Bucking a trend, sales of hunting and fishing licenses increased in California, according to a Sacremento Bee article that cites statistics from the state Department of Fish and Game. The increase for hunting, about 3 percent, is the first to stretch over two years since 1990. Although the state does not collect demographic information from license buyers that might indicate a trend, factors cited as potential causes of the increase include retiring baby boomers with more time to spend hunting and fishing, more women participants and a connection to the "eat local" movement that encourages finding sources of food close to home in order to benefit the environment.

[Read the rest of this article...]

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

[Read the rest of this article...]

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.

[Read the rest of this article...]

The Department of Fish and Game’s (DFG) Advanced Hunter Education will offer a bear hunting clinic for the first time beginning on March 1. The workshop will be held at the Ono Range in Shasta County, 15 miles west of Redding, and run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

[Read the rest of this article...]

Sacramento - The Department of Fish and Game (DFG) today announced that a year-long poaching investigation, dubbed Operation Bear Conduit, has resulted in the arrests of four people. The four individuals were charged with conspiracy to operate as hunting guides without valid guide licenses.

[Read the rest of this article...]

Four Charged with Conspiracy to Operate as Hunting Guides Without Valid Guide Licenses
Year-long poaching investigation leads to felony arrests

Sacramento - The Department of Fish and Game (DFG) today announced that a year-long poaching investigation, dubbed Operation Bear Conduit, has resulted in the arrests of four people.

[Read the rest of this article...]