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Mia Anstine and Lea Leggitt share secret outdoor destinations and talk grizzly bears on this week's MAC Outdoors Podcast. The duo divulges secret high country destinations, discuss grizzly attacks, and the news of the delisting of the bears in the Yellowstone area. If you’ve never been to Southwest Colorado you definitely need to add it …
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If you pay attention, study, and research, you already know that hunters are major contributors to conservation efforts. With the help of regulations, all animal populations can and will thrive. Today we can cheer because we've saved a population of animals from extinction. This is great news. Yesterday the U.S. Department of Interior released the …
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Be bear aware when out and about this spring SANTA FE – People and wildlife are getting outdoors more often now that spring has arrived, and the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish is reminding everyone to be aware of the greater chance of encountering bears and other native wildlife. Males and young, …
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Learn to hunt bears at workshop in Ridgway, March 14 Ridgway, Colo. -- If you've ever wanted to hunt bears or if you want to improve your chances of harvesting one, plan to attend a workshop sponsored by Colorado Parks and Wildlife on March 14 in Ridgway. Bear populations are healthy in western Colorado, providing …
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Learn to hunt bears at workshop in Ridgway, March 14 MONTROSE, Colo. -- If you've ever wanted to hunt bears or if you want to improve your chances of harvesting one, plan to attend a workshop sponsored by Colorado Parks and Wildlife on March 14 in Ridgway. Bear populations are healthy in western Colorado, providing …
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We all run into people who become mentors in our lives. I'd never call it envy, but we want to to learn to be like them. I've made several friends while I've been on the Four Corners Safari Club board of directors. One now serves as president of the Pope and Young Club. He has taken the …
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Several urban areas of western Colorado have become inundated with black bears so for some it may sound simple to harvest one. The fact of the matter is you can't just shoot a bear in your neighborhood to fill your hunting tag. It would not be safe or ethical to discharging a gun at a …
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One thing that amazes me about people is their reaction to specific hunting photos. I may post one, two or three photos of a mule deer buck and receive kudos, but one photo of a three-hundred-pound bear and the reaction is quite a bit different. Why?! The primary reason people don’t like to see pictures …
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The Little Gal (LG) is a member of a club called Youth Hunter Education Challenge YHEC). It teaches kids hunting, responsibility, wildlife identification, orienteering and survival skills. Locally, our Safari Club International (SCI) chapter makes significant contributions to this youth program. At the 2012 SCI banquet we bought a hunt for two to Alberta, Canada. LG and …
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Friends, and sometimes strangers, ask why I tend buy a license(tag) for any season I am allowed, even if I may only get one day to hunt. Sometimes the odds are against me that the tag will be filled, but I purchase one just in-case I get to go hunt that species. There is another …
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