CWD Awareness Week is to help hunters and others who value Idaho’s wildlife learn and understand why managing the disease is critical to Idaho’s future, and the role hunters play in it. Everyone doing their part to help detect CWD and abide by rules pertaining to it will help manage the disease and preserve Idaho’s big game hunting heritage for future generations.
Yet another wildfire sprung up on Idaho’s dry and fire-prone wildlands, this time burning a portion of Idaho Fish and Game’s Boise River WMA. And the crappy part? It could have easily been avoided had a couple of hikers made better decisions about how to dispose of their toilet paper.
Idaho Power’s North Park Campground and boat ramp on C.J. Strike Reservoir will close from Oct. 1 through December while the company upgrades the docks between the park and the nearby U.S. Air Force Marina.
Idaho Fish and Game conservation officers are asking the public for any information they may have about a mule deer buck that was illegally shot north of Emmet, near Van Deusen Road in Unit 32.
Normally, Idaho Fish and Game’s weekly Hook and Bulletin podcast focuses on the previous weeks’ hunting, fishing, trapping, and conservation stories from around the Gem State. But this week, as we dive headlong into the fall big game hunting season and CWD Awareness Week, we’ve cooked up not one, but two bonus episodes of the Hook and Bulletin podcast to get you ready for your hunt.
The Snake River has received much acclaim as the go-to public land duck hunting destination in Idaho, but it’s certainly not the only place where hunters have an accessible place to hunt waterfowl. Southwest Idaho has four WMAs where waterfowl hunting can be excellent.
Idaho Fish and Game staff and volunteers in the Panhandle Region will be hosting a Youth Marksmanship Skills Workshop on Oct. 5 at the Farragut Shooting Range Center in Athol.
On Sept. 20, five Upper Columbia River sockeye salmon arrived at the MK Nature Center in Boise—and yes, they had a little help from the tanker truck. Come on down to the nature center and see these big fish for yourselves!