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High court rules Maine's ban on Sunday hunting is constitutional

Mar. 28, 2024 15:04 PM EDT

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine's highest court has ruled that the state's longstanding ban on Sunday hunting is constitutional. The court considered a lawsuit that asked whether the ban on hunting game animals such as deer, turkey and moose on Sundays was still necessary. Maine is...

Nevada's first big-game moose hunt will be tiny as unusual southern expansion defies climate change

Mar. 24, 2024 00:06 AM EDT

RENO, Nev. (AP) — In what will be a tiny big-game hunt for some of the largest animals in North America, Nevada is planning its first-ever moose hunting season this fall. Wildlife managers say explosive growth in Nevada moose numbers over the past five years, increasing to a...

Orchard expansion in Canada's wine country stirs fears a key wildlife corridor will be harmed

Mar. 07, 2024 13:34 PM EST

KELOWNA, British Columbia (AP) — Just below the fog line hanging over the central Okanagan Valley, rows of saplings for a cherry orchard expansion span the eastern stretch above Highway 33 on the outskirts of Kelowna in Canada's wine country. New cherry varieties and climate change...

Iditarod issues time penalty to Seavey for not properly gutting moose that he killed on the trail

Mar. 06, 2024 20:10 PM EST

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Iditarod officials on Wednesday imposed a two-hour time penalty on musher Dallas Seavey for not properly gutting the moose he killed during the race earlier this week. Race marshal Warren Palfrey convened a three-person panel of race officials to...

5-time Iditarod champion Dallas Seavey kills and guts a moose that got entangled with his dog team

Mar. 04, 2024 19:56 PM EST

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A veteran musher had to kill a moose after it injured his dog shortly after the start of this year’s Iditarod, race officials said Monday. Dallas Seavey informed the officials with the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race early Monday morning that he was forced...

Tennessee man gets jail for using a spotlight to poach deer and threatening a landowner

Mar. 01, 2024 15:49 PM EST

ROGERSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee man was sentenced to jail and barred for life from hunting in the state after he illegally killed 15 deer over more than three years and threatened a landowner with a gun while poaching deer on his property, wildlife officials said. The man...

Man who uses drones to help hunters recover deer carcasses will appeal verdict he violated laws

Feb. 23, 2024 16:21 PM EST

LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania man who uses drones to try to locate wounded deer shot by hunters so they can retrieve their carcasses has been convicted of violating state hunting laws. Joshua Wingenroth, 35, of Downingtown, plans to appeal the verdicts handed down Thursday...

Assembly OKs bill to suspend doe hunting in northern Wisconsin in attempt to regrow herd

Feb. 22, 2024 17:52 PM EST

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Hunters in northern Wisconsin would be barred from killing any does for four years under legislation the state Assembly approved Thursday. The Republican-authored measure is designed to help the northern herd replenish itself after an anemic nine-day gun hunt...

Cambodia to install hundreds of wildlife cameras in an effort to restore its tiger population

Feb. 16, 2024 08:01 AM EST

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia will begin installing hundreds of monitoring cameras and import four tigers from India as part of a plan to restore its tiger population, officials said Friday. Tigers were declared “functionally extinct” in Cambodia in 2016 by the World...

Guns and ammunition tax holiday supported by Georgia Senate

Feb. 06, 2024 14:40 PM EST

ATLANTA (AP) — A majority of Georgia’s senators want to let people buy guns, ammunition and gun safes without paying sales tax for five days each fall, while some House members are considering a narrower tax break for only gun safety devices. Republicans favor both approaches,...