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With animal lovers protesting the decision to open hunting season on bears, more than 3,500 people purchased bear hunting permits, even though the cap was just 320. Officials scheduled a week for the hunt, but by Sunday the high number of bears killed surprised hunting officials.

Indiana Conservation Officer Jonathon Boyd says 25-year-old Allie Carter of Avilla laid her 12-gauge shotgun on the ground without the safety on during a waterfowl hunt. Her dog then did the rest.

At the end of September, Montana, Fish, Wildlife and Parks had issued 1,747 roadkill salvage permits over the last two years to people all over the state who found an edible deer, moose, elk or antelope.

Four years after the brutal winter that caused an antelope die-off on a scale that hadn't been seen in decades in Montana, prairie pronghorn are rebounding, according to state Fish, Wildlife and Parks.

An Amish resident of central Pennsylvania is challenging the photo identification requirement to purchase a firearm, saying his religious beliefs prevent him from being photographed.

Brucellosis can cause young pregnant cattle, as well as elk, to abort. It's believed the most infectious materials come from birthing fluids and tissue. So keeping cattle and elk separated at the time the elk calve is thought to be key to controlling the spread of the disease.

Florida wildlife officials closed two regions after the first day of bear hunting after the areas met the limit on the number of bears allowed to be killed during the first statewide hunt in more than 20 years.

Nebraska officials have determined there will be no Nebraska mountain lion hunting season next year.

They say the carcasses are needed to help them collect data on bobcat populations in the state. The Bobcat Ecology Research Project is in its second and final year of data collection.

Hunters for the first time in more than 20 years will trudge through Florida woods to legally kill black bears.

A midlevel court has rejected a challenge to New York's new gun law, dismissing arguments it was pushed through the state Legislature improperly and that its restrictions violate the Second Amendment.

Tests on more than 750 ducks shot by Minnesota hunters this fall have turned up no signs of the kind of bird flu that devastated the Midwest poultry industry earlier this year.

Officials in the eastern Illinois community of Tolono are dropping the idea of allowing an organized coyote hunt to control the animal's population.

Deer hunting in urban and suburban areas where deer are accustomed to people being around presents a whole new set of challenges. Here's how to find and fool those wary whitetails close to home.

A group of hunting advocacy groups is suing Delta Airlines over its recent ban on transporting big game trophies from Africa.

Residents of southern Mississippi neighborhoods and cities have spotted coyotes roaming the area looking for pets to eat.

Three great archery games that will have shooters -- young and old -- wanting more.

Kevin Hoyt, the creator of “The Future of Hunting'' show connected with Aubree Hoster through a nonprofit whose mission is to send youths with a severe disability on a hunting or fishing trip.

In April, a commission increased the cougar harvest rate in 14 areas of the state as a way to ease tensions in communities over the state's growing wolf population. Gray wolves are endangered in Washington and cannot be hunted.

The Supreme Court's 2008 decision in District of Columbia v. Heller and the 2010 decision in McDonald v. Chicago focused mainly on the right to defend one's own home. Gun rights groups have failed repeatedly to get the justices to say how broadly the Second Amendment protects gun rights.