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Preliminary results from the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem antler study show that with a new one week lead time locals may return to areas they haven’t shed hunted recently.
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Starting in 2006, the state of Montana granted permission to a couple of tribes to hunt on federal public lands near Yellowstone National Park. That was due to a treaty that was agreed upon in 1855 that included tribes from the Pacific Northwest. The Yakama nation was the first tribe from Washington state to join in on the hunt. As tribal members drew tags and traveled to Yellowstone in 2018 to exercise their rights to hunt buffalo on public land for the first time, Wyoming Public Radio's Kamila Kudelska joined in.
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Congress saves hunting, sport shooting and other safety training from potential federal funding cutsCongress has voted nearly unanimously to protect hunter, archery and sport shooting safety education in schools. Many lawmakers have been worried that these programs would lose federal funding due to recent legislation signed by President Biden.
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Tens of thousands of mule deer and pronghorn died in southwest Wyoming this past winter and spring, causing the Wyoming Game and Fish Department to drastically reduce the hunting season. But some hunters are taking it a step further.
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Fall means it’s hunting season for many residents in our region. One popular way to hunt and fish is to lease land from private property owners for a more one-of-a-kind experience, and technology is changing the way people find these opportunities.
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Some of the state’s big game hunting seasons kick-off in September, and the Wyoming Game and Fish Department (WGFD) is offering a forecast.
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The department is urging hunters to make this hunting season a safe one by offering some tips on firearm safety as well as how to deal with injuries sustained in the outdoors as well as hunting in bear territory.
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Last winter, Western Wyoming had one of the snowiest and coldest winters in decades, and it killed off some big game populations. So, one hunter is asking folks to turn in their hunting tags, in return they could win donated prizes.
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A new report from several groups advocates for federal officials to take into consideration the interests of hunters and anglers when proposing national monument designations. Doing so, the groups argue, will help build more robust coalitions for what they say is a critical conservation tool in a context of political polarization.
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After a historically harsh winter in southwest and south central Wyoming, the death toll to some wildlife is only now being fully revealed. Consequently, the Wyoming Game and Fish Department (WGFD) is further cutting pronghorn hunting tags by 75 percent in these areas.