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Entries for 2020
More Closures
By Buckmasters Online
For current information on your state DNR response to the COVID-19 pandemic, check your state DNR website, DNR social media channels, DNR Information Center and email updates. Click here for a link to your state website. Alabama In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (ADCNR) has made chan... READ MORE
States announce facility, event closures
By Buckmasters Online
Several states have announced immediate closures of their conservation or natural resources facilities or events. For more information, check with your state DNR office. Michigan The Michigan Department of Natural Resources has closed several of its state-managed facilities to prevent the spread of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19).The following... READ MORE
WNS confirmed in a Texas bat
By Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
For the first time, biologists have confirmed white-nose syndrome (WNS) in a Texas bat. While the fungus that causes the disease was previously detected in Texas in 2017, there were no signs of the disease it can cause. WNS has killed millions of hibernating bats in the eastern parts of the United States, raising national concern. It is a fungal d... READ MORE
New clarity on refuge wetland easements, maps and appeals process
By U.S. Department of the Interior
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has issued new internal guidance to provide better government services and alleviate conflict with landowners stemming from easement deeds that pre-date 1976. The actions by the Service to improve its easement processes started in October 2019 when Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt and North Dakota Senato... READ MORE
New website highlights real-time wildlife migration
By Utah Division of Wildlife Resources
Utah is doing something that only a few other states are doing: real-time tracking of wildlife. As of March e, some of that data will be available to the public via a new website. In 2017 the Division of Wildlife Resources started its Wildlife Migration Initiative program to better track and study the migration patterns of different wildlife and fi... READ MORE
Early youth and mobility impaired turkey hunt March 14-15
By Georgia Department of Natural Resources
Youth and mobility-impaired hunters utilizing private land have an early chance to harvest a turkey during the special opportunity turkey season on March 14-15, while the statewide turkey hunting season opens March 21. The weekend hunt opportunity is available only for youth 16 years of age and younger, or hunters who are mobility impaired (confine... READ MORE
Moose permit lottery now open, online only
By Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife
The 2020 Maine moose permit lottery application process is open and applications will be accepted online only. The deadline to apply for the lottery is 11:59 p.m. on May 14. The online application process is simple and applicants will receive instant confirmation after successfully entering the lottery. During the online application, hunters will ... READ MORE
Game-Changer
By Bryan Zabitski, Marketing Coordinator, TenPoint Crossbow Technologies
TenPoint’s ACUslide Safe Cocking and De-Cocking System: This Changes EVERYTHING! Photo: TenPoint’s ACUslide is the world’s first SAFE and SILENT cocking and de-cocking system. For more than 25 years, TenPoint Crossbow Technologies has kept one goal in its crosshairs: to design and build the safest, most reliable and most innovativ... READ MORE
CWD found in deer breeding facility
By Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) has been discovered in a 5 1/2-year-old white-tailed deer in a Kimble County deer breeding facility, marking the first positive detection of the disease in the county. The tissue samples submitted by the breeding facility as part of routine deer mortality surveillance revealed the presence of CWD during testing at the ... READ MORE
WMA turkey hunt permits now available online
By Arkansas Game and Fish Commission
Hunters who didn’t draw a wildlife management area turkey hunt permit during the regular drawing can still get a spot to hunt some of Arkansas’s most popular WMAs. All leftover permits became available as of Feb. 28 on a first-come, first-served online sale online. The only WMA turkey hunting permits left for sale are for hunts where ... READ MORE