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Hunting in warm weather requires extra care to prevent meat from spoiling
While early season hunts can provide an excellent opportunity to harvest a big game animal, warm weather brings additional challenges when it comes to properly caring for game meat to prevent it from spoiling. The key to preserving meat in hot weather is to begin the cooling process as quickly as possible.
North Idaho Large Tract Property Reminders
The Large Tracts Program provides sportsmen and recreationists access to nearly one million acres of private timber land in Idaho. To keep these properties open and accessible to everyone requires that all users be respectful and adhere to the landowner’s needs and conditions to enter their lands.
2024 Deer & Elk Hunting Outlook
Everything deer and elk hunters need to know heading in to the 2024 big game season. Statewide, deer and elk hunting in Idaho is trending upward after a tough season in 2023.
Outdoor Funding Council Seeks Candidate Projects to Enhance Recreation in Idaho
For 2024, the council has $5 million to spend on capital projects (trails, bridges, campgrounds, etc.) that create or enhance outdoors access.
Wood River Valley black bears are back in town and finding residential garbage
Idaho Fish and Game, Magic Valley Region continues to receive multiple reports of black bears visiting homes and neighborhoods throughout the Wood River Valley. Many of the reports are of black bears accessing residential garbage carts that have not been secured in a garage or locked storage area.
Fall Chinook salmon and coho salmon update 8/29/2024
In this update, I will try to answer the questions people have been asking most frequently including what are the runs looking like, what percent of the runs are being trapped at Lower Granite Dam for broodstock, and what fishing rules do you need to follow if you have both an Idaho and Washington fishing license and would like to fish the boundary waters and/or both states during the same day.
Heading out hunting? Here's what you need to know about CWD rules
With general archery seasons for deer and elk running Aug. 30 through Sept. 30 in many units in the state, Idaho Fish and Game officials remind hunters about special chronic wasting disease rules to help test for and manage the disease.
Rainbow trout stocking schedule for September 2024 in the Magic Valley Region
Hatchery personnel from Fish and Game’s Magic Valley Region will be stocking approximately 35,550 10-12” catchable-sized rainbow trout in September. All stocking dates and numbers of fish are approximate.
Idaho Species Catalog
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