Outdoor News Daily

The Colorado Wildlife Commission voted to adopt a season-year Small Game and Fishing license in place of the current calendar-year license at its regular July meeting in Durango Thursday. The action was taken in order to provide better customer service to license buyers.

The change in regulations will mean that all 2008 Small Game and Fishing calendar year licenses will be valid until March 31, 2009, and that subsequent small game and fishing licenses will be valid from April 1 to March 31 of the following year.

Other changes to small game regulations included extending the Walk-In-Access period to improve light goose hunting opportunity and allowing take of all furbearer species on either a furbearer license or small game license. The cost of the resident furbearer license was reduced to $20 and nonresident furbearer license was reduced to $55.
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The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) is holding a public workshop concerning the Ocklawaha Prairie Public Small Game Hunting Area and changes made to permitting regulations during the 2007-2008 hunting season. Anyone interested in this hunting area is encouraged to attend and provide input on July 1 from 6 to 8 p.m., at the FWC’s Northeast Region Office, 1239 SW 10th St., Ocala.

Specifically, the FWC wants public input on the hunting permit process for the area. The FWC strives to allocate fair hunting opportunities, and public input is important to achieving this goal.
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North Dakota’s spring crow season opens statewide March 15 and continues through April 27.

Shooting hours are 30 minutes before sunrise to sunset. There is no daily or possession limit on crows.

Hunters can use last fall’s 2007-08 small game and general game and habitat license, or combination license, or purchase a new 2008-09 combination license.

HOLDERNESS, N.H. - Learn about the exciting sport of snowshoe hare hunting at a free workshop being offered at the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department’s Owl Brook Hunter Education Center in Holderness, N.H. The workshop will take place from 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 8, 2008. Space is limited and pre-registration is required. To register, call the Owl Brook Hunter Education Center at (603) 536-3954.

At the workshop, Fish and Game Hunter Education instructors Edward Vien and Larry Williams, along with their longtime hare-hunting companion Roger Eastman, will introduce participants to one of New Hampshire’s finest small-game hunting experiences — hare hunting with beagles.
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As the deer and waterfowl seasons wind down, the DNREC Division of Fish and Wildlife would like to remind hunters about several new regulations that were passed after the 2007/08 Delaware Hunting and Trapping Guide was printed.

. Rabbit season has been extended to Friday, Feb. 15.

. Hunting gray squirrels with a .17 caliber rimfire rifle, a .22 caliber rimfire rifle or muzzle-loading rifle not larger than .36 caliber is now permitted south of the C&D Canal during the entire gray squirrel season.
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