Wyoming Game and Fish

SHERIDAN, Wyo. (AP) — The Wyoming Game and Fish Department is reminding people who find young animals this spring to leave newborn wildlife alone even if they appear to be abandoned.

The agency says most animal mothers hide their young and return to them periodically to nurse

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Wyoming Game and Fish Department Director Scott Talbott says the agency faces another round of budget cuts unless lawmakers increase its funding. Amy Richards reports. Doug Randall reports that Sen. Mike Enzi will delay until next week, introducing a bill that would prohibit the federal government from withholding severance tax monies from 35 states including Wyoming. Click past the jump to listen to Wyoming Radio News. 

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The Wyoming Game and Fish Department will hold a public meeting at 6 p.m. March 27 at the Cheyenne Game and Fish Headquarters to address hunting-season proposals for big game, small game, game birds, waterfowl, and bison in 2013. At

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Wyoming Game and Fish recently distributed posters in Laramie with graphic images from two poaching incidents accompanied by information about the penalties in each case. Both incidents on the poster involved WyoTech students.

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The National Park Service is taking public comment on a plan to reconstruct the aging Isa Lake bridge at Craig Pass in Yellowstone National Park. Doug Randall reports. The Wyoming Game and Fish Department is holding public meetings this week on the 2013 hunting season in Western Wyoming. Click past the jump to listen to Wyoming Radio News.

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The Wyoming Supreme Court has upheld permits issued by the state and Converse County allowing construction of two wind farms in the Laramie Range. Doug Randall reports. The Wyoming Game and Fish Department will no longer print the "Hunting Information and Application Booklet". But the information will be available online. Click past the jump to listen to Wyoming Radio News. 

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The Wyoming Game and Fish Department will begin accepting entries January 1, 2013 for the 2014 Wyoming conservation stamp art contest. Game and Fish spokesman Al Langston says each year the department selects a species to appear on more than 100,000 conservation stamps. This year's species is the Ruffed Grouse which is

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The Wyoming Game and Fish Department reminds hunters and anglers that 2012 conservation stamps and most 2012 hunting and fishing licenses expire on Dec. 31st.
The lone exception is that 2012 elk licenses will be valid in open areas in January due to the fact that a number of elk seasons extend into January. This year, the game and fish will continue to sell 2012 elk licenses through the online system, at all automated agent locations, and at all game and fish offices through Jan. 2013 for hunt areas with open seasons. A 2013 conservation stamp will be required for all licenses beginning Jan. 1, 2013, including those hunting on a 2012 elk license during the extended seasons.

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Hunters are alerted that Gray Wolf Hunt Area 6, the Jackson Management Unit in the Jackson area closed Oct. 20 at 2:30 pm.  The Wyoming Game and Fish Department says the area closed because the mortality quota of three wolves was reached. Wolf seasons close in hunt areas where the species is classified as a trophy game animal when the mortality quota is reached or when the season closes on Dec. 31, whichever comes first.

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Elk hunters who hold licenses in hunt areas 5 and 6 in the Iron Mountain area between Cheyenne and Laramie may apply for a permit that will allow access to a large amount of private lands in each hunt area access is available to holders of license types 1, 4, and 6 for areas 5 and 6 as well as holders of unused general licenses.

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