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Firearms Industry Rejects National Park Service Classification of Traditional Ammunition as a Health Threat
Offers to Work with NPS on Hunter Education Efforts

Arizona Big Game Super Raffle deadline extended to July 12
You still have a chance to win one of the nation’s most prestigious hunts -- the Arizona Big Game Super Raffle deadline for 2009 has been extended to July 12.

NEVADA HUNTERS CAN NOW RETURN TAGS FOR ANY REASON; RETAIN BONUS POINTS
You forgot to double check your application and now you have a big game tag for the wrong area. You got the hunt of a lifetime in Montana and now you can’t use your Nevada tag...

SLIGHT INCREASE IN BIG GAME TAGS
The Nevada Board of Wildlife Commissioners approved the allocation of 22,500 big game tags at its May 15-16 meeting in Reno, a one percent increase over 2008 tag allocations.

Arizona Game and Fish Department states its position with regard to advocacy group’s "Notice of Intent to Sue" over jaguar capture
On May 12, the Arizona Game and Fish Department received a Notice of Intent to Sue from the Center for Biological Diversity for what the Center claims are “violations of Section 9 of the Federal Endangered Species Act for taking jaguar.”

Arizona’s fall hunt application deadline is June 9
New this year: Pheasant applications now due the same day as fall deadline

Arizona Game and Fish extends moratorium limiting mountain lion predation management on the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge
As part of its continued efforts to restore the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge’s (NWR) struggling desert bighorn sheep herd, the Arizona Game and Fish Commission voted today, at its regularly scheduled meeting, to extend through July 31 the Department’s self-imposed moratorium on lethally removing offending lions captured and collared on the Refuge.

No CWD found in Arizona deer and elk testing
The Arizona Game and Fish Department reports lab tests found no detection of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in any of the 2,343 testable samples from hunter-harvested or road-killed deer and elk during Arizona’s 2008-09 hunting season.

RUNNIN’ WILD…FROM TED NUGENT
CMT AND BISCHOFF HERVEY ENTERTAINMENT PRESENT THE ULTIMATE BACKWOODS SURVIVAL SERIES WITH “RUNNIN’ WILD…FROM TED NUGENT” PREMIERING AUGUST 2009

Spring turkey hunters should be aware of wolves’ presence
Hunters have played a significant role over the past 100 years in recovering and reestablishing wildlife populations across our country, ranging from white-tailed deer to wild turkey...

Kids get opportunity to gobble up the passion for hunting wild turkey
Juniors-only spring turkey tags now offered over-the-counter

State agrees to investigate new information about jaguar’s capture
At the request yesterday of the Arizona Game and Fish Department, the Arizona Attorney General’s Office today agreed to take the lead in reviewing the facts and circumstances related to the initial capture of the jaguar known as Macho B.

Elk and antelope draw is complete; results are available
The 2009 drawing for Arizona elk and antelope hunt permit-tags has been completed, and the 117,873 applicants can now visit the Arizona Game and Fish Department’s Web site at www.azgfd.gov/draw to see if they have been drawn. Be prepared to provide your department identification number, plus your birth date, to access your specific draw information.

APPLY NOW FOR NEVADA’S BIG GAME TAGS
On Friday, March 20, the Nevada Department of Wildlife (NDOW) began accepting big game tag applications for the 2009 – 2010 hunting season. The deadline for receipt of applications is 5 p.m. on Monday, April 20.

Want to shoot pistols, rifles, shotguns and more? - Then Aim for the AGFD Outdoor Expo this weekend!
Want the opportunity to shoot the new high-powered .416 Alaskan Rifle just made for taking down a grizzly bear or other large game animal, but is engineered to be lighter and shorter than magnums?

Record-Breaking Turnout at College Clay Target Championships
It may not get the amount of attention that college basketball's March Madness receives, but for a record 37 schools and 337 clay target shooters, it is the biggest event of the year.

Air gun range improvements offer safe introduction to growing shooting sport
After hearing this news, Ralphie, the 8-year-old boy from the movie A Christmas Story, would be grabbing his trusty Red Rider BB gun and fixing his sights on the Ben Avery Shooting Facility’s Air Gun Range – and he won’t have to worry about shooting his eye out.

Arizona Game and Fish offers “public forums” to discuss planned recommendations for the 2009-10 fall hunting regulations
The Arizona Game and Fish Department is bringing a new format to the fall hunt recommendation process by offering six public forums across the state to allow constituents an opportunity to provide input to regional biologists before the hunt recommendations are presented to the commission for the 2009-10 hunting seasons.

Ten tips when applying for elk and/or antelope hunting permits
If you have visions of elk steaks on the grill or sending those trophy horns of a 70-class pronghorn to the taxidermist, don’t forget the most important step – applying for a hunt permit-tag before the deadline.

Reminder: Arizona Hunting seasons that carry over into January require a 2009 hunting license
Many of Arizona’s hunting seasons for big game and small game extend into the New Year. However, hunting licenses expire at the end of the calendar year...

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