The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) is accepting bids now through May 20 for alligator hunting on certain Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs), Wetland Conservation Areas (WCAs), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Properties and state wildlife refuges for […]
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In a major step to expand recreational access to America’s public lands, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum announced 42 new proposed hunting opportunities across more than 87,000 acres within the National Wildlife Refuge System and National Fish Hatchery
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A hunter recently shared his experience of booking a Watusi cattle hunt. That might not sound like a very interesting type of hunting for most, but there is an interesting element. He had long desired a Watusi European skull mount,
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The America the Beautiful Act introduced by Sens. Steve Daines (R-Mont.) and Angus King (I-Maine) on May 1 would reauthorize the Legacy Restoration Fund to invest $2 billion over the next eight years in critical infrastructure for the U.S. Fish
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Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) Enforcement agents cited 13 people for alleged turkey hunting violations during the opening weekend of the 2025 turkey hunting season. Turkey season opened statewide on April 5. On April 5, agents cited: Preston
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Pheasants Forever (PF) and Quail Forever (QF) congratulate the appointees to several key leadership positions in the Farm Production and Conservation (FPAC) mission area by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). These positions will help drive key support mechanisms
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Even though most of the continent’s ducks won’t start laying eggs until April or May, Delta Waterfowl’s Hen House contractors are working throughout the winter to ensure mallards have more safe nest sites this spring. Delta plans to add 2,100
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Hand-carved decoys and their makers are an important part of Delta Waterfowl’s history, with strong connections to the Ducharme and Ward families in Manitoba. To honor and celebrate decoy-making traditions across the continent, Delta is sponsoring “Carver’s Corner” at the
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The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation supplied funding to help a collaborative partnership conserve 406 acres of habitat for elk, whitetail deer, wild turkey, grouse and other wildlife in western North Carolina. The White Oak Mountain acreage was under threat of
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As the prairie pothole region’s breeding grounds thaw, Delta Waterfowl’s Predator Management trappers have begun work to increase duck production and boost the hatch in the PPR, an area known as “The Duck Factory” because of its importance to continental duck populations.
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The Voluntary Public Access Improvement Act was reintroduced to the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. Representatives Debbie Dingell (D-MI) and Dusty Johnson (R-SD) are leading the reintroduction in the House, while Senators Steve Daines (R-MT), Michael Bennet
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Turkey hunters can expect to see an abundance of two-year-old gobblers and jakes setting the stage for an increase in male harvest in 2025. Most of Texas experienced a bump in production and recruitment in 2023 and 2024, meaning hunters
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A recent investigation by Texas Game Wardens resulted in approximately 1,200 pending charges and 22 suspects from across the state involved in the deer breeding industry and black-market (illegal) wildlife trade. The suspects and charges are associated with three deer breeding facilities, ten
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Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) is accepting public comment until March 27 for the following proposed changes to the 2025-26 Statewide Hunting and Migratory Game Bird proclamations: Migratory Game Bird Regulations Increase the daily bag limit of pintails from
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Home Security Solutions: Traditional Safes vs. Gun Concealment Furniture If you own firearms, keeping them secure is a top priority. But that brings up an age-old debate: is it better to keep your guns stored as safely as possible in
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The Mule Deer Foundation (MDF) has dedicated thousands of man-hours, funding, and conservation work to Columbia blacktail deer and Sitka blacktail deer, and today it announced significant strides in expanding its conservation work for the subspecies. In 2022, MDF
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Texas Game Wardens arrested a local hunting outfitter and two others for illegally guiding nilgai hunts on private property. The suspects used airboats and thermal optics to take clients on hunts for the exotic animals, operating a sophisticated scheme and profiting from illegal
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The latest episode of Higher Calling Wildlife® dives deep into the remarkable efforts to restore desert bighorn sheep to the Franklin Mountains, where these iconic creatures had been absent for over a century. We sit down with Kevin Hurley of
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The recently concluded Louisiana black bear hunting season, administered by the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF), produced an impressive harvest by 10 hunters in northeast Louisiana. For two of those hunters, Fisher Brown and Perry Pitre Jr., it
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Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) and Texas Animal Health Commission (TAHC) received confirmation of one case of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in deer in a Brown County high fence ranch, marking the first confirmed detection in the county. A
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