Tuesday, February 09, 2010
Click here for RSS feedWASILLA, Alaska (AP) -- Given the obsession with television cooking shows, it's only natural an episode of "Ice Road Truckers" would spawn a series of culinary classes focused on gourmet wild game. When the History Channel show came to Alaska last spring to profile the frozen ...
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) -- Driving the curvy roads amid wooded areas, rural farms and intermittent fields east of Lawrence, Terrence Elliot regaled his passengers with hunting tales. Among those listening were avid hunter Harry Ummel, 14, and his mother, Neysa Horyna-Ummel, both of Topeka. ...
Sunday, February 07, 2010 9:08 AM
Billionaire seeks 88 Yellowstone animals for their pure genes BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Billionaire Ted Turner is getting 88 bison from Yellowstone National Park from a faltering Montana program that was supposed to put the disease-free animals on public or tribal lands. Fish, Wildlife and Par ...
Sunday, February 07, 2010 12:09 AM
MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) -- A fledgling group of duck and goose advocates is hoping a simple contraption of metal and grass will make a big splash in a waterfowl wonderland that is smack-dab in the middle of the Agate Desert. The new local chapter of Delta Waterfowl is taking a page from its ...
Saturday, February 06, 2010 3:49 PM
BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- Six environmental groups have joined a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Forest Service over whether the state can land helicopters in a roadless area to collar wolves. The groups are asking a judge to temporarily stop Idaho's plans to fly helicopters into the Frank Churc ...
Friday, February 05, 2010 1:48 PM
BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- State wildlife managers say another Idaho wolf hunting zone has been shut down after hunters filled a state quota. The Department of Fish and Game has closed the Middle Fork zone, where the limit of 17 wolves was reached Monday. Five other hunting zones have also been sh ...
Thursday, February 04, 2010 8:08 AM
JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) -- Officials with the Conservation Fund say the group has secured a conservation easement protecting the last bottleneck along the pronghorn migration route. The conservation easement protects 2,400 acres of the Carney Ranch in Sublette County. The ranch lies along the mig ...
Thursday, February 04, 2010 8:08 AM
BUTTE, Mont. (AP) -- State wildlife officials have authorized the killing of the remaining one or two members of a wolf pack in the Big Hole Valley after repeated attacks on cattle west of Wisdom. Last week, federal trappers confirmed that the Bender pack had killed a calf on a private ranch ...
Thursday, February 04, 2010 8:08 AM
MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) -- State wildlife officials have confirmed an outbreak of pneumonia in a fourth herd of bighorn sheep in west-central Montana. The latest occurrence was found in the Upper Rock Creek herd, which had about 340 sheep in May, FWP biologist Ray Vinkey said Monday. Vinke ...
Wednesday, February 03, 2010 4:29 PM
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- A former Montana state senator and wildlife commissioner has been tapped as Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar's senior adviser for the Northwest. Missoula attorney Steve Doherty served 12 years in the Montana Senate and chaired the Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commission ...
Wednesday, February 03, 2010 8:09 AM
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) -- The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has no legitimate reason for its refusal to turn over management of gray wolves to the state of Wyoming, the state told a federal judge on Friday. U.S. District Judge Alan B. Johnson of Cheyenne heard arguments Friday in a lawsuit ...
Sunday, January 31, 2010 5:29 PM
BEND, Ore. (AP) -- The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife says the Lower Deschutes River will open for a spring chinook salmon season from April 1 through July 31. That's a big change from last year when the season was closed on the central Oregon river due to a wild chinook run ...
Sunday, January 31, 2010 9:28 AM
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Thousands of acres of Central Oregon land once occupied by the infamous Rajneeshpuram commune would be protected under legislation introduced Thursday by Oregon Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley. The Cathedral Rock and Horse Heaven Wilderness Act would preserve al ...
Sunday, January 31, 2010 9:28 AM
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Thousands of acres of Central Oregon land once occupied by the infamous Rajneeshpuram commune would be protected under legislation introduced Thursday by Oregon Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley. The Cathedral Rock and Horse Heaven Wilderness Act would preserve almos ...
Saturday, January 30, 2010 5:09 PM
LEWISTON, Idaho (AP) -- The Payette National Forest has released a set of proposed updates to its plan to keep domestic sheep from intermingling with wild bighorns, a species susceptible to pneumonia that can be passed along by their domestic cousins. Forest officials are taking public comme ...
Saturday, January 30, 2010 4:49 PM
GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) -- Officials with the Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Department say mule deer numbers are on the decline. Biologists say a decade or more of drought and winter-like storms that occurred last spring took a toll on mule deer fawns. The decline is cyclical, how ...
Saturday, January 30, 2010 9:29 AM
TWIN FALLS, Idaho (AP) -- Mountain Home rancher Steve Damele is the kind of cattleman who doesn't mince words when talking about threatened species on his land. But he only had one answer when asked if his property was habitat for the Greater sage grouse. "I'd rathe ...
Thursday, January 28, 2010 11:19 AM
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- The Utah House has passed a measure to let owners of wolf-damaged livestock in parts of Utah seek compensation. The House voted 69-1 on Tuesday to advance House Bill 32 to the Senate. Animals meeting the definition of livestock are sheep, cattle, goats and turkeys ...
Thursday, January 28, 2010 2:18 PM
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- New Mexico officials and wildlife groups are pressing the Legislature once again to eliminate a provision in state law that allows farmers and ranchers to kill wildlife on private land, unless the animals are predators that pose an immediate threat to humans, livestoc ...
Thursday, January 28, 2010 11:39 AM
Trevor Brazile has picked up right where he left off -- in the winner's circle. The seven-time world all around champion opened the 2010 season with a big bang by capturing the calf roping and all around titles at the conclusion of the National Western Stock Show and Rodeo in Denver Sunda ...
Wednesday, January 27, 2010 5:09 PM
SALEM -- Bob Trout of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service called it "the most complicated goose management issue in North America." Dave Williams, director of USDA Wildlife Services in Oregon, said the state's goose problem "is significantly more challenging than in any other state in the ...
Thursday, January 21, 2010 12:59 PM
DENVER (AP) -- Media mogul Ted Turner will be the keynote speaker at the annual National Bison Association conference in Denver. Turner owns more than 45,000 bison in 14 ranches in seven western states and has been an advocate for their restoration into the country's ecosystem. He is the co- ...
Saturday, January 23, 2010 7:49 AM
J.B. Mauney cashed in for more than $34,000 Saturday to win the Professional Bull Rider's Sacramento Classic. Mauney made his move in Sacramento by winning the second round aboard Holman Bucking Bulls' "Shotgun Willy" for 88.5 points. In the short round, Mauney teamed with the famed ...
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 4:49 PM
BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) -- The Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commission has approved the state's first-ever statewide plan for managing bighorn sheep. Officials say they hope the conservation plan will allow them to keep better tabs on bighorns and find new habitat for the animals. Some ...
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 10:08 AM
HAMILTON, Mont. (AP) -- State wildlife officials have denied a Bitterroot Valley couple's request to close part of Mitchell Slough to waterfowl hunting. John and Kathy Lewis argued the stream was too narrow and winding for hunting without the possibility of wasting game. They also ar ...
Sunday, January 17, 2010 9:09 AM
MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) -- State wildlife officials have killed seven bighorn sheep as they try to limit an outbreak of pneumonia in a herd in the mountains west of the Marshall Ski Area. Two ewes killed on Tuesday and three more killed on Wednesday all tested positive for pneumonia at ...
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