Missouri deer hunters remember days when they could pick and choose the deer they wanted to shoot. Now, they're lucky just to see deer. Any deer, let alone a big buck.
Each permit lets a hunter kill one male or bearded female turkey with bow and arrow in the archery season or with a shotgun in the shotgun season.
More than 10,000 hunters bought special tags to hunt bears during Vermont's first two-part bear season in 2013.
Minnesota's wolf season has closed more than a month early.
Preliminary figures show the number of deer hunted in Illinois is down this year.
Ever since Missouri discovered Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in 11 deer in captive operations in northeast Missouri in 2010 and 2011 and 10 deer in the nearby free-ranging herd, deer farms have been under fire.