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• Related meeting and function requests being accepted for 72nd North American Conference

  Created: Saturday, 09 September 2006 18:00

  Organizations, agencies, committees and individuals that wish to hold meetings, receptions or other functions at the 72nd North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference are urged to contact the Wildlife Management Institute as soon as possible. ...

• Waterfowl gain reprieve from plan to expand oil and gas development in Alaska

  Created: Saturday, 09 September 2006 18:00

  A preliminary decision by a federal judge may derail U.S. Department of the Interior plans to begin oil and gas leasing later this month in a vast wetland complex around the largest lake on Alaska's North Slope, reports the Wildlife Management Institute....

• Matt Dunfee to join WMI

  Created: Saturday, 09 September 2006 18:00

  Joining the Wildlife Management Institute (WMI) this month, as Conservation Program Specialist, is Matthew C. Dunfee. Matt will work in the Institute's Washington, DC headquarters....

• Antis take a shot at the mourning dove hunting season in Michigan

  Created: Saturday, 09 September 2006 18:00

  A decade ago, Michigan voters overwhelmingly passed a ballot initiative requiring the management of wildlife to be on the basis of sound science. Based on sound science and with go ahead from the state legislature and governor, the Michigan Department of ...

• McGraw Wildlife Foundation extends the Conservation Leaders for Tomorrow program

  Created: Saturday, 09 September 2006 18:00

  Conservation Leaders for Tomorrow (CLfT)—a program to inform nonhunting university students with majors in wildlife and other natural resources about the role and values of recreational hunting—will continue to be underwritten in part by the Max McGra...

• New CRP initiative in Prairie Pothole Region bodes well for ducks

  Created: Saturday, 09 September 2006 18:00

  The USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) recently announced a new initiative aimed at bolstering duck production in the Prairie Pothole Region. The Duck Nesting Habitat Initiative (CP-37) has a target of 100,000 acres, including 40,000 acres slated for each of ...

• Oil shale potential in the West rises once again

  Created: Saturday, 09 September 2006 18:00

  Because of rising oil prices, development of oil shale on public lands in the West is coming closer to reality. The U.S. Department of the Interior has issued an "advance notice of proposed rulemaking" concerning the establishment of a commercial oil shal...

• Workshop on aquatic nuisance species slated for North American Conference

  Created: Saturday, 09 September 2006 18:00

  The aquatic nuisance species (ANS) issue is a complex and costly ecological, business, policy, legislative and political issue. It also is a nightmare in terms of law enforcement and communications. To address the issue and identify means of coordinating ...

• Exhibiting at the 72nd North American Conference

  Created: Saturday, 09 September 2006 18:00

  The Wildlife Management Institute invites companies, agencies and organizations that are interested in exhibiting at the upcoming 72nd North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference to contact Jennifer Rahm to request an exhibitor's registration...

• U.S. citizens strongly back hunting and fishing

  Created: Saturday, 09 September 2006 18:00

  A nationwide survey conducted by Responsive Management of Harrisonburg, Virginia, found that support for hunting and fishing has remained strong over the past decade, with approximately every 3 of 4 Americans approving of legal hunting and more than 9 of ...