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Game and Fish Seek Help On Another Casper Area Poach

By Karen Snyder October 31, 2011

Another deer carcass was found west of Casper last week, and while they don't know if its related, officials at the Wyoming Game Fish Department say it mirrors a poaching event that occurred in September where a deer was killed and abandoned

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Category: Casper News, Crime, Wildlife Tags: poaching, Robin Kepple, Wyoming Game and Fish Department

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Hunters Accidentally Shoot Cow

By Associated Press October 31, 2011

RIVERTON, Wyo. (AP) — Authorities in Fremont County are looking for two men suspected of shooting a cow.

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Category: Associated Press, Wildlife, Wyoming News Tags: hunting

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Wyoming Hunter in Good Condition Following Bear Attack

By Associated Press October 31, 2011

MOOSE, Wyo. (AP) — Authorities say a hunter who was attacked by a bear while hunting in Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park is in good condition.

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Category: Associated Press, Wildlife, Wyoming News Tags: Grizzly Bear Attack

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Explorer Catfish Still Swims, Maybe [AUDIO]

By Daniel Sandoval October 25, 2011

The Wyoming Game and Fish Department released news of a channel catfish that traveled 415 miles from its home in Clear Creek near Buffalo to a place near Billings, Montana.

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Category: Weird News, Wildlife, Wyoming News Tags: 415-mile journey, Billings, Buffalo, channel catfish, Clear Creek, Warren Mischke, Wyoming Game and Fish

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Channel Catfish Swims Epic Journey

By Associated Press October 24, 2011

The Wyoming Game and Fish Department says it has documented a 415-mile journey by a channel catfish.

The agency tagged the catfish in June 2007 just below the Kendrick Diversion Dam on Clear Creek east of Sheridan

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Category: Associated Press, Weird News, Wildlife, Wyoming News Tags: 415-mile journey, channel catfish, Pompey's Pillar, Sheridan, Wyoming Game and Fish

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National Wolf Awareness Week In Wyoming

By Karen Snyder October 17, 2011

Learning how to howl like a wolf and how to identify wolf tracks are examples of educational events for this week's National Wolf Awareness Week. In Wyoming, the state is on the cusp of finally taking over management of grey wolves

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Category: Wildlife, Wyoming News Tags: National Wolf Awareness Week, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife management, Wyoming Game and Fish Department

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Grizzly, 2 Cubs Removed from Cody Area By Game and Fish

By Associated Press October 17, 2011

CODY (AP) — The Wyoming Game and Fish Department has trapped and moved a grizzly bear and her two cubs from a ranch near Cody.

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Category: Associated Press, Wildlife, Wyoming News Tags: grizzly bears, Wyoming Game and Fish Department

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Grizzlies Force Road Closure

By Associated Press October 12, 2011

WILSON, Wyo. (AP) — Grand Teton National Park has closed portions of the road between Moose and Wilson because of the presence of feeding grizzly bears.

Bears are feeding on chokecherry bushes and other plants in the area

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Category: Associated Press, Wildlife, Wyoming News Tags: Grand Teton Park, grizzly bears, moose, Wilson

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Wolves Fall Behind Endangered Species Pack [AUDIO]

By Daniel Sandoval October 6, 2011

Wyoming's governor is encouraged by the progress in the getting rid of federal protection of wolves in the state.

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Category: Agriculture, Wildlife, Wyoming News Tags: Director Dan Ashe, Gov. Matt Mead, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, wolves, Wyoming Legislature

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Woman Survives Deer Attack

By Shauna Bales October 3, 2011

An Idaho man and woman are recuperating from a weekend attack by a mule deer. The woman was walking near her home near Logan, Utah on Friday morning when she was attacked by a buck mule deer. She was knocked to the ground and the deer began raking her body and gored her legs with its antlers

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Category: Wildlife Tags: Idaho, mule deer