Whitetail Deer Hunting News

Virginia establishes a new apprentice hunting license that will let people "test drive" hunting

Richmond, VA — Virginians interested in learning how to hunt, and Virginia hunters eager to share their sport with friends and family, now have a program that will make it easier for people new to hunting to give the sport a "test drive." The General Assembly has passed and Governor Tim Kaine has signed into law the companion bills that establish an apprentice hunting license. This new license will benefit people, regardless of age, who have not hunted before, but are interested in learning about hunting.

Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) is a naturally occurring disease of the brain and nervous system in deer, elk, and moose. CWD belongs to the family of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE) that attacks the brain of deer and elk, producing small lesions that eventually result in death. Concerns over CWD shouldn’t stop you from enjoying the hunting season, as CWD has not been found in Delaware and has not been shown to be transmissible to humans

Chronic Wasting Disease, more commonly referred to as CWD, is a disease that infects white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virgianianus), mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus), elk (Cervus elaphus), and moose (Alces alces). CWD is related to other transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) diseases that include scrapie in sheep, mad cow disease in cattle, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob (CJD) disease in humans

A table of Deleware Public Hunting Area Locations by county and zone

Tables of harvest by weapon, type if deer, registration method ...

Delaware's White-tailed Deer

It’s more than a trivia answer that Delaware is the only state with “deer” in its very name. And a lot of deer are located today within the state of Delaware, too.

The Delaware Hunter Education Program is committed to putting safe, ethical and educated hunters in the field. The program requires anyone born after January 1, 1967, to satisfactorily complete a Basic Hunter Education Course before obtaining a Delaware Hunting license.

As springtime calls people and snakes alike to the outdoors, encounters with snakes become inevitable.

The Department of Fish and Game (DFG) has scheduled 12 statewide clinics in 2008 to educate hunters on advanced hunting and wilderness survival skills. The clinics are designed to take the hunter or outdoors person a step beyond basic hunting and wilderness skills.

Rain, snowpack, runoff and green-up are terrific news for Arizona’s wildlife
All the winter precipitation, snowpack, runoff and associated green-up are combining to create a favorable outlook for Arizona’s wildlife this year – especially small game.