Hunting Articles

Shooting Area Access to be Restricted during Improvement Project
by BLM, MAY 12, 2017

Public access to shooting areas along Iron Mountain Road west of Redding will be restricted from May 16 through May 26, while the Bureau of Land Management completes a project to control storm water drainage. There will be no restrictions from Saturday to Sunday, May 20 to 21. Officials at the Bureau of Land Management Redding Field Office said restrictions are...
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Turkey Hunting in Old Mexico
Ramblings
by John Higley, MAY 7, 2017

Last winter I couldn’t imagine where I would end up hunting wild turkeys this spring, other than here in northern California. Then, in February, my vision was expanded by an offer to hunt in Florida for Osceola turkeys, a wild turkey subspecies that I never hunted for in the past. I did that, and told you about the experience a...
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Drones deployed the first time in Oregon elk surveys
by ODFW, MAY 5, 2017

From their vantage point high atop the Oregon Coast Range, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife biologist Herman Biederbeck and two researchers from Oregon State University can see almost forever as the first rays of sunlight peek over the top of Saddle Mountain in the distance to the east. Below is the Young’s River basin and a patchwork of thousands of...
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Nevada Dream Tags Offers Sportsmen another Chance
by NDOW, MAY 2, 2017

The big game tag application deadline may have come and gone, but you still have a chance at the hunt of a lifetime. For only $5 per raffle ticket, the Nevada Dream Tag gives sportsmen the shot at winning one of five premier big game tags (elk, California bighorn sheep, desert bighorn sheep, antelope and mule deer). The tags are similar to other...
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Apply for a fall controlled hunt by Monday, May 15
by ODFW, MAY 2, 2017

Fall may be months away but it’s time to start planning your big game hunt. Don’t forget to apply for a controlled hunt by Monday, May 15 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Apply online, at a license sales agent or ODFW office that sells licenses, or by mail/fax order. The cost is $8 per application and hunters need a 2017 annual hunting license to apply. Last year,...
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Mountain Lion DNA Found Inside Pescadero Home
by CDFW, APRIL 24, 2017

A trace of mountain lion DNA was identified in a blood sample taken from inside a home in Pescadero, confirming reports that a mountain lion entered an occupied home and took a dog off the bed where the homeowner was sleeping. On Monday, Apr. 17, 2017, a Pescadero homeowner called 911 at 3 a.m. to report an animal had entered her...
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