Local park is available for pheasant hunting (Lake County News-Sun)
Abderholden: It seems to me that it has been a long time since Chain O' Lakes State Park had hunting permits available for pheasant. If you didn't get in the first lottery, you were out of luck unless you could find someone who was missing part of their group the day of the hunt.

GILROY / Poacher with over 300 birds convicted / Hunter caught with ducks, geese, even a swan and a crane (San Francisco Chronicle)
California game wardens say they've bagged the biggest bird poacher they've seen in modern times - and they warn that with hard economic times pressing down everywhere, there will be more to come. Peter Ignatius Ciraulo of Gilroy was convicted Nov. 14 in...

Wind, wings and waterfowl (video below) (Monticello Times)
Ride along in an airboat as U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Wildlife Biologist Nick Palaia conducts a waterfowl survey of Pelican Lake, a designated wildlife lake. Palaia covers every square foot of the wetlands' perimeter to take the count.

Hunt site set up for disabled (Billings Gazette)
HELENA - Part of a ranch south of Missoula has been outfitted with two wheelchair-accessible duck blinds and will be open to waterfowl hunting by people with disabilities.

Oregon Recreation Report (Lebanon Express)
The Oregon Recreation Report (fishing, hunting viewing), updated Nov. 12 by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife

Questions/Answers (Inland Valley Daily Bulletin)
Questions and answers on Daily Bulletin stories from readers like you. A lack of new migrants from the north and unseasonably warm weather have just about shut down the waterfowl hunting at most Southern California public hunting areas.

Hunting preserve at lake sought (The State)
State natural-resources officials hope to develop a 400-acre preserve for waterfowl hunting on the western tip of Lake Murray. South Carolina Electric & Gas Co., the lake’s manager, is trying to buy land adjoining a tract it owns to create the site. The site is on a six-mile stretch of the upper arm of the lake between bridges on S.C. 121 and S.C. 395. The preserve would be in an area that the ...

Area hunter drowns (The Daily Iberian)
CATAHOULA — A 10-year-old tried desperately to save his father from drowning after the 36-year-old duck hunter fell out of his fishing boat Saturday morning, but the weight became unbearable and the boy was forced to kiss his father goodbye and swim to land for help, a family member said.

Tale of two rivers (Sonoma Index-Tribune)
I took a couple of days off this week and headed north with some local fly-fishers to check out the steelhead action on the Trinity River and the Sacramento River. The weather was too perfect. By now there should be a lot more rain and cold replenishing our state's northern watersheds.