Idaho Spending $650K to Feed Big Game Animals This Winter
Cold temperatures paired with heavy snowfall has plagued animals in the western United States this winter, causing state wildlife agencies and conservation groups to take matters into their own hands to ensure the survival of our treasured wildlife. Officials in Colorado have been baiting deer and elk at strategic locations to keep animals away […]
Idaho Moose Ends Up in Residential Basement
As deep snow continues to move wildlife closer to residential areas in Idaho this winter, humans, and wildlife are once again intersecting. After toxic, residential shrubs were to blame for the death of 50 pronghorn and eight elk this month, another large mammal has gotten a little too close for comfort. On Saturday night, […]
Familiar Toxic Shrub to Blame for 50 Dead Pronghorn in Idaho
Hot on the heels of news surrounding the death of eight elk just a couple of weeks ago, The Idaho Department of Fish and Game has reported that the very same cause of death is to blame for a herd of 50 pronghorn antelope. That cause is a toxic shrub known as Japanese Yew, […]
Idaho Fish & Game Proposes Price Increase, Incentives for Annual Hunters
Idaho Fish and Game Director Virgil Moore announced a proposed fee increase on hunting licenses earlier in the week. With rising operational costs, officials are concerned that without a price increase, the management of Idaho’s wildlife resources could be at risk. The proposed increase on resident licenses, tags and permits is expected to be in […]
USFWS Reopens Comment Period on Delisting Yellowstone Grizzlies
Published in March of this year, officials proposed the delisting of grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and have since reinstated an extended comment period about the proposal. Now occupying more than 22,500 square miles of the Yellowstone Ecosystem, the grizzly bear population has rebounded in great numbers. In 1975, estimates pegged the […]
Hacker Hits Fish & Game Databases in Four States
Hunting and fishing license holders in Idaho, Oregon, Washington and Kentucky were put on notice regarding a computer hack that halted online license sales in the four states earlier in the week. A hacker, referring to himself as Mr. High, boasted of accessing the personal information of upwards of 6.5 million people in the […]
Idaho Outlines Potential Grizzly Hunting Regulations
Last week the Idaho Department of Fish and Game proposed a number of regulations surrounding a potential grizzly bear hunt if the bears wind up being removed from the endangered species list in the coming year. The regulations, now open for public comment, would allow hunting in the eastern region of the state, closely […]
Idaho Man Convicted of Poaching Bighorn Sheep, Gets Jail and Lifetime Hunting Ban
Idaho Fish and Game Conservation officers stumbled upon the carcass of a bighorn sheep last November while patrolling the Salmon River. Up on the riverbank, the officers noticed someone camping and promptly approached the man, who reportedly had blood on his hands and forearms. After brief questioning, Paul Cortez of Nampa, Idaho admitted to […]
Idaho Hunters Rescue Elk Calf from Muddy Wallow
Backcountry elk hunting in west-central Idaho, two men jumped a bull and a few cows while scouting mud holes and scanning the horizon. To their dismay, something was left behind. Jeff McConnell and Brant Hoover, from Boise, heard the distinct sound of a mother elk calling for her young. “What we didn’t notice was a […]
Idaho Hunters Deliver Highest Whitetail Harvest on Record in 2015
Idaho hunters shattered the previous record of 29,800 harvested deer with 2015’s harvest numbers. Hunters in the state took 30,568 whitetail deer in 2015, which Clearwater Regional wildlife biologist Dave Koehler said surprised him, considering Idaho had experienced warmer than usual temperatures in the fall season. There were a total of 151,799 deer hunters in […]