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2022 moose hunt lottery now open

2022 moose hunt lottery now open

By New Hampshire Fish and Game Department

New Hampshire’s 2022 moose hunt lottery is now open. Hunters can enter the lottery online or print out a mail-in application. Applications are also available at any Fish and Game license agent, at Fish and Game Department headquarters or regional offices. The lottery entrance fee is $15 for Granite State residents and $25 for nonresidents. Mo... READ MORE

Winter turkey harvest 24% lower for 2022

Winter turkey harvest 24% lower for 2022

By Maryland Department of Natural Resources

Hunters reported taking 67 wild turkeys during the 2022 winter turkey season, which was open statewide Jan. 20-22. This year’s harvest was 24% lower than the 2021 winter total of 89 turkeys. St. Mary’s, Baltimore, and Caroline counties reported the highest harvests respectively, although turkeys were reported from most counties across t... READ MORE

Primitive deer hunt runs Feb. 1-3

Primitive deer hunt runs Feb. 1-3

By Maryland Department of Natural Resources

A final opportunity of the 2021-22 deer season, the Primitive Deer Hunt, runs Feb. 1-3 statewide for hunters with a valid hunting license as well as those exempt from the hunting license requirement. Primitive bows or muzzleloaders can be used to hunt sika and white-tailed deer. Primitive hunting devices are defined as long bows, recurve bows,... READ MORE

Park perseveres to bag Big Gee's Bend buck

Park perseveres to bag Big Gee's Bend buck

By David Rainer/Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources

Photo: Chris Park had to make a 215-yard shot from a kneeling position to bag this big buck. Anyone who has been hunting deer in Alabama for a while has surely heard of Gee’s Bend, a large plot of land in a horseshoe bend of the Alabama River in Wilcox County. In the mid to late 20th century, the 6,600-acre property smack dab in the middle of... READ MORE

Wild turkey license number increased for spring turkey season

Wild turkey license number increased for spring turkey season

By North Dakota Game and Fish Department

The Game and Fish Department is offering 7,647 wild turkey licenses for the 2022 spring hunting season, 635 more than last year. Ten of the 22 hunting units have more spring licenses than last year, one has fewer licenses and 10 remain the same. Unit 21 (Hettinger and Adams counties) is again closed due to lack of turkeys in the unit. One notewort... READ MORE

New Adirondack moose research project underway

New Adirondack moose research project underway

By New York State Department of Environmental Conservation

A new moose research project is in progress in the Adirondack region. This winter, 14 moose were fitted with GPS collars as part of a multi-year project assessing moose health and population. Data collected from the collars will guide research on moose population, health, mortality and dispersal. To safely capture, collar and monitor these animals,... READ MORE

Turkey lottery applications now available

Turkey lottery applications now available

By South Carolina Department of Natural Resources

Applications for turkey lottery hunts on public lands are available now through March 1 at 5 p.m. A nonrefundable fee of $5 is required of all applicants for the Multi-site Turkey Lottery Hunt, and $5 for the youth applicant on the Youth Multi-site Turkey Hunt. After the selection process occurs, only the primary applicant will receive email notif... READ MORE

Annual monitoring effort finds 36 deer with CWD

Annual monitoring effort finds 36 deer with CWD

By Iowa Department of Natural Resources

Samples from nearly 5,000 deer have been tested as part of the Department of Natural Resources effort to monitor for chronic wasting disease, resulting in 36 confirmed positives from the 2021-2022 hunting season. The samples were collected over the past 10 months from willing hunters and taxidermists, as well as from deer killed along Iowa’s ... READ MORE

Final deer harvest season reports 293,670 deer harvested

Final deer harvest season reports 293,670 deer harvested

By Missouri Department of Conservation

Missouri's 2021-2022 deer-hunting season ended Jan. 15 with a preliminary total deer harvest for the season of 293,670. Of the deer harvested, 143,049 were antlered bucks, 26,599 were button bucks, and 124,022 were does. Top harvest counties for the overall deer season were Franklin with 6,392 deer harvested, Texas with 5,478, and Callaway with 5,4... READ MORE

Hunters check 12,141 deer during muzzleloader season

Hunters check 12,141 deer during muzzleloader season

By Ohio, deer, muzzleloader, season

Hunters completed the 2022 muzzleloader season with 12,141 deer checked from Jan. 8 to Tuesday, Jan. 11. Over the past three years, an average of 11,501 deer were taken with a muzzleloader during the same four-day period. Top 10 counties for deer harvested during the 2022 muzzleloader season include Coshocton (467), Tuscarawas (455), Guernsey (386)... READ MORE

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