Information on hunting in the Western US http://www.huntthewest.com http://www.huntthewest.com/2010/WYunit61-1.php I'll be in Wyoming next week, hunting antelope in Unit 61, one of the fabled Red Desert units. http://www.huntthewest.com/2010/ORforecast.php The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife released its fall hunting forecast today. Based on surveys by staff biologists, the report offers hunters a good look at what to expect this fall. http://www.huntthewest.com/2010/IDcrash.php A helicopter carrying two Idaho Fish and Game fisheries biologists and a pilot crashed in Kamiah between 9:30 and 9:45 Tuesday morning, leaving three dead. http://www.huntthewest.com/2010/AZpoaching2.php The Arizona Game and Fish Department is asking for the public’s assistance in finding the person or persons responsible for the illegal killing of a bighorn sheep lamb along Highway 88 (also known as the Apache Trail), northeast of Apache Junction, on Tuesday, Aug. 24. At the time the department received the phone call, the bighorn sheep, though mortally wounded, was reportedly still alive. http://www.huntthewest.com/2010/ammo2.php I haven't been hearing as much about ammunition shortages as I was a year or so ago, but there are still some problems with supplies out there. http://www.huntthewest.com/2010/SnowGoose.php Could a bumper crop of snow geese be in the offing for waterfowl hunters this year? Dr. Robert “Rocky” Rockwell, a biology professor at City University of New York and one of North America’s leading authorities on snow geese, thinks so. http://www.huntthewest.com/2010/EPA.php On Friday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency denied a bold petition calling for a ban on the production and distribution of lead hunting ammunition. What will we do with the breathing room this has given us? http://www.huntthewest.com/2010/COsmallgame.php Small-game and upland hunters in Colorado can look forward to the debut of small game, fall turkey, and upland bird hunting seasons in the upcoming days and weeks. Time to buy my fall turkey tag. http://www.huntthewest.com/2010/KSregs.php Months after the deer application deadline and draw have already been complete, the Kansas 2010 hunting regulations are finally available. http://www.huntthewest.com/2010/NMantelope2.php After the ranch owner finally agrees to honor his contract and let me on the ranch, I stumble through the next series of obstacles ... specifically, there's not really any antelope. http://www.huntthewest.com/2010/AZspring.php The Arizona Game and Fish Department has released the 2011 spring hunting and drawing information for turkey, javelina, buffalo and bear. Electronic copies of the application form and regulation booklet are available online, but there is no online application process. http://www.huntthewest.com/2010/MTappeal.php Montana’s top wildlife official confirmed last week that his agency will appeal the recent district court ruling that returned the region’s recovered wolves to the federal endangered species list. Joe Maurier, director of Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, told a coalition of wildlife conservation and livestock groups that Montana has "a recovered wolf population and we will appeal." http://www.huntthewest.com/2010/CAdeer.php A new study is under way to determine why Black-tailed deer populations in some areas of northern California have declined over the past 20 years. Statewide, the harvest of black-tailed deer bucks has declined 46% from 1989 to 2009. http://www.huntthewest.com/2010/NMantelope.php A surprisingly complicated story of Texas politicians, iPhones, Game and Fish wildlife managers, and Longhorn cattle. A little about antelope hunting as well.