10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2015

The latest press release from the USFWS. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dan Ashe today announced as part of Great Outdoors Month the agency is proposing to expand fishing and hunting opportunities on 21 refuges throughout the National Wildlife Refuge System. Hunting, within specified limits, is permitted on 335 wildlife refuges.

Fish 144

Fish Wildlife Hunting Game 144

Critter News

MAY 18, 2009

From the Associated Press: Blue whales are returning to Alaska in search of food and could be re-establishing an old migration route several decades after they were nearly wiped out by commercial whalers, scientists say. The hunting peaked in 1931 with more than 29,000 animals killed in one season.

Whales 100

Whales Whaling Marine Life Alaska 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

What could motivate gunmen (I cannot call them hunters) in two states to deliberately kill North America’s tallest and most critically endangered bird? It may be as sick as deliberately targeting an endangered species for death. More states will doubtless join the queue of those proposing hunts.

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2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 243