The National Wildlife Refuge System is one of the biggest government programs for hunters, with all of them doing great work in preserving wildlife, and many of them giving access to hunters. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has rolled out this year’s new regulations, and included in those regulations are expanding hunting in 16 [...]
Big Game Hunting in Idaho
TRCP’s Western Outreach Director Neil Thagard with Early Antelope Success
The TRCP’s Western Outreach Director Neil Thagard shared a photo from a recent hunting trip in Wyoming. He had a great weekend chasing antelope with his bow on public land near Cody, Wyoming! Neil is not only a conservationist but an avid bowhunter. He has taken, under fair chase conditions, ½ of North America’s big [...]
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Boone & Crockett Bucks up 400 Percent in 30 Years, Organization Ranks Big Buck States
Quality deer management has taken it's toll, and whitetail hunters are reaping its benefits.According to the Boone & Crockett Club, the number of bucks qualifying for their books increased 400 percent over the course of 30 years. The conservation group is perhaps the most respected record-keeping organization of all big game animals, and for your [...]
Hunters, Anglers Score Major Victory for Western Wildnerness
Some areas of our country need to remain wild, and the U.S. Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed that this past week. In 2001, there was a national roadless ruling concerning 49 million acres of public land controlled by the U.S. Department of Agriculture where road building was strictly governed and limited. The court upheld the [...]
Alaskan Fishing Guide Busted for Poaching in Montana
Michael P. Duby, an Alaskan fishing guide, apparently thought that the hunting regulations in Montana didn't apply to him. From 2004 to 2009, he allegedly killed and harvested a number of big game species with apparent disregard for the law. But, his indiscretion caught up with him, and this week a judge in Montana's Gallatin County [...]
Bighorn Tag Auction Raises Research Funds for Idaho
Big game tags are a very popular fundraiser, and in the past 10 years, the Idaho Department Fish and Game has been getting in on the action too.Since 1992, IDFG has raffled off a bighorn sheep tag. One hunter wins the lottery, but it has raised more than $750,000 in the past 10 years, with [...]
Idaho Begins Gray Wolf Battle
Since being delisted from the Endangered Species List earlier this year, Idaho residents have wasted no time in managing their gray wolf herd. Including some great anti-gray wolf propaganda, reports NPR. The Idaho Fish and Game has already sent helicopters to areas to shoot wolves that are killing off too many elk. For years, gray wolves have been [...]
Best of GoHUNTn–June 15
There are a lot of awesome posts on GoHUNTn throughout the week. Here are 10 of our most popular GoFISHn updates from the past week: Top Posts on GoHUNTn Photos of the Connecticut Mountain Lion – A very rare find in the Nutmeg State 350-Class Elk Hunt Captured on Video – Is this really a 350-inch elk? [...]
Record Amounts of Big Game Die this Winter in Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming
It's been a rough winter in the northern Rockies, and the snow and cold have had devastating effects on the wildlife populations, especially the deer, moose, antelope and elk in Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming. Wildlife officers are estimating that tens of thousands of big game animals are not going to make it over the next [...]
The Very Real Problem With Wolves and the Endangered Species List
In the late 1990s, all sides agreed to place an experimental population of endangered wolves in Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming. They put 10 packs of 10 wolves (100 wolves) in these three states. That population is now more than five times that size, and they are killing elk and other big game animals. This has [...]
