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House passes America’s Conservation Enhancement Act By Laura Bies, The Wildlife Society Posted on October 8, 2020  The America’s Conservation Enhancement Act, passed by Congress last week, increases the authorization level to $60 million annually for the North American Wetlands Conservation … Continue reading

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US wildlife officials aim to remove wolf protections in 2020

FILE – This June 29, 2017, file remote camera image provided by the U.S. Forest Service shows a female gray wolf and two of the three pups born in 2017 in the wilds of Lassen National Forest in Northern California. … Continue reading

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Hunting helps suppress chronic wasting disease in Colorado mule deer herds

Rebecca Ferrell Public Information and Website Manager 720-595-1449 / rebecca.ferrell@state.co.us  August 19, 2020  A Colorado Parks and Wildlife study published in the Journal of Wildlife Diseases indicates sufficient hunting pressure may be the key to controlling chronic wasting disease in mule … Continue reading

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Judge restores migratory bird protections

Pamela King and Michael Doyle, E&E News reportersPublished: Wednesday, August 12, 2020 J. Kelly/Fish and Wildlife Service/Flickr A federal court has struck down the Trump administration’s revisions to migratory bird regulations. J. Kelly/Fish and Wildlife Service/Flickr The Trump administration’s controversial … Continue reading

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Group sues to restart Wisconsin DNR hunter education courses

 By TODD RICHMONDJune 17, 2020 MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Kansas-based hunting advocacy group filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking to force the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources to restart in-person hunter education courses. Wisconsin law requires anyone born after Jan. … Continue reading

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