Friday, November 20, 2009
Click here for RSS feedELKO, Nev. (AP) -- Nevada game wardens are seeking information about two elk poached in northern Elko County near the Idaho line. Nevada Department of Wildlife the cow elk and a calf were shot in the head with a high powered rifle and left to waste. They were found Tuesday at Young Americ ...
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JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) -- The Wyoming Game and Fish Commission has set an antler and horn gathering season for public land west of the Continental Divide in an effort to protect big game on winter range. In an unanimous vote Thursday, the commission set the season for Ap ...
Friday, November 20, 2009 11:00 AM
WELLS, Nev. (AP) -- State transportation officials say work should be completed by the end of the year on a $1.8 million wildlife overpass in northeast Nevada. Workers this week were to finish installing the concrete base of the structure that will span U.S. 93 about 10 miles north of Wel ...
Friday, November 20, 2009 10:59 AM
AVALON, Calif. (AP) -- Birth control for bison? That's what conservationists are giving a herd on Santa Catalina Island in an attempt to reduce the population. Females over the age of 2 will be injected with a contraceptive under a five-year experimental program that begins Friday. ...
Friday, November 20, 2009 11:06 AM
LA GRANDE, Ore. (AP) -- State police have agreed to pay $295,000 to Mark Hemstreet and Gregg Clapper to settle a lawsuit over hunting violation charges that were thrown out. State police say the settlement was in the best interest of the state. Hemstreet is a hotel owner active ...
Friday, November 20, 2009 9:04 AM
BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- Hunters will have three more months to hunt wolves in Idaho. The Idaho Fish and Game Commission voted Thursday to stretch the season to March 31, 2010 in the Panhandle, Palouse-Hells Canyon, Selway, Middle Fork, Salmon, Southern, and South Idaho zones. Hunting in ...
Friday, November 20, 2009 9:04 AM
BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- State officials say hunters have reached their limit for killing wolves in a hunting zone in northern Idaho. The Idaho Department of Fish and Game on Tuesday closed the Dworshak-Elk City zone after hunters reached the quota of 18 wolves for the area. It's t ...
Thursday, November 19, 2009 12:48 PM
Rocky Patterson placed in seven of 10 rounds to win the world title at the Clem McSpadden National Finals Steer Roping Saturday, Nov. 14, at the Lazy E Arena in Guthrie, Okla. The Pratt, Kan., cowboy earned a little more than $31,000 over 10 rounds to edge out two-time world champion Sc ...
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 4:04 PM
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Hunters have almost met the state's 75-animal season quota, so Montana on Monday ended its first public hunt for gray wolves since their removal from the endangered species list. The action came two weeks before the season's scheduled close. Hunting wil ...
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 11:18 AM
LEWISTON, Idaho (AP) -- Idaho wildlife officials are thinking about extending the wolf hunting season in certain hunting zones across the state. The Idaho Fish and Game Commission is scheduled to meet in Coeur d'Alene later this week, and a proposal to extend the season in certain areas m ...
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 10:48 AM
KALISPELL, Mont. (AP) -- The illegal shooting of an 800-pound grizzly bear is the latest of several cases of poachers killing a trophy animal and leaving its carcass to rot, Montana wildlife officials said. The bear, known as Maximus, was found Aug. 12 on a ranch near Dupuyer. The bo ...
Friday, November 13, 2009 1:33 PM
Step back non-believers, Kody Lostroh is the newly crowned Professional Bull Riders World Champion. Lostroh won the title Sunday afternoon in front of a packed house in the Thomas and Mack Center in Las Vegas. "It feels good. It's been a long week and it's good ...
Thursday, November 12, 2009 8:48 AM
MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) -- After decades of counting live salmon and steelhead reaching the upper Rogue River, biologists will be stuck counting only dead ones if Gold Ray Dam and its long-standing fish-counting station disappear as proposed next fall. Jackson County is weighing whether to remove th ...
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 4:33 PM
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- State wildlife officials say they are shutting down wolf hunting along the North Fork of the Flathead River after the shooting of two wolves filled the area's season-long quota. The area known as the North Fork Sub-unit, located just west of Glacier National Park, will c ...
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 3:18 PM
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) -- In a bid to take over management of gray wolves, Wyoming argues there's no biological reason that the predators should be treated as a trophy game species throughout the entire state. The state made that argument Monday in a brief filed in U.S. District Court in Cheyenne. ...
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 1:18 PM
BEND, Ore. (AP) -- The low-lying sun cast shadows on the basalt field across the river just upstream of the Big Eddy Rapids. The sounds of the stream echoing through the cold, quiet air soothed the soul. Rainbow and brown trout lurked somewhere beneath the surface, looking for food to sustain the ...
Sunday, November 08, 2009 8:33 AM
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) -- Yellowstone National Park has set a record for annual visitation with two months still to count this year. The park recorded 3,267,683 visitors from January through October this year. That exceeds the previous 12-month record of 3.15 million vi ...
Saturday, November 07, 2009 10:18 AM
COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho (AP) -- Hecla Mining Company officials could decide next spring whether to move forward with an expansion of the Lucky Friday Mine in Mullan, Idaho. Hecla President Phillips Baker Jr. said he's highly confident the company will launch the $150 million to $200 milli ...
Friday, November 06, 2009 10:49 AM
BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- Hunters reached the five-wolf limit in Eastern Idaho's Upper Snake Wolf Zone, prompting state wildlife managers to close the season there. Two other zones were also approaching their limits Monday. In the McCall-Weiser Zone, with a limit of 15 wolves, 14 wolves have be ...
Wednesday, November 04, 2009 4:18 PM
Cedar Creek, Sandy Fish Hatchery, jammed with fish PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Big numbers of coho salmon are surging up the Columbia River this fall. About 700,000 coho were projected to return to the river system this year -- at least 200,000 more than last year, according to the Oreg ...
Thursday, October 29, 2009 7:50 PM
BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- State wildlife officials say the first wolf hunting tag ever printed in the state has sold for $8,000 to the highest bidder. The high bid came from North Carolina resident Jonny Morris, the founder of Bass Pro Shops. Morris bought Wolf Tag No. 1 last week in an auction spon ...
Thursday, October 29, 2009 6:58 PM
POCATELLO, Idaho (AP) -- A Canadian company is seeking permission to conduct some exploratory drilling in phosphate reserves located in two roadless areas in southeastern Idaho. The proposal by Canadian fertilizer company Agrium Inc. calls for drilling 158 holes on about 52 acres 17 mi ...
Saturday, October 31, 2009 10:33 AM
ANTELOPE, Ore. (AP) -- A swap involving land at the site of the former Rajneeshee commune could lead to the creation of two new wilderness areas in Central Oregon. The Bulletin newspaper of Bend reports that a Christian-based summer camp is working on the exchange that would also make roughly 1 ...
Thursday, October 29, 2009 3:34 PM
BAKER CITY, Ore. (AP) -- Matea Huggins isn't even a teenager yet but already she's the star of a hunting tale that would enchant listeners at any Oregon campfire. It's even true, this story. Truth being a quality which is, well, a bit scarce in many of the yarns spun after dark ...
Thursday, October 29, 2009 10:34 AM
BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- State fisheries managers plan to stock 300 or more hatchery steelhead in the Boise River between Glenwood Bridge and Barber Park on Thursday. Anglers aiming to catch one of these fish that range in size from 4 pounds to 10 pounds need a valid Idaho fishing license, plus a $ ...
Thursday, October 29, 2009 8:48 AM
Cody Ford can't wait for the 16th Professional Bull Rider World Finals to start this weekend in Las Vegas. The bull rider from Stanfield, Ore., is excited to be competing for the second time on the big stage at the Thomas and Mack Center. "Man, I'm just ecstatic about it to tell you ...
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