Texas Aims to Increase Number of Female Hunters
from The Associated Press via the Houston Chronicle
 State officials are organizing all-female hunting groups in an effort to woo girls and reverse a national decline in hunting. About 15 percent of 2008 youth licenses, or 20,000, went to girls under 17. That's up 6,000 from 2003, when Texas Parks & Wildlife began tracking the information. More
Opinions Wanted on Antler Restrictions
from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Hunters and landowners in 20 North Texas counties are being asked to give their opinions on possible changes in whitetail buck harvest laws through antler restrictions beginning with the 2009-10 hunting season. More
“Never Let Them Tear Down Your Hunter’s Wall”
from NRA Hunters Rights
If you were not able to attend this year’s NRA Annual Meetings, you missed a powerful speech about hunting made by NRA First Vice President Ron Schmeits. He fires back at claims made by PETA and tells those in attendance to call them out on their lies so that "twenty, fifty, a hundred years from now this room may still be filled with hunters like you." More
Texas Leader in Hunting, Fishing Economic Impacts
from the Wichita Falls Times Record News
Recently, the Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation released a report entitled “Hunting and Fishing: Bright Stars of the American Economy.” The report shows that Texas leads the nation in terms of the total numbers of hunters and anglers, their spending, jobs supported, taxes generated, and the number of days spent hunting and fishing combined. More
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Hunters Have Chance to Weigh in on Dove Season Changes
from Austin American Statesman
The question is — and your Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is asking it — do we want to move a full week of the first split of the South Zone season from early November to the back of the second split in January? More
Congressmen Introduce Pro-Gun Bill in House
from the National Shooting Sports Foundation
U.S. Reps. Zack Space (D-Ohio) and Steve King (R-Iowa) have introduced the "Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Reform and Firearms Modernization Act of 2007" (HR 4900), legislation which represents a major advance in protecting the rights of firearms dealers, bringing consistency to ATF enforcement actions and providing ATF with additional compliance tools long sought by the bureau. More
Rayonier Adds Web Site for Searching Lands, Securing Hunting Agreements
from Yahoo! Finance
Rayonier, a leading international forest products company, announces the launch of a new Web site for recreational hunters, enabling online searching for hunting land tracts in five states: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Oklahoma and Texas. The Web site, www.rayonierhunting.com, offers simple map-driven searches to locate available hunting tracts on Rayonier land. Aerial photographs and topographic maps improve efficiency and speed in evaluating and selecting available tracts and help hunters identify likely habitat for their chosen game. More
Kentucky Bear Season is Proposed for 2009
from the Courier-Journal
The Kentucky Fish and Wildlife Commission has recommended establishing a bear-hunting season for next year. At its quarterly meeting Friday in Frankfort, the board also proposed a late-season antlerless elk hunt on private land. More
Extended Hunting Season Nearly Doubles Mass. Coyote Kill
from The Associated Press via the Boston Herald
Massachusetts hunters took advantage of an extended coyote hunting season, killing nearly twice as many as the year before. Thomas O’Shea of the state wildlife agency said the season was extended because of increasing enthusiasm for hunting the smart animal, and to control aggressive coyotes. More
Study Suggests Wisconsin Black Bears Far More Plentiful
from the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
Wisconsin black bears might be more numerous than previously thought. Preliminary data from a new two-year study indicates the bear population is much larger than current estimates, raising the possibility of expanding hunting quotas. More
Marthinus Puts Freeze on Rhino Horn Trading
from IOL
Some hunters have been abusing permits to shoot rhinos and export illegally obtained rhino horns - probably poached and directly linked to organized crime - as "hunting trophies". This was revealed by Environmental Affairs Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk last week when he announced a national moratorium on the trade in individual rhino horns. More
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