SUBMITTED NEWS RELEASE RENO, Nev. — Due to a decline in turkey population numbers, low hunter success, and based on the recommendation of the Nevada Department of Wildlife (NDOW), the Nevada Board of Wildlife Commissioners closed the 2010 fall turkey season at its meeting in Ely on Saturday. “Turkey populations in areas that have...
Read more »
SUBMITTED NEWS RELEASE Hunters have a long history of helping state wildlife agencies manage wildlife populations. They routinely serve as extended eyes and ears for wildlife biologists by reporting their observations while in the field and dutifully completing and returning various harvest questionnaires and season surveys. Aaron Hiller, a lucky southern Nevada hunter, recently...
Read more »
The Sagebrush Chapter of Trout Unlimited announces the beginning of the 2011 Kroening Endowment grant application cycle. The Sagebrush Chapter, through the Kroening Endowment, annually funds conservation, research and education projects that are shown to benefit the coldwater fisheries in and around northern Nevada. In January 2010, the Sagebrush Chapter funded four projects totaling...
Read more »
SUBMITTED NEWS RELEASE RENO, Nev. — Ben Miller of the United States Department of Agriculture – Animal Plant Health Inspection Service, Wildlife Services Division (USDA – APHIS, Wildlife Services) has won the Nevada Board of Wildlife Commissioner’s 2009 Wayne E. Kirch Conservation award. Miller’s commitment to Nevada’s wildlife resources will be recognized during the...
Read more »
SUBMITTED NEWS RELEASE ELKO, Nev. — The newly formed Mule Deer Restoration Committee is set to hold its second meeting in Elko Thursday, April 15, beginning at noon in the Nevada Department of Wildlife (NDOW) office on 60 Youth Center Road. A teleconference phone will be set up at the 1100 Valley Road Headquarters...
Read more »
SUBMITTED NEWS RELEASE RENO, Nev. — Hunters interested in applying for Nevada’s big game tags, can begin online application at 8 a.m. on Friday, March 19, when the online applications go live on www.huntnevada.com. Hunters that applied online in the past will be sent a postcard reminding them it is time to apply. Those...
Read more »
SUBMITTED NEWS RELEASE Today the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) announced its decision on the petition for listing greater sage-grouse. The decision was “warranted but precluded” which would place greater sage-grouse on the list of “candidate species” across its range in the 11 western states and two provinces. In addition, the USFWS...
Read more »
SUBMITTED NEWS RELEASE RENO, Nev. — Like many communities across the West, those in Nevada have seen residential and commercial development reach into wild lands. As it has elsewhere, that development has had a direct impact on numerous wildlife species and their habitats. Ironically, while some species suffer from the impacts of urban development...
Read more »
With winter storms dropping snow in the high country, the holiday season is an excellent time to take the kids outside for some snowy fun. It’s also a good time to teach the kids, and anyone else who’s interested, about Nevada’s wildlife.
Read more »
Nevada Department of Wildlife (NDOW) game wardens are investigating a rash of illegally killed big-game animals around the Reno area over the past month, and are seeking the public’s help to solve these poaching cases. “We’ve been swamped,” said Rob Buonamici, chief game warden at NDOW. “Between many cases locally and multiple poachings near...
Read more »
