Archive for the ‘Hunting’ Category

USFWS Approves IL DNR Waterfowl Seasons

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) this week approved for publication in the Federal Register new rules allowing states to add a fourth duck hunting zone or to use three zones with split hunting seasons for the regular duck hunting season. This decision allows the Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) to proceed with [...]

Squirrel Season Is First Hunting Season Of The Fall

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The first hunting season of the fall opens in about two weeks. Kentucky

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Although the weather right now is scorching, squirrel hunting seasons open next month and archery deer season opens in September. The 2011-2012 Kentucky Hunting and Trapping Guide will be available next week wherever hunting licenses are sold. Hunters are strongly advised to get their free copy to keep up with season dates, bag limits and new hunting regulations. The American woodcock and September Canada goose seasons also changed for 2011, and the number of public dove fields expanded substantially over last year. The 2011-2012 Kentucky Hunting Guide for Dove, Wood Duck, Teal, Woodcock, Snipe and Crow will be available in early August.

The first fall hunting season in Kentucky opens in less than a month. Here are some highlights of what

Indiana DNR launches iPhone app

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People who enjoy any of the DNR’s wide variety of properties across Indiana and own an iPhone can benefit from a new phone application. The application can be downloaded at no cost to the user at http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/indiana-dnr/id395591679?mt=8.

Kentucky Sandhill Crane Season Being Considered

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The sandhill crane (Grus Canadensis) is a transient visitor to Kentucky whose numbers have increased dramatically since the 1970s. The eastern population is now conservatively estimated at about 60,000 birds. The Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources is considering a first-ever sandhill crane hunting season of the modern era with a harvest quota of [...]