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- Survey Finds That Wyoming’s New Shed Hunting Regs Are a Hit with Locals 👏
Survey Finds That Wyoming’s New Shed Hunting Regs Are a Hit with Locals 👏
+ Arkansas youth clean up on gobblers, Montana stripping away non-res landowner rights, $5K reward in Maine and a grizz takes on 11 wolves
Welcome to the Wednesday edition of the newsletter. If you’re still with us, that means you’ve made it to the middle of yet another week.
With that said, let’s all take a minute to grab a coffee or whiskey and get this mid-week dispatch out the door.
Here's what's worth reading about this morning:
America Residents first - Wyoming’s new regs are well received 👏
The kids are alright - Arkansas youth are blasting birds 🦃
An end to preferential treatment? - Montana bill might strip away some non-res landowner benefits 🧾
$5K reward - Maine officials offering cash on the dash for info on poached deer 🦌
Guilty - Kalispell poacher convicted on 7 criminal counts 🧑⚖️
King no more - Think grizzlies still own Yellowstone? Maybe not…🐺
NO LONGER A FREE FOR ALL
SURVEY FINDS THAT WYOMING’S NEW SHED HUNTING REGS ARE A HIT WITH THE LOCALS
As the first western state out of the gate to introduce some originally controversial new regulations around shed hunting, a recent poll is indicating that state lawmakers made the right move.
In an unprecedented move, Wyoming lawmakers introduced legislation in 2023 that would require all out-of-state shed hunters to not only acquire a conservation stamp to chase down discarded bone, but that would also require them to give local residents a seven-day head start on the action.
The news of the legislation sent shockwaves across the west, as shed-seekers reeled at the fact that they were up against even steeper odds of cashing in on their spring finds.
In a follow-up to the controversy surrounding the Wyoming bill, University of California-Berkeley PhD candidate Sam Maher, who’s been studying antler hunting in Wyoming since 2023, put out a survey to over 300 shed hunters in an attempt to get a general idea of how the new regs have been received…
QUICK HITS // FROM AROUND THE WEB
Young guns post another increase in Arkansas youth turkey harvest: Hunters aged 6 to 15 enjoyed one of the best Arkansas youth turkey hunts over the weekend, checking 1,443 gobblers, an increase of 22 percent over last year’s youth turkey hunt results. Read the full story.
PA Game Commission Approves 2025-26 Hunting and Trapping Seasons: The Pennsylvania Board of Game Commissioners gave final approval to the 2025-26 hunting and trapping seasons and bag limits. The adopted seasons and bag limits contain a handful of significant changes compared to 2024-25. Read the full story.
Minnesota's spring turkey hunting season begins this week. Here's what you need to know: It's time to get ready, hunters: Minnesota's spring turkey hunting season is only days away. Here's what you should know before you go. Read the full story.
Bill advances to end preference to nonresident landowners for big-game hunting licenses: House Bill 907 strikes portions of House Bill 635, which narrowly passed the Legislature two years ago. HB 635 established a new nonresident preference pool program that effectively guaranteed nonresident landowners with 2,500 acres of land access to a big-game combination license good for one elk and one deer. Read the full story.
$5,000 Reward offered for info on who shot Swanville deer, left it to die: Maine Operation Game Thief, working with the Maine Warden Service, is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person/persons responsible for the illegal shooting and wounding of a deer in Swanville, according to an April 10, social media release. Read the full story.
Kalispell Man Convicted of Poaching White-tailed Deer in North Fork Area: A 30-year-old Kalispell man was found guilty of seven criminal counts related to poaching crimes committed in November 2023, according to a Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks (FWP) news release. Read the full story.
VIDEO // SOME THINGS JUST HAVE TO BE SEEN
🐻 What does it take to move the king of Yellowstone off a bison carcass? It looks as though the answer to that question is 11-or-so gray wolves. Watch this incredible footage as this big ol’ grizz thinks he can take them, but eventually takes the path of least resistance and let’s them have it.
Incredible…
HUMPDAY MEME // YOU’RE A DISAPPOINTMENT
WANDERINGS // A SFW GLIMPSE OF OUR BROWSER HISTORY
Before we had to set backup passwords for our passwords, could use our face as ID to unlock our phones or select all the photos that had motorcycles in them to prove that we weren’t a robot, folks actually had to fold a letter in a certain manner and stamp it with wax in order for it be encrypted and secure. If I am sitting in a hunting blind, I can hear a mouse sneeze from a mile away, but put me in a crowded room and I can’t hear a damn thing. And while the jury is still out on whether or not that’s a bad thing (depends on the room), this trick apparently helps you hear better in noisy environments. Could the reason you are constantly waking up in the middle of the night be because it’s the only time of day that your mind is quiet? Some seem to think it’s the best time to do some deep thinking. And the cookies that were so damn good they were served to five different presidents.
EYE CANDY // PICTURES > WORDS
One day they’ll wonder where I went. It will be somewhere like this…
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