MADISON, WI -- Preliminary estimates from the early Canada goose hunting season in Wisconsin show that hunter success was up, with this year’s harvest exceeding last year’s total. State wildlife officials say approximately 22,095 Canada geese were harvested this fall from Sept. 1 through 15.

OLYMPIA, WA - The application deadline has been extended until Oct. 17 for hunters interested in participating in the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife's (WDFW) public-safety cougar removal program.

The deadline was extended two weeks to give hunters more time to apply for the special permits, which allow hunters the use of dogs to remove cougars in selected areas of the state, said Sean Carrell, WDFW problem wildlife coordinator.

But wildlife officials say that makes him a good neighbor to the black bears that share the mountains, especially this year, when a late freeze and drought across the West have drastically reduced their natural fare of berries and acorns.

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ATHENS, Texas—Texas Parks and Wildlife Department will begin accepting entries into the Budweiser ShareLunker program October 1, 2007.

Anyone legally catching a 13-pound or bigger largemouth bass from Texas waters, public or private, between October 1 and April 30 may submit the fish to the Budweiser ShareLunker program by calling program manager David Campbell at (903) 681-0550 or paging him at (888) 784-0600 and leaving a phone number including area code. Fish will be picked up by TPWD personnel within 12 hours.

MADISON – Gypsy moth populations have been increasing to damaging levels in parts of Wisconsin, according to state forestry officials, who stress that this is the best time of year for landowners to determine if trees on their property could be defoliated by this pest next summer, and if so, to determine the best course of action to address the problem.

“Hot, dry weather this summer favored gypsy moth survival, and populations of the pest increased to levels that threaten significant tree damage in many counties next summer,” according to Andrea Diss-Torrance, Gypsy Moth Program Coordinator with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Forestry Division. Counties where the gypsy moth outbreak could be significant include, Adams, Columbia, Dane, Juneau, Kenosha, Marathon, Marinette, Milwaukee, Portage, Rock, Racine, Sauk, Walworth and Wood.

The DWR released many of the chukars in areas where biologists have constructed game bird water guzzlers. Chukars were also released in areas where populations have been affected by the dry conditions in Utah this year.