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The Board of Utah State Parks and Recreation may adopt a rule that would extend the annual Antelope Island State Park hunt for mule deer (seen here last year) and bighorn sheep through 2017. (Standard-Examiner file photo)

Board wants to extend island hunt, implement annual reviews

Last updated Monday, May 14, 2012 - 2:42pm

SALT LAKE CITY — In gaining a voice and control over the Antelope Island hunts beginning in 2013, the Board of Utah State Parks and Recreation is considering adopting a rule to extend the annual island hunt for mule deer and bighorn sheep through 2017.

By extending the hunt an additional five years, the board is hoping to be able to implement some of its own rules, including an annual review of the hunt by the public, wildlife biologists and Davis County officials.

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Migratory birds visit Great Salt Lake near Antelope Island in December 2008. An advisory in 2005 restricted consumption of three types of duck: Northern shovelers, common goldeneyes and cinnamon teal. The advisory said, because of dangerous mercury levels, healthy adults shouldn’t eat more than one 8-ounce serving of those three per month, and pregnant women and children shouldn’t eat them at all. (Standard-Examiner file photo)

Mercury heats up forum on Great Salt Lake

Charles F. Trentelman Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, May 9, 2012 - 9:51pm

SALT LAKE CITY — Every state has so much mercury in its water that it’s dangerous to eat many of the fish caught in its lakes and streams — and Utah’s Great Salt Lake is no exception.

There are no fish in the lake, but mercury contamination travels through sediment and microscopic organisms into brine flies and brine shrimp. Ducks that live on the lake and eat those shrimp and flies end up being dangerous to eat.

All this and more was discussed Wednesday at this year’s Great Salt Lake Issues Forum, held every two years by Friends of Great Salt Lake, a nonprofit advocacy agency.

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Learn to shoot for free

Standard-Examiner staff Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, May 2, 2012 - 2:46pm

Two public shooting ranges in Northern Utah will offer free archery and firearm shooting this weekend and next.

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Learn To Hunt program provides mentors for first-time hunters

Paul A. Smith Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Last updated Friday, April 20, 2012 - 3:13pm

OREGON, Wis. -- "Garrr-obble-oble-oble-oble-oble!"

The oak and pine woods reverberated with the call of the wild turkey. Matt Dannenberg's eyes widened.

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Florida hunters use helicopters to target nuisance wild pigs on Florida ranch

Susan Cocking The Miami Herald

Last updated Saturday, March 31, 2012 - 5:00pm

OKEECHOBEE, Fla. -- The helicopter hovered low over a thicket of cabbage palms, its rotor whop-whop-whopping, rattling the fronds and flattening the grass as two men sitting in the passenger seats fore and aft pointed shotguns out the open side.

Suddenly, a wild hog darted out of the brush and began to run across the pasture. One of the hunters aimed and pulled the trigger, knocking the animal down with a load of buckshot. The chopper rose and continued west across the 5,000-acre ranch, seeking more targets.

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Idaho hikes hunting bag limits on wolves

Eric Baker Lewiston Tribune

Last updated Friday, March 23, 2012 - 12:44pm

BOISE, Idaho -- The Idaho Fish and Game Commission raised the bag limit on wolves and set spring chinook fishing seasons at its meeting in Boise Thursday.

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Proposal would raise Idaho wolf kill rate

Eric Baker Lewiston Tribune

Last updated Wednesday, March 21, 2012 - 7:00am

BOISE, Idaho -- The Idaho Fish and Game Commission will consider a dramatic increase to the wolf hunting and trapping bag limits for the Clearwater and Panhandle regions of Idaho during its meeting in Boise Thursday.

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FILE - This undated image provided by the US Fish and Wildlife Service shows a gray wolf resting in tall grass. After Montana's wolf hunt failed to reduce the number of predators in the state, some groups and individuals are considering the added incentive of paying bounties for each carcass returned. (AP Photo/US Fish & Wildlife/FILE)

Court upholds Congress act that ended wolf protections

Bettina Boxall Los Angeles Times

Last updated Thursday, March 15, 2012 - 10:51am

A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that Congress acted legally when it eliminated Endangered Species Act protections for the Northern Rocky Mountain population of gray wolves and opened the door to wolf hunts.

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Hunters track big game bills through Idaho Legislature

Eric Barker Lewiston Tribune

Last updated Saturday, March 10, 2012 - 9:14am

BOISE, Idaho -- Hunters concerned that game animals may be evolving from a public resource to a private commodity are nervously watching a pair of bills in the Idaho Legislature.

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Daniel Richards, president of the California Fish and Game Commission and a co-managing partner of scandal-plagued, local development company Colonies Partners LP, has found himself in the political line of fire, after a photo surfaced showing him holding a dead mountain lion he killed in what appeared to be a recent big game hunt. (Courtesy photo)

Calif. game official killed, ate cougar in Idaho

Marisa Lagos San Francisco Chronicle

Last updated Wednesday, February 29, 2012 - 2:59pm

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- California Fish and Game Commission President Daniel Richards says that there is "zero chance" he will resign over a photograph showing him grinning as he holds up the body of a mountain lion he shot, killed and ate in Idaho, where, unlike California, it is legal to hunt the big cats.

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Mule deer buck on South Book Cliffs of eastern Utah by Brent Stettler, Utah Division of Wildlife Resources on 12-6-08.

Big-game hunting permit deadline nears

Standard-Examiner staff Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, February 22, 2012 - 3:57pm

It's already that time again -- time to enter Utah's big-game hunting lottery before a rapidly approaching deadline.

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Duck hunting stamps could go up to buy more land for waterfowl

Rob Hotakainen McClatchy Newspapers

Last updated Wednesday, February 15, 2012 - 9:06pm

WASHINGTON -- It's cost $15 to shoot a duck since 1991, but that will change if President Barack Obama gets his way. Under the president's new budget proposal, the cost of the federal duck stamp required for hunting would rise to $25 next year, a move aimed at making it easier for the Interior Department to buy more land for migratory waterfowl.

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Alaska to increase aerial gunning of bears

Kim Murphy Los Angeles Times

Last updated Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - 11:12am

In a new package of policies criticized even by some hunters, the Alaska Board of Game on Tuesday opened the door to aerial gunning of bears by state wildlife officials. It also debated a measure that would allow more widespread snaring of bears -- including grizzlies, which are officially considered threatened across most of the U.S.

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Wyoming bill would allow baiting of deer, other big game

Ben Neary The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, January 13, 2012 - 5:16pm

CHEYENNE, Wyo. -- The Wyoming Game and Fish Department is pushing to change state law to allow baiting of big game animals, a tactic it says could allow hunters to lure nuisance whitetail deer away from towns to spots where it would be safe to shoot them.

The Legislature's Joint Travel, Recreation, Wildlife and Cultural Resources Committee is sponsoring a bill in the legislative session that starts next month at the request of the game department.

In addition to giving the state Game Commission authority to bait wildlife, the proposed bill would simplify state law in regard to what specific weapons are allowed for hunting particular game animals.

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