheasant hunts as well as applications for limited quota fall turkey, sandhill crane and beaver and preference points. Preference points can be purchased for resident and nonresident moose and bighorn sheep and nonresident elk, deer and antelope. In addition... READ MORE

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  Georgia waterfowl hunters can begin making season plans now that the 2019-2020 migratory bird season hunting dates and regulations were recently approved by the Board of Natural Resources. The 2019-2020 waterfowl hunting season has changed compared to previous years. Some need-to-know dates and details for waterfowl season are: The duck hunting season will end on the fixed date of January 31 each year, not the last Sunday in January. The daily bag limit for mallards dropped to two this year, with... READ MORE 

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  Online applications will be accepted from resident Illinois hunters through June 30 for the first lottery for Illinois Free Dove Hunting Permits for hunting at select state sites. Application information for Free Dove Permits for the first 5 days of the season (Sept. 1 - Sept. 5) and for the Youth and Youth/Adult Hunt (September 1):  Dove Hunting Permit Instructions.  In addition... READ MORE 

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The application deadline is June 14, 2019 for Kansas resident hunters wanting to apply for an elk, either-species/either-sex deer, or antelope permit. Earlier this year, the Kansas Wildlife, Parks and Tourism Commission voted in favor of moving the resident limited draw deer and elk permit application deadlines to the second Friday in June. This is the first year application deadlines for either-species/either-sex deer and elk permits will coincide with... READ MORE

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  For nearly a decade, the Quality Deer Management Association (QDMA) has compiled and disseminated some of North America’s finest research on whitetail deer. This year’s Whitetail Report lays a finger squarely on the pulse of America’s deer hunters and provides a long-term look at what’s truly happening in the world of whitetails. Here are a few important figures from the 2019 QDMA Whitetail Report... READ MORE

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  The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) announces that Cesar Rodriguez of Carthage is now the state record-holder for hybrid striped bass after catching a 21-pound, 11-ounce fish at Lake of the Ozarks May 19. Rodriguez used the pole-and-line method. Though the fish breaks Missouri’s previous hybrid striped bass record of a 20-pound, 8-ounce fish, set in 1986 at the Lake of the Ozarks, Rodriguez wasn’t... READ MORE 

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  In two separate cases, hikers became lost in the wilds of Maui Hawaii last month (May 2019). Both were 35 years old and each one was in great physical condition. There was even an overlap in the time that the two hikers were missing. While their exact survival situations were very different, the circumstances for each were similar. One hiker was found alive by rescuers, the other, sadly, was found dead. Here is a look at both cases from a survivalist’s point of view and provides some info on... READ MORE

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For the upcoming 2019 Wisconsin fall turkey hunting, the drawing has been waived. A fall turkey harvest authorization will be issued with every fall turkey or conservation patron license purchase. Bonus harvest authorizations, formerly known as leftover tags, will be available for purchase in select zones starting in August. Wisconsin’s fall turkey season is conducted differently than spring. In the fall, there is... READ MORE

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  The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) issued an executive order on June 5, suspending the harvest and possession of shoal bass from the Chipola River and its tributaries effective immediately until the order is repealed. Anglers are still permitted to catch and immediately release shoal bass. The shoal bass population in the Chipola River and its tributaries has potentially been affected due to... READ MORE 

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