Press Releases - Monday,
January 31, - Friday, February 4, 2004
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Last Updated 2/4
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Fort
Niobrara National Wildlife Refuge Completes River Recreation Management Plan
Menominee Indian
Tribe Celebrates First Sturgeon Season in More than a Century
United States Celebrates
World Wetlands Day
Service Issues Call for
Proposals to Tribes for Grants to Conserve Fish and Wildlife on Tribal
Lands
Indiana Biologist
Receives National Award for Work on Grand Calumet River
Service Statement in
Response to U.S. District Court Decision on Wolf Reclassification
Student Art Contest
Deadline Approaching
National Parks Service
National Park Service
Employees Honored with Awards for Outstanding Service and Valor
Ducks Unlimited
New Education
Partnership Highlights World Wetlands Day
Rolex/International Game Fish Association
Teams from across the
globe lining up for prestigious Rolex/IGFA Offshore Championship
Tournament
Alabama
Family Fishing Areas
Reopen – Visit Alabama’s State Public Fishing Lakes
Forever Wild Board
to Meet February 9
Alaska
Subsistence Halibut
Fishery Mail Survey
Arizona
Arizona's only three wild condor chicks doing
well
Bald eagle workshop set for Flagstaff
Arkansas
Weekly Fishing Report
What’s Open For Hunting
AGFC working to resolve landowner
and deer dog hunting issue
AGFC licensing system
undergoes overhaul
AGFC gives Gurdon local
lake and new opportunities
Flood-damaged White River
fishing facility to be rebuilt
California
DFG Offers Full Slate of Clinics to Improve
Hunters’ Success in 2005
Colorado
DOW RESEARCHER
BEGINS MOUNTAIN LION STUDY
BIGHORN SHEEP RETURN
TO PARK RANGE
Delaware
ARMY CORPS, DNREC
FORMALLY KICK OFF REHOBOTH-DEWEY BEACHFILL PROJECT
Florida
FWC
CONCLUDES FEB. 2-4 MEETING IN PANAMA CITY BEACH
FWC AND
FISHERMEN WILL EXPLORE NET TECHNOLOGY TOGETHER
FWC PROPOSES
RULE TO MANAGE THE COMMERCIAL BLUE CRAB FISHERY
FWC MOVES TO
POLISH SPECIES LISTING PROCESS
FWC PROPOSES VESSEL LIMIT
FOR PERMIT AND POMPANO
FWC REMOVES MINIMUM
ACREAGE REQUIREMENT FOR FARMERS NEEDING TO CONTROL DEER
FREE HUNTER SAFETY
COURSES OFFERED
Georgia
Public
Meetings to be Held on Georgia Deer Management Plan
Mark Whitney
Selected as New Assistant Chief of WRD Game Management
Lt. Col. Homer
Bryson Selected as New Assistant Chief of Georgia DNR Law Enforcement
Place Your Bid Now!
Idaho
Ice-Fishing Derby A
Success
IDFG To Host Big Game
Recommendation Meetings In Mid-February
Ask Fish & Game
Tax Checkoff And Wildlife
Plates Support Programs
More Mountain Goat,
Bighorn Sheep Permits In 2005
Idaho Fish And Game
Researchers Honored
Fish And Game Works For
More Sage-Grouse
Fall Steelhead Anglers
Report Success
More Trout For The
Treasure Valley
Illinois
IDNR
ANNOUNCES OPENING OF CACHE RIVER VISITORS CENTER
ILLINOIS STATE
PARKS POPULAR SITE FOR WEDDINGS
Iowa
IOWA FISHING REPORT
Taxes and Wildlife
Kansas
FISHING INFORMATION NIGHT AT
FORT HAYS
HIGHWAY-BASED WILDLIFE TRAILS
OFFER NEW RESOURCE
WILDLIFE, FISHERIES, BIOLOGY MEETINGS SCHEDULED
GROUPS JOIN TO PROMOTE FISH ART CONTEST
Kentucky
Elk Hunting
to Expand to Public Hunting Areas in 2005
Licenses for Disabled
Hunters and Anglers
8 KDFWR Law Enforcement
Cadets Graduate DOCJT Basic Training
Johnson Leads KDFWR
Aquatic Education Efforts
Louisiana
AGENTS RESCUE INJURED
BOATER FROM FATAL BOAT CRASH
LOST HUNTER FOUND ON
RUSSELL SAGE WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT AREA
Maine
Warden
Service Colonel Reminds Snowmobilers to Ride Right, Ride Safe
Supplemental Feeding
of White-Tailed Deer During Winter
Maryland
Governor
Ehrlich Announces Purchase of Conservation Easement
Maryland Park Service
Advises Against Recreational Activity on Deep Creek Lake
Governor Ehrlich
Makes Good on Promise; Continues to secure additional Federal Funds for
Chesapeake Bay Restoration Efforts
Michigan
Weekly
Fishing Report
Gutierrez Named
Conservation Officer of the Year
Minnesota
Trout Brook Project
will Benefit Brook Trout
Coyotes Sightings No
Cause for Concern
DNR needs items to help
establish game warden museum at Camp Ripley
Minnesota Ski Pass
required to use grants-in-aid trails for cross-country skiing
North Shore forest
management plan comment period extended
Governor makes wetlands
high priority in DNR budget
Conservation Officers'
Tales - February 2005
Missouri
Regional
quail meetings set for April
Black Island
joins list of Missouri conservation areas
Agencies join
forces to aid imperiled pallid sturgeon
Nixa man's quail
obsession endures 67 seasons
NRA issues Youth Hunter
Education Challenge
Apply now for turkey
hunts at Caney Mountain CA
Montana
Nongame
Wildlife Programs Need Your Support
Getting To Know
Montana's Avalanche Center Experts
Trapper
Education Class Set In Missoula
FWP Is Seeking
Public Comment On Projects In And Near Spring Meadow Lake State Park
Becoming An
Outdoors-Woman Upland Game Bird Clinic
Wolverine Season To
Close In Wolverine Management Unit 3
Montana Fish, Wildlife
And Parks Commission To Meet Feb. 10 In Helena
Nebraska
ARTISTS: TIME IS
GETTING SHORT FOR HABITAT STAMP CONTEST ENTRIES
MANDATORY
BOATING EDUCATION CLASSES SET FOR 14-17 YEAR OLDS
MITCHELL MAN
RECEIVES PROBATION, FINES FOR KILLING BALD EAGLE
NEBRASKA POND
OWNERS REMINDED OF FISH STOCKING PROGRAM
NGPC, UNL TO
SPONSOR CONSERVATION EDUCATION SKILLS WORKSHOP
REMEMBER
WILDLIFE WHEN DOING YOUR STATE INCOME TAXES
SPRING TURKEY
PERMITS AVAILABLE FEBRUARY 14
New Jersey
DEP OYSTER REVITALIZATION PROJECT BRINGS WARMTH TO THE
DELAWARE BAY
Delaware Bayshore Birding
and Wildlife Trails Site Nominations Wanted
Nevada
Register Boats Now to Prepare for Summer
Hunters Should Go Online to Check Their Hunter Education
Records
New Mexico
Weekly Fishing Report
North Carolina
Private Stewardship Grants Offer Landowners A Way to Help
Rare Species
New Black Bear Documentary Available From Wildlife
Commission
North Dakota
Spring Turkey Season
Applications Available
Game and Fish Recommends a Feb. 19 Spring Light
Goose Opener
New State Record
Brown Trout Caught
Game and Fish Reports 2004 Bighorn Sheep, Moose and
Elk Harvests
Ohio
TRAINING
WORKSHOPS BEGIN IN MARCH FOR OHIO HUNTER EDUCATION INSTRUCTORS
A RECORD NUMBER OF
DEER TAKEN DURING OHIO’S 2004-2005 DEER HUNTING SEASON
OHIO HUNTING AND FISHING
LICENSES GO ON SALE FEBRUARY 15
Ohio’s Old-Growth
Habitats Protected
RECORD NUMBER OF
OHIOANS VOLUNTEERED IN OHIO STATE PARKS LAST YEAR
Oklahoma
Crawford receives national
conservationist of the year honor
Friends of the
NRA support youth programs
Wildlife
Heritage Center Museum in Antlers nears completion
Winter Bird
Survey forms due Feb. 9
Oregon
ODFW still
on track with wolf plan
Columbia River spring
chinook seasons set for sport anglers and commercial fishers
Pennsylvania
COMMISSION SEEKS
APPLICANTS FOR BOATING FACILITIES GRANT PROGRAM
GAME COMMISSION DELIVERS ANNUAL REPORT TO
HOUSE COMMITTEE
COMMISSION MOURNS
LOSS OF MEMBER
Rhode Island
DEM SAYS CONDITIONS
AT PULASKI STATE PARK IN GLOCESTER EXCELLENT FOR CROSS-COUNTRY SKIING
South Carolina
TWO MILLION RED DRUM STOCKED BY DNR IN STATE'S COASTAL
WATERS
HUNTING TRADITION CONTINUES AT WEBB WILDLIFE CENTER
FRESHWATER FISHING TRENDS
SALTWATER FISHING TRENDS:
S.C. WEEKLY TIDETABLE
South Dakota
Changes Await Spring
Turkey Applicants
CWD Update
Experience the Mickelson
Trail on the "Snowshoe Shuffle" Walk in the Park
Find GFP Officials And
Publications At February Sport Show
Remember Deadline For
Wildlife Seasonal And Executive Positions Near
America’s Great Backyard
Enjoy "Eagles and Bagels" at Oahe Downstream
Recreation Area
Texas
Golden Alga
Surfacing, TPWD Steps Up Monitoring Efforts
TPWD Seeks Public
Comment About Proposed Regulation Changes
TPWD Looking at Potential
Expansion of Buck Restrictions
Process in Place To
Suspend Coastal Fishing During Freeze
Redfish Bay Scientific
Area Extension Proposed
TPWD Game Warden Field Notes
TPWD Calendar
Stay Tuned
Utah
Shed antler
hunters must know the law
Fisheries
Experiment Station: not your typical fish hatchery
Reward
offered in elk poaching case
Ice fishing
clinic hooks new women
Weekly Statewide Fishing Report
Hunter safety
instructors needed in Northern Utah
Deer-vehicle
collisions — an on-going problem
Moose moved after
confrontation with girl
Vermont
2004 Was the Safest
Year Ever for Vermont's Hunters
FIRST SIGNS OF SUCCESS
FOR SEA LAMPREY CONTROL
Washington
Meeting set on salmon-fishing
plan for Grays Harbor
Canadian Seafood Company Sued
for Geoduck Theft
Application deadline is Feb. 28 for central Washington
upland game bird habitat funds
Sport spring chinook seasons set for Columbia River
West Virginia
West Virginia's
Mid-winter Waterfowl Survey Completed
Wisconsin
Deer population
status meetings schedule around state
193,000 permits issued
for 2005 spring turkey season
Free Turkey Hunter
Education Clinics Offered Statewide
Anglers’ investments make
for great Wisconsin fishing
Wyoming
PAYMENTS INCREASED
FOR WALK-IN AND HUNTER MGT AREAS; SIGN UP THROUGH MAY 1
LANDER’S BOB TREBELCOCK
AWARDED AS “WILDLIFE OFFICER OF THE YEAR
RUSS POLLARD RETIRES FROM
G&F TO SERVE AIR GUARD FULL TIME
G&F Calendar
ASK THE GAME & FISH
OLDS
(NE)
On
March 15, anglers young and old will be treated to a free seminar
on their favorite outdoor sport. Sponsored by the KDWP, Fort Hays State University (FHSU),
and the Hays Recreation Commission, the event will feature experts on
fishing, fisheries management, and fish biology. The event will be
held from 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. in the Black and Gold Room of the FHSU
Memorial Union in Hays....
Family
Fishing Areas Reopen – Visit Alabama’s State Public Fishing Lakes
(AL)
Ice Fishing Reminders
(MT)
WRD Proposes Stocking Striped Bass in Altamaha River Basin Lakes
(GA)
A new project within the
fisheries division of the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources
(KDFWR) will identify the best smallmouth bass streams in Kentucky for
anglers to enjoy. "A few years ago we put together our available data on streams concerning
smallmouth bass, rock bass and largemouth bass populations," said Gerry
Buynak,...
Meeting Set About Managing Private Impoundments for Better Fishing
(TX)
Florida
Sport Fishing Report - Post Hurricane's
2004